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natasailincic.bsky.social
Cailleach, watercolour.

We're getting our first proper frost tonight, here in the Scottish lowlands 🍂
November 16, 2024 at 5:06 PM
rachelquinlan.bsky.social
The Cailleach - watercolor, ink, gouache

Originally created for the 78Tarot Mythical deck from @78tarot.bsky.social

#traditionalart #myth #folklore #cailleach
December 10, 2024 at 2:07 PM
mabellogan.bsky.social
Drier start meantime.. Beinn Na Cailleach, Broadford, Isle of Skye #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
August 7, 2026 at 8:07 AM
theaddersden.bsky.social
📖 Read about various Scottish Gaelic Cailleach entities - yes, multiple! - here: https:// theaddersden.wordpress.com/tag/the-cailleach/

#pagan #witch #celtic #cailleach #folklore #scotland #history
Text saying: “Many a mountain has its Cailleach.” Scottish Folklorist F Marian McNeil The text is white & imposed over a photo of Mountains in Glencoe, Scotland
September 28, 2026 at 3:31 AM
votiveillustration.bsky.social
A quick colour study of An Cailleach Dhubh - the Cormorant. These intriguing seabirds have a rich and varied assortment of beautifully descriptive names as Gaeilge - From 'Broigheall' (Broghais/belly & Geal/white) to 'Cailleach Dhubh' (Dark Hag) to 'Fiach Mara' (Sea Raven).
#spéirghorm
Illustration of a cormorant perched on a branch, wings outstretched. The words 'Cailleach Dhubh' are written in gaelchló style font on the bottom left of the image
April 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
albatrossart.bsky.social
Party Time [1/3]
Commissioned by Cailleach & Lewdessa
October 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
albatrossart.bsky.social
Party Time [3/3]
Commissioned by Cailleach & Lewdessa
October 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
albatrossart.bsky.social
Party Time [2/3]
Commissioned by Cailleach & Lewdessa
October 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
ciaraioch.bsky.social
This year's Christmas cards feature An Cailleach, bringer of winter in Irish tradition. They're available to order at the link below and will begin shipping towards the end of November ❄️

www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Cártaí Nollag / Christmas Cards - An Cailleach (Goddess Of Winter) — Ciaraíoch Art
Christmas cards featuring the Cailleach, the mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter. She is associated with storms, the landscape, and horned beasts like deer, ...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
plaidwitch.bsky.social
🎨: Joseph Farquharson

#witchsky #witchcraft #pagansky

Here comes Cailleach
Here comes Cailleach
Right down Cailleach lane
November 3, 2024 at 3:11 PM
adamcsharp.bsky.social
I’m currently reading up on an old Irish term for a person who likes to stay home by the warmth and comfort of the fireplace (a person we might today call a couch potato). The term, cailleach na luatha, should immediately replace couch potato though. It essentially means “divine hag of the ashes”
March 19, 2024 at 8:36 PM
ciaraioch.bsky.social
Christmas cards available now and shipping here and abroad, featuring a choice of either a traditional Irish Christmas fireplace, or an Cailleach, the ancient Irish bringer of winter ❄️

Traditional Irish Christmas: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

An Cailleach: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Photograph of the traditional Irish Christmas cards design against a red background #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland Photograph of the Cailleach cards against a pale blue background
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
godysseypodcast.com
The Gaelic Cailleach accepts offerings of bread, often burnt, varying by region and time of year. In autumn, near Samhain, she accepts this gift for her time of year has begun. #WyrdWednesday
The Seaside Forager's Dulse Focaccia as a Soulcake for the Cailleach on the Hebrdies island of South Uist; here it is shown on a stony beach at lowtide with a blue sky above.
September 23, 2026 at 2:48 PM
adamcsharp.bsky.social
There’s an old Irish term for someone who likes to stay home by the warmth and comfort of the fireplace (what we might today call a couch potato)... cailleach na luatha. I like to translate it (with some poetic licence) as “divine hag of the ashes”
August 23, 2024 at 2:20 PM
fleurishfolk.bsky.social
Beira, Scotland's Queen of Winter, (Cailleach, Irish), is a personification of winter in Gaelic #mythology. ❄️ As a #weather deity she can create mountains, make winter storms, herd deer, fight off spring, & she uses her staff to freeze the ground. #FolkloreSunday #Witchsky

🎨 John Duncan, 1917
Illustration by John Duncan in Wonder Tales from Scottish Myth and Legend (1917) * Other names: Cailleach Bhéara (Irish) Cailleach Bheurra (Scottish Gaelic) Caillagh (Manx) The Hag of Beara Beira, Queen of Winter
December 1, 2024 at 2:11 PM
richycraven.bsky.social
I think we should take a leaf out of Wales' book and have a mythical creature on our flag like The Dullahan, The Cailleach or a single, working professional that can afford a house.
September 25, 2026 at 11:29 AM
neu-kelte.bsky.social
#FolkloreThursday FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `An #Cailleach grows old in autumn and becomes younger as the winter passes, until in spring she relinquishes her hold and lets the summer flowers blossom.`
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Cailleach, Slieve Gullion Forrest Park, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte
September 24, 2026 at 6:08 PM
lauravilas.bsky.social
Rita Duffy. CAILLEACH, 2016
July 2, 2026 at 5:24 PM
maxmoran.bsky.social
Tigh nam Bodach - The Shrine of the Cailleach, Glen Lyon, Scotland 📷 13.05.24

#StandingStoneSunday #scape
#LandscapePhotography
#PhotographersofBlueSky
Tigh na Cailleach Glen Lyon, is small turf-roofed “house” which is home to a “family” of water-worn stones known as the Cailleach (old woman), the Bodach (old man), the Nighean (daughter) and further children. It is thought to be an ancient shrine to the cult of the Mother Goddess. Each spring the family are brought out of their house, and each October they are returned for the winter before Samhain a tradition that has been going on certainly for hundreds of years, but possibly even thousands.
February 15, 2026 at 7:55 AM
votiveillustration.bsky.social
Cuimhne, Cailleach an Mhuilinn

Cuimhne, the Hag of the Mill whose name means 'Memory' as gaeilge, is a shapeshifting cailleach in the Irish mythological tradition.

#art #artist #illustrator #illustration #traditionalart #folklore #irishfolklore #mythology #irishmythology #cailleach
Black and white illustration of a hag named Cuimhne standing barefoot at a river bend with her pack horse and her wolfhound. there are trees in the background and two large mill stones sit on the grass in the foreground.
January 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
treefolklore.bsky.social
The Cailleach bangs her staff & Autumn 🍂 comes ends The Cailleach has a number of residences around Ireland & beyond such as the Beara Peninsula in County Cork but her primary abode is Sliabh na Cailleach in Co. Meath (not too far from my home in Down) where she smokes her pipe & admires her work ☁️❄️
November 28, 2024 at 7:47 AM
stephengrae.bsky.social
The Cailleach is the 'divine ancestor', associated with the creation of the landscape and with the weather, especially storms and winter. In Druidry, the barn owl is Cailleach-oidhche gheal, the white old woman of the night.

#owlishmonday #druidry
art: Naomi Cornock
May 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
folkloretwitcher.bsky.social
Imbolc and the Cailleach
February 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
justinegc-artist.bsky.social
🌙 The Cailleach 🌙
watercolor and metallic gold leaf
#irishmythology #irishmythologyart #irishartist #paganart #witchart #altarart #deities #witchy #cailleach #thecailleach
January 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM