Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Branwen" | Ireland / Welsh / Manx | Venus of the Northern Seas and a goddess of love. Ireland / Welsh / Manx |
Goddess name "Branwen/ Branwyn" | Irish / Manx / Wales | The Venus of the Northern Seas & a goddess of love |
Goddess name "Caillech aka Cailleach" | Ireland / Scotland / Manx | Goddess of Winter and the goddess in her destroyer aspect. Ireland / Scotland / Manx |
Goddess name "Caillech/ Cailleach/ Carlin/ Mala/ Liath" | Irish / Scotland / Manx | A goddess of Winter & the goddess in her destroyer aspect |
Goddess name "Corchen" | Ireland / Manx | Ancient snake Goddess of which very little is known. Ireland / Manx |
God name "Easal" | Ireland / Manx | God of abundance and prosperity. He gave the sons of Tuirrean seven magic pigs, which reappeared the day after they were eaten. Ireland / Manx |
Goddess name "Eibhir" | Ireland | Goddess of the Sun, described as being a yellow-haired "stranger from another land." Ireland / Manx |
God name "Fionn Mac Čú𝔪hal" | Ireland / Scotland / Manx | Ancient hunter-warrior god. Ireland / Scotland / Manx |
Goddess name "Grainne" | Ireland / Scotland / Manx | Master herbalist and Goddess of the Sun. Ireland / Scotland / Manx |
King name "Manannan" | Manx | Is believed to have three legs and his form of walking was to roll in a circular motion on his three legs like a wheel in order to get from place to place. Manx |
"Mauthe Dog" | Manx | A spectre hound that for many years haunted the ancient castle of Peel town, in the Isle of Man. This black spaniel used to enter the guard-room as soon as candles were lighted, and leave it at day-break. While this spectre-dog was present the soldiers forebore all oaths and profane talk. One day a drunken trooper entered the guard-house alone out of bravado, but lost his speech and died in three days. Manx |
Spirit name "Phynnodderee" | German | Phynnodderee [the Hairy-one]. A Manx spirit, similar to the Scotch "brownie," and German "kobold." He is said to be an outlawed fairy, and the offence was this: He absented himself without leave from Fairy-court on the great levee-day of the Harvest-moon, being in the glen of Rushen, dancing with a pretty Manx maid whom he was courting. |
God name "Shoney" | Scotland | Sea faeries living off the coast of Scotland and Northern Ireland. Originally a single god of the North Sea Ireland / Scotland / Manx |
God name "Somhlth" | Ireland / Scotland / Manx | God who had no corporeal incarnation apart from pure masculine energy. Ireland / Scotland / Manx |