[Christine’s Halloween Monster and Faery List]

Kings: C:

Cormac Mac Art, Cormac ap Skeggi, Cormac mac Cuilennáin (Raven, Sickle)
(pron. KOHR-mahk) Clean-shaven giant with flaxen hair in a fillet, large glittering, sparkling eye, ruddy skin, even teeth, silver brooch & gold-hilted sword. Cathbad: Husk put a geasa: taboo on him when he was born. He was forbidden to listen to Craiphtine: Crackling Fire’s ’s hole-headed lute; hunt birds at Mag Dá Cheo: Plain of Two Roosters; drive horses over ash; swim with Loch Ló’s birds; tryst with a woman in Seo-áth Mór; hunt animals on Mag Sainb or cross the Shannon River with dry feet. He violated all of these & Anlón Mac Maga: Abundant Food Son of Fertile Plain of Doiche took his head to Athlone.

  He exchanged his wife Eithne: Seed and two sons [Carpre: Soul Carrier] for Manannan’s glittering silver faery branch with nine red apples [other stories: three gold apples] that puts wounded men and women to sleep, but relented and went to retrieve them. On the border of Manannan’s misty plain he saw horsemen thatching a house with bird feathers unsuccessfully [those who seek fortune & leave their house bare], a youth endlessly trying to light a fire [those who labor for others & never warm themselves] & three wells with heads where each mouth forms the head of another. [First Head: two streams out of the mouth & one stream flowing in: those who give freely & get little Second head: one stream out & one flowing in: those who give when they get, Third Head: three streams flowing out: those who get much and give little]
Manannan: Son of the Sea & his wife clad in many colors cooked him wild boar from seven regenerating boars that can feed the world & drink from the seven white cows with endless milk. They gave him a golden cup that splits lies into four pieces and unites truths, a tablecloth of endless food, and his family. He went to sleep and woke up at Teamhair.

 In The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald, he is dark-haired, with black eyes and a curly lock on his forehead His brother is Thorgils. They are the sons of the goddess Dalla ab Onund the Seer and they live in Mel. He is the consort of the goddess Steingerd who takes the form of a golden raven and talks about the reapers in harvest of the goddess Hilda. He built the castle of Scarborough. His son is Ogmund and he arranges Ogmund’s marriage to Helga, sister of the god Bersi. (69, 71, 126)


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