Craft and Skill

Stories with the Craft and Skill theme:

• 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.