The goddess had to be appeased and celebrated to ensure the fertility of the land, animals, and people. Celtic mythology holds that the chieftains slept with the goddesses in a mating ritual that ...

Brigid the pre-Celtic pagan Goddess and the Christian Saint appear ... so she pulled out one of her eyes to destroy her beauty. In The Life of Brigid, her biographer Cogitosus reveals St Brigid ...

St. Brigid's Day, February 1, is when Ireland remembers the Celtic goddess Brigid and her immense power in both the Irish mythological and religious imagination. The goddess Brigid was the ...

St. Brigid's Day, celebrated on February 1st, honors both the Christian saint and the ancient Celtic goddess Brigid. It marks the beginning of spring in Ireland and highlights the festival's deep ...