[Christine’s Halloween Monster and Faery List]

Kings: C

Celta (Hidden) Celtchair ap Uthecar, Celtchar Mac Uthir (Rainement)(pron. KEHLT-uh) God, Fiann with a long nose, large ears, course grey hair. He wears a striped cloak and iron skewer brooch. He can also take the form of a man with dark brown hair, dark grey mantle, linen shirt and iron brooch. He carries the Luain spear. He was ordered by King Conchubar to rid Ireland of three scourges after he disturbed the king’s boardgame by bloodying it with the tip of a spear. Celtchair killed Conganchas Mac Daire, a dog, and when he got to the final dog he was supposed to kill he was poisoned by its blood. Rath Celtchair: Hidden Womb by Dun da Lethglas: Fort of the Green Side, Ireland is named after him Inis Celtra / Kealtra / Iniscealtra / Iniscaltra [a.k.a Inisfallen] a little green island at Loch Derg, Killarney on the Shannon River is too. Iniscealtra has St. Brigid, St. Caimin. (58, 97, 102, 189)

Cormac mac Cuilennáin, he’s the one who brought the alder-tree to Inis Celtra; that is, he planted it in the manner of an apple-tree, and God worked a miracle upon it, so that it grew apples on it, just like every other apple-tree, which many people still behold. – The Yellow Book of Lecan

Brothers: Bres Sreng: Moon Embroiderer, Elotha Ecne: Raven Knowledge, Ciarán: Dark, Declan, Coll: Hazel, Felim Mac Dall: Nine Times Beautiful, Conall: Reed, Heulyn: Sunshine, Neb, Ovan, Donal: Dark One (58, 72)


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