The Celtic Sacking of Colchester and London Boudicca, Celtic Warrior Queen
By: Celtic Bard Jeff Boudicca was a British Celtic warrior queen who led a revolt against Roman occupation. Her date and place of birth...
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The.Enigmatic.Roast
- Sep 30, 2022
- 2 min
The New Clydesdale Horse Sculpture
By: Celtic Bard Jeff The location is Lanark Auction. It’s 3 m tall. It’s new. It was made by CodSteaks. It was paid for by fundraising. ¹...
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The.Enigmatic.Roast
- Sep 26, 2022
- 3 min
Scottish Mythology:The Boobrie
By: Celtic Bard Jeff The Boobrie is a shape-shifting bird from the mythology and folklore of the Scottish Highlands. Rather than using...
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The.Enigmatic.Roast
- Sep 23, 2022
- 4 min
Celtic Mythology:Celtic Shape Shifting
By: Celtic Bard Jeff There are tales of changelings, where “the fairies would come and take your baby” replacing your little cherub with...
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The.Enigmatic.Roast
- Sep 19, 2022
- 2 min
The Kelpies in Falkirk
By:Celtic Bard Jeff The Kelpies are 30-metre high horse-head sculptures, standing next to a new extension to the Forth and Clyde Canal in...
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The.Enigmatic.Roast
- Sep 16, 2022
- 1 min
Aife
By: Celtic Bard Jeff She was a female-warrior and a sorceress from Ireland who lived in Scotland with other Druidesses. Their task was to...
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The.Enigmatic.Roast
- Sep 12, 2022
- 2 min
Celtic Women
By: Celtic Bard Jeff Many of the most powerful deities of the Celtic pantheons were female, ranging from powerful, nurturing earth...
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The.Enigmatic.Roast
- Sep 9, 2022
- 3 min
The Real William Wallace “Braveheart”
By: Celtic Bard Jeff William Wallace was a Scottish knight and military leader during the First War of Scottish Independence, portrayed...
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The.Enigmatic.Roast
- Sep 5, 2022
- 12 min
A Short Overview of the Bagpipes from the Iberian Peninsula
By: The Bagpipe Society by Balosso-Bardin, Cassandre Image: Galician bagpipe is the gaita de fol The Iberian Peninsula is extremely rich...
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The.Enigmatic.Roast
- Sep 2, 2022
- 4 min
Tír na nÓg & The Irish Otherworld
By: Celtic Bard Jeff Tir na nÓg has also been known as the ‘Land under the Wave’ and the ‘Isle of Apple Trees.’ Interestingly, the...
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The.Enigmatic.Roast
- Aug 29, 2022
- 2 min
How Stonehenge Was Built
By: Celtic Bard Jeff Here are three folktales which supposedly explain how Stonehenge was built which involve Merlin the wizard, the...
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The.Enigmatic.Roast
- Aug 26, 2022
- 2 min
Rare Stone With Pictish Symbols Found in Farmer’s Field
By: Celtic Bard Jeff Archaeologists have uncovered a stone with carved Pictish symbols in a farmer’s field near Forfar, Scotland. A team...
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The.Enigmatic.Roast
- Aug 25, 2022
- 4 min
Battle Ready!
Arise, arise, riders of Théoden! Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered! A sword day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride...
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The.Enigmatic.Roast
- Aug 22, 2022
- 4 min
Celtic Folk Tales: Connla and the Fairy Maiden
By: Celtic Bard Jeff Connla of the Fiery Hair was son of Conn of the Hundred Fights. One day as he stood by the side of his father on the...
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The.Enigmatic.Roast
- Aug 19, 2022
- 3 min
Werewolves In Irish Folklore
By: Celtic Bard Jeff Werewolves in Irish folklore are far more complex than they are elsewhere. Sometimes they are entirely benign and...
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The.Enigmatic.Roast
- Aug 19, 2022
- 5 min
The Plantation of Ulster Irish: Plandáil Uladh
By: Celtic Bard Jeff The Plantation of Ulster was the organised colonisation (plantation) of Ulster – a province of Ireland – by people...
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The.Enigmatic.Roast
- Aug 15, 2022
- 4 min
The Wandering Wilas of Slavic Mythology
By: Celtic Bard Jeff In Slavic mythology, there is a type of nymph, which can only be described as somewhere between a ghost and a fairy....
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The.Enigmatic.Roast
- Aug 15, 2022
- 4 min
Scottish Faerie Tale: The Tale of Whuppity Stoorie
By: Celtic Bard Jeff Once upon a time, in a village called Kittlerumpit now long lost to memory, there lived a very unfortunate woman....
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The.Enigmatic.Roast
- Aug 8, 2022
- 1 min
Gallaecian Celtic Warrior Statues
By: Celtic Bard Jeff These statues can be found in Northwestern Iberia, some accompanied by statues of wild boars, a symbol of ferocity,...
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The.Enigmatic.Roast
- Aug 5, 2022
- 1 min
History of Cantabria: Wake statue of Salcedo
By: Celtic Bard Jeff Detail of the "wake-statue" Salcedo, Valderredible recently discovered and now exhibited at the Museum of Prehistory...
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