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Word Cloud: CAILLE (‘Veil’ revisted)

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD This is a re-post of a Word Cloud from 2016, because it’s October, the month for otherworldly poetry, and things that go bump in the night.    In Celtic mythology, the Hag is called the Cailleach, the ‘veiled one’ … Continue reading

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ON THIS DAY: January 24, 2018

January 24th is Cell Phone Recycling Day * Belly Laugh Day Compliment Day Eskimo Pie Day * Lobster Thermidor Day Peanut Butter Day __________________________________________ MORE! Hadrian, Indira Gandhi and Thurgood Marshall, click

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ON THIS DAY: January 24, 2017

January 24th is Cell Phone Recycling Day * Peanut Butter Day Belly Laugh Day Eskimo Pie Day * Compliment Day Lobster Thermidor Day ___________________________________________________________ MORE! Frederick the Great, Marguerite Durand and Thurgood Marshall, click

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Word Cloud: CAILLE

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD In Celtic mythology, the Hag is called the Cailleach, the ‘veiled one’ meaning ‘veiled in mystery.’ There’s a caille between the world of mortals and the ‘otherworld’ of the Aos Sí, also called the Sith or Sidhe, … Continue reading

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