Reading Diary Week 11: More Celtic Stories

More Celtic Fairy Tales
The Fate of the Children of Lir: Lir though he would be named all mighty king but he wasn’t. He went home mad and to console him the all mighty king sent him 3 maidens to choice from to be his wife. He chose the oldest and they had two sets of twins then she died. Lir married his dead wifes sister and she became jealous of the children. She turned them to swans.

The Fate of the Children of Lir(cont.): Lir found the swans and went to Dearg (all mighty king) to have him punish his wife. Dearg turned her into an air-demon. The swans left the lake.

The Fate of the Children of Lir(end): The swans eventually turned back to human but they died shortly after.

The Vision of MacConglinney: MacConglinney sets out to help a king with his over eating. He makes the king fast with him overnight.

 The Vision of MacConglinney (cont.): Mac had a vision of this place made out of food. This vision he told to the king while taunting him with food. Finally the beast inside the king sprang forth and left the king. Mac was rewarded greatly.

Dream of Owen O'Mulready: Owen wished to have a dream. Owen took his masters orders on how to dream and finally had a dream.

The Story of the McAndrew Family: There are 7 brothers that are really stupid. Their father died and they got his fortune. Everyone knows how stupid they are so they get tricked all the time for their money. 

The Story of the McAndrew Family(cont.): They were tricked so much that they lost all of their fortune and had to start begging. 



The Farmer of Liddesdale: A farmer lost his wife and his children. Then a little while later he lost his ploughman. He made a deal with a new ploughman. The deal was the ploughmn could have as much as he could carry in one burden-withe. The farmer had a great yield and it turned out that almost all the corn would fit in the burden-withe. The farmer would be ruined. But he said a little chant like thing and the burden-withe broke and the ploughman disappeared.

The Legend of Knockgrafton: There was once a hunchback, Lusmore, who was great at making hats. He met some fairies and they made his hunch disappear. This changed his life and he became the gossip of the town. 

The Legend of Knockgrafton (cont.):A lady came to Lusmore to see how he got his lump removed. He told her and she took her son who had a lump to the same spot under the moat. He did a terrible job adding to the song of the fairies and they got mad. They put Lusmores lump on him so now he had two lumps. He died on the way back home. 

Elidore: Eli was a bad learner. So he ran away and found some little people. He played with them for a while then he missed his mom. He would go back and forth for a while till he tried to take a little persons ball home with him. They followed him and took it back but Eli could never find them again. 

How Cormac Mac Art went to Faery: Cormac traded his wife and children for a fairy branch. A year later he went after them. He saw some weird sights but the main fairy had him tell the truth and gave back his family. 

The Ridere of Riddles: Two brothers left home after the youngest brothers mom tried to kill the oldest. They took the poison with them and it killed two horses which killed twelve ravens which killed 24 men. They used this as a riddle to with the Knight of Riddles daughter.

The Ridere of Riddles (cont.):The knight of Riddles could not solve it and the oldest brother married the daughter.