G, GORT, ivy in the Ogham alphabet. The bird ... - Rodney Mackay

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On one of these ocassions, while the witch was waiting for her husband to return she went to the stove to stoke the fire. Suddenly she gasped, "I've got an awful pain in my side." Half an hour later her husband arrived to say he had seen her figure on the road and had accidently driven his wagon over her. This had happened, they decided, at the exact time when she had first noticed the stitch in her side. The ingredients listed above are not as esoteric as one might think. Monkshood and deadly nightshade continue to grow on our premises at Sussex, and we did not plant them. It is fairly likely that hallucinatory combinations of drugs caused witches to remember episodes with vaulting poles or hobby-horse brooms as actual incidents of flight. Alchemy was a branch of wonder-working where the amount used often determined whether one got prophylactic or killing effect. Belladonna was not usually recommended by apothecaries, but they did prescribe it to inhibit the muscular contractions of the womb where there was possible miscarriage during pregnancy. GARACH CATH. The final battle of the Tain war, the armies of Mebd and Ailill faced off with those of Conchobhar mac Nessa on the Plain of Garach. Fergus mac Roth battling for the former host was in sight of victory at midday when Cuchulainn arrived at the battlefield. The Ulster hero reminded Fergus of his oath not to oppose him in time of war, and the southerner retired from the field. His going caused the men of Munster and Leinster to follow and by evening the Connaughtmen were defeated. GARADH, GARAIDH, GARRADH, wall, dike, mound, gratuity, the last is considered “the better spelling,” Also, a garden, Ir. garan, Indo-European gher, scratchy, stiff, tear, cf. garbh, rough. The worlds created by the gods were individually referred to as gardens. The name given a giant who lived near Ruthven, Scotland. This ill-tempered vandal had his hair pegged to the ground by local women while he slept. Awaking constrained, he soon broke loose and felled a
number of trees. Setting them ablaze he attacked his tormentors. Warriors of the tribe, returning from the hunt, discovered Garraidh’s lapse into a frenzy and tracked and killed him at the place known as Glenn Garraidh, or Glengarry. Since the women Garraidh had killed were those of the Fionn he guaranteed their eventual extinction. GARADH TOLL, den, copse, thicket, a garden, cf. Eng. yard, ON gardr. Toll, the Eng. hole, ON hol, AS howe (pronounced garah howl). The place of a dolmen-like holed-rock near Dingwall, Scotland. Here divination rites were performed and children taken to be cured of ailments. “A fire was lit; the ailing child was stripped and passed through the hole.” Additionally the mother baked bannock and left this offering on the top of the rock. If it was gone in the morning this was taken as a sign that the child might recover. GARRACH, glutton, The Battle of Garrach. See entry immediately below, The final event in the Táin war, when the forces of Queen Mebd met those of Conchobhar on the Plain of Garrach. Fergus mac Roth, of the south, was in command of the situation when Cúchullain arrived at midday. Cúchullain reminded Ferghas of an oath that both had taken never to fight against each other. As a result Ferghas and his followers left the field, and the men of Munster and Leinster followed him. By evening the Ulster army had decimated what remained of the armies of Connacht. In chasing them from the field Cúchullain cornered Mebd , sheltering in her overturned chariot. A geis prevented him from killing women so she was allowed safe conduct to her own lines. GARRAG, a young crow, garr, a gorbelly, starveling, a spoiled child, glutton, wretch, worthless creature, cf with the English, gorby and gore. Eng. gorecrow. A borrowed word. In North America the dialectic form is corby; similar to the French corbeaux. Cf. G. garrach, Throughout Europe the members of the crow family were considered sacrosanct since they were the preferred familiars of witches and some of the old pagan deities. The crows were
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Page 3 and 4: also, bolla, a bowl or vessel. simi
Page 5 and 6: GAFANN, henbane, gaf, a hook, gafal
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Page 33 and 34: which helps the corn (grains) to ri
Page 35 and 36: isolation of the Otherworld or in a
Page 37 and 38: day of each month, and the word "ra
Page 39 and 40: follow three red horsemen. Fergus m
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Page 45 and 46: warriors named Goll retreated to Gl
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Page 49 and 50: which was always on foot, and doled
Page 51 and 52: of leaving a bit of work to be done
Page 53 and 54: obtained that it was retrieved from
Page 55 and 56: GIUTHAS, fir, EIr. gius, root gis,
Page 57 and 58: as the bracken. Turn grey in childh
Page 59 and 60: y Cian, an apprentice to the smith.
Page 61 and 62: actually non-existent but served to
Page 63 and 64: after it to see if they could find
Page 65 and 66: conscience, sometimes seen material
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Page 69 and 70: monster was overcome by Cúchulainn
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Page 73 and 74: to the daughter of Cormac ard-righ,
Page 75 and 76: petitioned the widow, and she event
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Daoine sidh. GRIBH, obs. Griffin, w
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GRUGACH AN UBHAIL. The “apple mon
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GURAICEACH, a plucked bird, a block
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