Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Badb/ Odva/ Badb Catha" | Irish | A goddess of war |
God name "Baile of the Honeyed Speech" | Irish | The god of Blarney |
Goddess name "Ban Chuideachaidh Moire" | Ireland | Old Goddess who appears in modern Irish legends as the midwife who åśśisted the Christian Virgin Mary with her birth, and was also a title applied to St. Bridget. A once forgotten goddess of childbirth. Ireland |
Spirit name "Banshee" | Ireland | Grey Lady of death who haunts certain Irish families. A female spirit in Gaelic folklore believed to presage, by wailing, a death in a family. Ireland |
"Banshee or Benshee" | Irish | An Irish fairy attached to a house. |
Goddess name "Bariba" | Celtic / Irish | Fertility goddess. One of the aspects of the MORRIGAN. A name of the Sovereignty of Ireland to whom the king was married in symbolic ceremony. Also a goddess of war capable of changing shape from girl to hag, and into birds and animals.See also BADB, ERIU, Fodla, Medb and MAEVE.... |
Goddess name "Beçúɱa" | Irish | A goddess who ruled over magical boats |
Goddess name "Boann (she of the white cows)" | Celtic / Irish | River goddess. The local goddess of the river Boyne. She is one of the consorts of the DAGDA, alternatively of a minor local deity Elcmar, cuckolded by the Dagda who sent him away on an errand for nine months. The mother of Angus mac Og.See also AENGUS.... |
Goddess name "Boann/ Boannan Boyne" | Irish | A goddess of fertility & the river Boyne |
Goddess name "Branwen/ Branwyn" | Irish / Manx / Wales | The Venus of the Northern Seas & a goddess of love |
God name "Bres Macelatha" | Celtic / Irish | vegetation god. The son of ERIU and of the Fomorian king Elatha. He is therefore part TUATHA DE DANAAN by parentage but, having become Lord of Ireland, he sides with the Fomorians in the Battle of Moytura and is defeated. Concerned with the supply of food from the land.... |
Goddess name "Brigit" | Irish | A fertility goddess |
Goddess name "Caillech/ Cailleach/ Carlin/ Mala/ Liath" | Irish / Scotland / Manx | A goddess of Winter & the goddess in her destroyer aspect |
Deities name "Canola" | Ireland | One of the oldest of the Irish deities, invented the harp from the sinews of a gutted whale. Ireland |
Goddess name "Cathubodua" | Celtic / Continental / European | war goddess. Known only from inscriptions and probably comparable with the Irish Celtic Badb Catha.See also MORRIGAN.... |
"Cluricaune" | Irish | An elf of evil disposition who usually appears as a wrinkled old man, and has knowledge of hidden treasures. Irish |
Goddess name "Crobh Dearg/ Crove Dairg" | Irish | A war goddess |
God name "Dagda/ Daghdha/ Eochaidh/ Ollathair" | Irish | The god of death, rebirth & long life |