CHAPTER 6
LEPRECHAUNS
Most famous of all Irish myths.
A leprechaun is a type if male fairy, a little old man with a beard and wearing a green jacket and hat.
Leprechauns spend their time making shoes and collecting gold cons in a pot at the end of the rainbow.
They often play tricks on humans.
If a human catches a Leprechaun, he must give the human his a pot of gold or three witches in exchange of his freedom.
BANSHEES
Is a female spirit in Irish mytology
She cries and screams at the death of a person.
In some stories she appears as an old woman or as a beautiful young girls and her screaming, usually at night, predicts the death of the person hearing her.
She escorts the person's spirit to the next world.
THE CHILDRENS OF LIR
According to the Celtic legend, Sir was a sea god.
He had a wife and four children, but then his wife died and he married her sister
Aoife was jealous of the children because Lis loved them so much.
One day, she took the children to a lake called Lake Derravaragh.
While they were swimming, she cursed them and turned them into swans.
Only the sound of a bell of a new god could change the swans into a humans again.
CHANGELINGS
Fairies sometimes give birth to deformed babies.
When this happens, the fairies take la healthy human babies and leave their deformed babies in its place.
The changeling look like a human babies, but are evil.
Fear of changeling mede young mothers very vigilant over their new babies.
THE DAGDA´S HARPP
The most famous harp belonged to the Dagda, an important in Irish mythology.
Long ago, there were supposedly two diferent groups of people in Ireland.
One group had a long dark hair and dark eyes.
The another had blond hair and blue eyes
The Dagda was a the leader and high priest of the blond people. He owned a magic harp with beautiful jewels on it and he played wonderfull music
One day, the dark-haired people stole (robó) the Dagda
While their are eating, the Dagda broke the door and entered the castle, His enemies ran to kill him with their swords (espadas), but he called his harp and it flew into his hands.
He started to play the Music of
Tears
Laughter
Sleep
The Dagda took his magic harp and quietly left the castle.