People have always tried to understand the strange moods of winter. It is cold, unpredictable, loud, and sometimes very magical. In old Scotland and Ireland, people believed that winter arrived ...

EFFECTIVELY, Scotland was banned from celebrating Christmas, at least in the manner we do now, for around 400 years. For this reason there are not a whole lot of traditions that are unique to this ...

The legends of the winter goddess and the locations and ancient Irish folklore, including Saint Brigid, the goddess of summer, are linked to her. The Cailleach, or the hag, has been feared and revered ...

The Cailleach is one of the pervasive characters of Scottish folklore. The Cailleach (in Gaelic) or Carlin (in Scots) is a mythical old woman associated with the creation of the natural landscape and ...

Patterson (Grimoire of a Kitchen Witch), a practitioner of witchcraft, gathers tales of a Celtic goddess known as the Cailleach in this unsatisfying volume. Originally linked with creation, the ...

Alison Campsie went on a trek through deep Scotland to find Tigh na Cailleach and was met with belief, tradition and surprises in the longest glen. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The ...

"The Cailleach was dependent on this one thing... every hundred years she must get back to the water and immerse herself so that she might become young again." This film is an interpretation of ...

The shelter where the Cailleach and her ‘family’ will be placed until May. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian Figures of the ‘wise woman’ Cailleach deity and her family are part of a tradition ...

Shane Lehane's deep interest in the Irish Hare has led him to write a paper entitled the The Cailleach and the Cosmic Hare, and he fills us in on some of the folk beliefs that have sprung up around ...