#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `Mis’s father was killed at the Battle of Ventry.

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#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `Mis’s father was killed at the Battle of Ventry. When she found her father’s body, she was so overcome by his brutal death (and probably the carnage of the battlefield) that she lost her sanity and drank his blood. She grew whiskers, fur and feathers, thus entering a non-human state, and rampaged around the area of the Sliabh Mis mountains, leaping into trees, running as fast as the wind, killing animal and human alike, and eating their raw flesh, so that Feidhlimidh, the king, sent his harper, Dubh Rois, to capture her.
Dubh Rois knew a thing or two about wild women, and he decided the best way to win her round was with gold, music and sex. He laid down on the mountainside, loosened his trousers to expose his privates, hoisted up his harp, and began to play. Seduced by his harp playing at first, Mis soon became more interested in him.
“A glance she gave, and she saw his nakedness and his playthings, and she said: “What are these?” she asked of his bag and his little eggs, and he told her.
“What is this?” she asked of the other thing that she saw.
“That is a branch of the trick,” he said.
“I don’t remember that,” she said. “My father did not have such a thing.” “Branch of the trick,” she said again. “What is the trick?”
“Sit beside me,” he said,” and I will perform the trick of that branch for you.”
“I will,” she said, “and stay beside me.”
“I will,” he said. He lay and slept with her and she said: “Ho ho, a good trick. Do it again!”
“I will,” he said. “But I will play the harp for you first.”
“Never mind the harp,” she said. “Do the trick again.”
Dubh Rois then built a fullachta fiadh in which he boiled deer meat to feed her, and gave her bread he had brought with him. Then he melted deer fat in the warm water of the fullachta and bathed her in it. These actions reminded her of how she used to live; they served to re-civilise Mis and return her from her wildness to sanity. The couple got on to marry and had children together.`
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