🐈 Let's take a seasonally-appropriate trip to a mysterious cave in County Roscommon, said to be Ireland's 'gateway to hell', and also the origin of Halloween...
We talk Queen Maeve, monstrous cats, the Morrigan, and of course... the sidhe!
📍 Oweynagat, Co. Roscommon, Ireland
Featuring the texts:
Táin Bó Cúailnge
(1. Queen Medb's Revenge)
Fled Bricrenn / Bricriu's Feast
(2. The Cats' Test)
Echtra Nerai (Adventures of Nera)
(3. Samhain's Threshold)
The Metrical Dindshenchas
(4. Meet the Morrigan)
🌟 Related: (S4E7) Stone and Sidhe with Thomas Sheridan
💎 Enjoy bonus episode Are The Fairies The Dead?
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