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Independent folklorist, author of nonfiction about irish myth & fairies and fiction (UF & HF), amateur translator of old/middle Irish, general trouble maker
@germoorkensbyrne.bsky.socialReposted by @morgandaimler.bsky.socialHad a great time chatting to other @moonbooksci.bsky.social authors @morgandaimler.bsky.social Lora O'Brien and @rachelpatterson.bsky.social about Samhain myths misinformation and real Traditions
youtu.be/8iBtpuKcAbI?... #pagan #witch #samhain #Halloween
@morgandaimler.bsky.social"..there may be ghosts or there may not; but if there are none there are fairies, and they are worse." - Quote from man reminiscing about a fairy encounter, early 19th century, from The Prince Edward Islands magazine 1902
@morgandaimler.bsky.socialExcellent review of The Wild Hunt
facingnorth.net/books/refere...
@morgandaimler.bsky.socialLovely review of Tales of the Tuatha Dé Danann volume 2
Second one down at the link
@morgandaimler.bsky.social"Like a fairy's intrinsic autonomy, such propensity for arbitrary or illogical behavior is decidedly un-human, and when authors humanize their fairies this quality is nearly always lost." - J Wade, 'Fairies in Medieval Romance'
@morgandaimler.bsky.social"Find out who you are, then do it on purpose." - Dolly Parton
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@ucclibrary.bsky.socialReposted by @morgandaimler.bsky.socialUCC Library invites you to "Recording the Past: The Annals of Inisfallen and the Making of Irish History" one day conference on 18 September.
Explore the legacy of this remarkable medieval manuscript with expert speakers from UCC, Oxford and Edinburgh. libcal.ucc.ie/event/4589456
@morgandaimler.bsky.socialI touch on it in my new changeling book (not published yet), but it deserves further exploration.
@morgandaimler.bsky.socialThe idea that these women were changelings may have been how their community understood the symptoms they presented and may explain stories of women being "rescued" and returned (as the symptoms resolved).
@morgandaimler.bsky.socialSome day I will write a paper about the possibility that new mothers accused of being changelings were actually suffering from post partum depression or psychosis.
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