Brigid

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Brigid

One of the most prominent Irish goddesses, Brigid is a triple goddess associated with healing, poetry, and smithcraft. She was a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann, a mythical race in Ireland. She is celebrated as a prominent Ulster goddess. Her holiday, Imbolc, held on February 1st (now an annual bank holiday in Ireland), marks the midpoint of winter. Brigids influence was so significant that she was later Christianised as Saint Brigid, and many of Irelands wells and waterways are devoted to her.

It is said she approached the King of Leinster requesting the land on which to build her monastery. The place she selected in Kildare was ideal. The King refused her request, Brigid was not put off by his refusal. Rather, she and her sisters prayed that the King’s heart would soften. She made her request again but this time she asked, “Give me as much land as my cloak will cover.”

Seeing her small cloak, he laughed and then granted this request. However, Brigid had instructed her four helpers each to take a corner of the cloak and walk in opposite directions – north, south, east and west. As they did this the cloak began to grow and spread across many acres. She now had sufficient land on which to build her monastery. The King and his entire household were dismayed and amazed.