Tuatha Dé Danann

Stories tagged Tuatha Dé Danann:

• The Birth of Lugh Aug 13, 2025

  

  They hid him first in a foster-house where the roof was thatched with careful straw and the door knew the boots that crossed it. Prophecies gather trouble like wool gathers burrs, and a child promised to be light to a people makes jealousies as well as songs. Tailtiu, the foster-mother who later gave her name to games, bent over him and whispered the names of tools—sling, spear, harp, needle—so that when he woke he would not be surprised by the world.

• The Dagda’s Cauldron of Plenty Aug 13, 2025

  

  The Dagda had a belly like a drum and a laugh like a door flung open, and his cauldron never ran empty. You could put twenty ladles in at once and still it would feed a latecomer with a second helping and a story besides. But abundance without order is like a feast without chairs.