This unique and ground-breaking work brings together for the first time the wealth of folklore, stories and legends surrounding the Cailleach, the pre-eminent C

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An Cailleach Bhearra, or the Hag of Beara, is a wise woman figure embedded in the physical and mental landscape of western Ireland and Scotland, particularly in