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Medieval Devil in Wales - British Goblins CT018

Celtic Tomes

Release Date: 09/27/2017

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Celtic Tomes

This chapter covers Temples, Altars, Images, Symbols, and the Cult of Weapons of the Ancient Celts.

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Celtic Tomes

The Celtic year was not at first regulated by the solstices and equinoxes, but by some method connected with agriculture or with the seasons.

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Celtic Tomes

The Irish geis, pl. geasa, which may be rendered by Tabu, had two senses. It meant something which must not be done for fear of disastrous consequences, and also an obligation to do something commanded by another.

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Celtic Tomes

The Celts offered human victims on the principle of a life for a life, or to propitiate the gods, or in order to divine the future from the entrails of the victim. We shall examine the Celtic custom of human sacrifice from these points of view first.

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Celtic Tomes

The Celts may have possessed the Heaven and Earth myth, but all trace of it has perished. There are, however, remnants of myths showing how the sky is supported by trees, a mountain, or by pillars.

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Celtic Tomes

Animal worship pure and simple had declined among the Celts of historic times, and animals were now regarded mainly as symbols or attributes of divinities.

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Celtic Tomes

The Celts had their own cult of trees, but they adopted local cults. This chapter also details how the Celts made their sacred places in dark groves, the trees being hung with offerings or with the heads of victims.

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Celtic Tomes

Among the Celts the testimony of contemporary witnesses, inscriptions, votive offerings, and survivals, shows the importance of the cult of waters and of water divinities. This chapter also details the many fairies and folklore creatures associated with water.

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Celtic Tomes

McCulloch talks about animism, where everything was a person and the greater objects of nature were worshiped for themselves alone.

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The custom of burying grave-goods with the dead and other grave customs is the subject of this chapter. McCulloch also talks about the role of fairies and the festival of Samhain.

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The Medieval Devil in Wales

British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881)

Book 2 Chapter 6

by

Wirt Sikes

The Medieval Devil in his customary form in Wales. How Sion Cent tricked the Devil and kept his soul and how he was tricked by an old Welshwoman at the Devil's Bridge. We learn about the Devil's Bridge as well as about how to avoid Pacts with the Devil. Sikes tells us of the few visits by angels to Wales as well as the Bardic Tradition of the Creation.

Running Order:

  • The Evil Spirit in his customary Form 1:36
  • The stupid Medieval Devil in Wales 1:53
  • Sion Cent 3:43
  • The Devil outwitted 4:26
  • Pacts with the Fiend and their Avoidance 4:49
  • Sion Dafydd's Foul Pipe 5:28
  • The Devil's Bridge and its Legends 8:34
  • Similar Legends in other Lands 10:10
  • The Devil's Pulpit near Tintern 11:50
  • Angelic Spirits 13:03
  • Welsh Superstitions as to pronouncing the Name of the Evil Spirit 16:03
  • The Bardic Tradition of the Creation 17:12
  • The Struggle between Light and Darkness and its Symbolization 18:49

 

Names Used in this Section

All proper names, and words in Welsh or other languages, are recorded here in the show-notes and we've done our best to get the pronunciations right for you.

Sion Cent
Sion Dafydd
Cardiganshire
Polyphemus
Hercules
Cacus
Odysseus
Peredur
Mabinogion
Gambrinus
der Teufel
Jack the Giant Killer
Norse Jotuns
Arabian Genii
Monmouthshire
Maenol
Pope Benedict IX
Rev. John Kent
Cymric
Grosmont Fair
Monnow, near Grosmont
Diawl
Carmarthenshire
Hills of Arfon
Sion Dafydd
Llanfair-Fechan
Rhiwgyfylchi
Ach! tw! tw!
Main at Frankfort
Switzerland
St. Gothard
Andermatt
Hafod
Tintern Abbey
Cistercian monks
degage (e acute)
Llandogo
Prophet Jones
David Thomas
Pantau
Laugharne
Pa hyd? Pa hyd? Dychwelwch feibein Adda!
Pa hyd? Pa hyd yr erlidiwch y Cristnogion duwiol?
Ress David
Whitlands
Pont y Gwr Drwg
/|\ (Welsh Bardic Name of God)

Awen

The Three Rays


Hindus
Brahma, VBishnu
Siva
Einigan Gawr
Genii/Jinns
Ahriman
Vritra
Indra
Ormuzd

 

British Goblins can be found on Archive.org

You can find out more about Wirt Sikes on Wikipedia.

Try the Celtic Myth Podshow for the Tales and Stories of the Ancient Celts at http://celticmythpodshow.com or on Apple Podcasts.

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