Myths and Mythical Creatures
The Indo-Europeans, however, emphasized a male sky god.
Then, Christianity introduced the Original Sin and a dualistic
division between body and soul, world and spirit, not present before.
The division of Christianity between Catholic and Calvinist
occurred during the settlement of Ulster by the Anglo Scots in the
seventeenth century.
The following 4 mythical creatures belonged in the Irish society whom cherished
and believed in them. Here is what they believed,
The Leprechauns
The name leprechaun stood for a great description for the
creature, "wee bodies". The leprechaun is a small creature, whom is a
solitary fairy. A very small and sly guy he is, and is said to keep
gold.
The Leprechaun became later on a solitary shoe maker for fairies.
Myths and mythical creatures have been around for a long time.
Some myths and creatures are more well known than others. In this
part, you will read about the first myth, and interesting and odd
mythical creatures.
The first myth was present with the mesolithic and then the
Neolithic peoples. The myth of this era, deemed Old European,
revolved around the figure of a female goddess of birth, death and
regeneration.
The Pooka
The Pooka is an animal spirit, that can stay in any animal form.
The name Pooka comes from the name of a he-goat 'poc'. A form the
Pooka rests in often is the water horse. They emerge from the deep,
and graze i fields. They live on solitary mountains among old ruins.
They make great horses, but keeping them out of water can be
difficult. If they see water, they take their rider in with them, and
tear
them to pieces at the bottom.
The Merrow
The Merrow being a sea maid lives in the depths of the sea. The
male is described to be a creature with green hair, green teeth, a red
nose, and pig eyes. But on the other hand the women are far more
beautiful, with long fish like tails and duck like webs between their
fingers. Fishermen always hated the site of them, because it usually
meant a gale.
The Banshee
The banshee belongs to the solitary fairies. They work as an
attendant fairy following old families and nothing but them, mourning
before their death. If the death of someone of great importance or
holy follows, several banshees gather with a mournful cry. An omen
that sometimes accompanies a Banshee is called a coach a-bower.
Its a huge black coach, mounted by a coffin driven by several headless
horses.