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| Cailleac Bhuer
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| Descritption:
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| Is a version of the Scottish Crone Goddess. She walks through the Scottish Highlands in tattered robes of either white or blue in color, carrying a staff made of holly and a crow perched on her left shoulder. She is also considered one of the deities of winter.
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| Cailleac's are known as excellent shape-shifters. They may take on the apperance of young maidens, hares, cats, stones, and trees. As well as the form of a deer, a form that is often assumed by most fairy women. Her holly staff has the ability to kill a mortal with just one touch.
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| Purpose:
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| She is the old hag of winter and on May Eve at midnight she tosses her staff in to a holly bush and then is turned to stone until Halloween when she is to rise again for the coming winter season.
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| Also known as:
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| The Blue Hag, The Mistress of Wild Things, the Veiled One
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| Source:
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| Eason, Cassandra. A Complete Guide to Faeries & Magical Beings. York Beach, ME: Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC, 2002
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