CELTIC AND IRISH

BANSHEE

• Woman of the fairy mounds
• Female spirit of Irish mythology
• Seen as a omen of death and
• Messenger from the underworld

BARGHEST

• Heard of more in North of England, Yorkshire
• A legendary monstrous black dog with
• huge teeth and claws

LEPRECHAUN

• Type of fairy in Irish mythology
• Form of a old man with a red or green coat, looks like a dwarf
• Enjoys mischief and making shoes, also storing gold coins

SELICIE

• They look like and live with seals
• They shed their skin and become human on land

SALMON OF KNOWLEDGE

• Creature figuring in the Fenian
• Cycle, a fish or immortal who
• can be eaten but is still alive

POOKA

• Creature in Ireland and Wales
• RAID of fairy folk and a adroit
• shape changer, in a variety of
• forms (horse, rabbit, goat,dog,
• goblin)

DONN CUPILNGE

• The brown bull of Cooley, part of
• Ulster Cycle, Extreme fertile stud
• bull, involved in the cattle raid of Cooley

FINNBHENNACH

• The white head bull, from the Ulster Cycle
• Extremely fertile bull, owned by King
• Ailill of Connacht

DENNUS DUE

• Name came from Dionysus,
• Greek God of wine, represents not
• only intoxicating power of wine, but also
• Social and beneficial influences

DULLAHAN

• A headless rider on a black horse
• who carries his or her own head
• under one arm

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