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The Irish have several words for female druids, such as bandruí ("woman-druid"), found in tales such as Táin Bó Cúailnge; [50] Bodhmall, featured in the Fenian Cycle, and one of Fionn mac Cumhaill's childhood caretakers; [51] and Tlachtga, [52] daughter of the druid Mug Ruith who, according to Irish tradition, is associated with the Hill of ...
Iseldir, Druid chieftain and temporary guardian of the Cup of Life in the TV series Merlin. Atticus O'Sullivan, real name Siodhachan O Suileabhain, last of the druids in The Iron Druid Chronicles series. Keyleth, the druid portrayed by Marisha Ray in the long-running web series Critical Role.
Slave women were mostly war booty, female property given up by insolvent debtors, [37] or foreign captives and could be employed within the household or sold for profit. As slaves, women had an important economic role on account of their craft work, such that in Ireland, the word cumal ('slave woman', Old Welsh : aghell and caethverched ) was ...
Deirdre was the daughter of the royal storyteller Fedlimid mac Daill.Before she was born, Cathbad, the chief druid at the court of Conchobar mac Nessa, king of Ulster, prophesied that Fedlimid's daughter would grow up to be very beautiful, but that kings and lords would go to war over her, much blood would be shed because of her, and Ulster's three greatest warriors would be forced into exile ...
She is a druid and the sister of Fionn's father Cumhall, and both she and her female partner Liath Luachra are known as great warriors. Bodhmall's story appears in The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn. When Cumhall is slain by Goll mac Morna, his wife Muirne fears for their son's safety.
Philip Crummy, director of the trust, remained cautious, adding that there may be other explanations. "In the report we draw the possibility that this man or woman was a druid," he wrote: "The so-called ‘druid’ could have been a doctor. The tea strainer contains artemisia pollen, which is commonly associated with herbal remedies.
In AD 60 or 61, while the Roman governor, Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, was leading a campaign against the island of Mona (modern Anglesey) off the northwest coast of Wales, a refuge for British rebels and a stronghold of the druids, the Iceni conspired with their neighbours the Trinovantes, amongst others, to rise in revolt.
The historian Ronald Hutton estimated that, in 1996, there were approximately 6000 members of Druid groups in England, two-thirds of whom were OBOD members. [167] The 2001 UK Census , 30,569 individuals described themselves as "Druids" and 508 as "Celtic Druids".