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LEIGH (llay), medicine, a physician, OIr. legib, cf. leech. From their habit of using leeches to bleed patients, thereby eliminating "evil spirits" from the blood. LEN. The goldsmith to Bobd Dearg. His name persists in Loch Lena, the G. Lough Leane, Kilkenny. LEIR (hleer), clear-sighted. Leirg, a plain, leir, altogether, torment, pain, Lat. lacero, leirist, a slut, a foolish senseless person, a Quarter-Day fool. Named after Ler and his son Manann, the Fomorian sea-gods, whose people were noted for this ability. The third of three supernatural senses, the others being fore-sightedness and hindsightedness. It was thought that some men could project their primary soul into their invisible secondary soul or bafinn. This instantaneous traveller could journey into the future, the past, or the present, as required. In the present, a "gifted" individual could peer through the eyes of his hidden double and "overlook" events of personal interest. Sometimes referred to as "telescopic sight," and often combined with other sensory abilities. “Long-sight” was one of the principal abilities of the god Aod, or Kay. See Lear. LEUG, a precious stonehaving healing virtues, a beautiful woman, meteor, beloved person; Ir. liag, a stone, MIr. leg, OIr. lia, see next entry, gen. liace, Germ. lei, rock. The god Lugh in resting-form. A cromlech. Stones which differed markedly from their kind were considered possessed and were thus given magical properties and used as talismen. LIA, Stone. The Lord of Luachtar, treasurer to Clan Morna, father of Conan Maol. He became treasurer to the Féinn when Goll mac Morna became its leader after deposing Cumhail, the father of Fionn. The treasure bag of this group was made from the skin of the goddess Aoife, who had been killed while shape-changed into a crane. In it were jewels and magical weapons. Lia was slain by Fionn mac Cumhail, thus his further troubles with Clan Morna.
LIA FAIL, lia, great stone; vali, cover, encircling. The coronation stone of the people of Ireland. A stone which "roared with joy under the feet of a rightful king." It also sobbed when a legitimate king was in danger. Common folk were judged by changes in their appearance when they stood upon this "centre stone": the innocent blanched white, but those guilty of a crime turned beet red. A woman approaching the stone knew she was destined not to give birth if the Lia Fail oozed blood. If it exuded milk the supplicant was known to be pregnant. Supposedly brought out of the "dark isles of the north" by the warrior-wizards known as the Tuatha daoine, it may have been removed to Scotland or even to England. It was said that the stone was first noticed during the reign of Conn of the Hundred Battles. It was claimed that this highking feared a return of the sidhe and consequently visited the Rath of the Kings near Tara each morning at sunrise. On one particular day he chanced to stand upon a stone that was “in the rath” and it screamed under his feet. He asked the three druids who were with him what this meant, but the chief druid announced that he would not be able to answer this question for fifty-three days. At the end of that time he told the king that his arcane research revelled that the stone was the “Stone of Destiny”an antique that came out of Falias with the Daoine sidh. “In Teamhair (Tara) it was first set up and as long as it remains there will be a king in this place, and a gathering place for games. If there is no high-king at a time for such a gathering then there will be hardness in that year. You should have listened well for the number of screams it made, for these are the foretelling of the number of kings of your race that will come after.” While they were in this place a mist and darkness encircled them and they were confronted by an unseen rider from the Otherworld. Lost in that far country they emerged in his company on a vast plain where they saw a king’s rath, with a golden tree at its portal. Inside the house was seen
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