Celtic Goddess, Morrigan
There was also an
extraordinary goddess named the Morrigan, who appears to embody all
that is perverse and horrible among supernatural powers. She
delighted in setting men at war, and fought among them herself,
changing into many frightful shapes and often hovering above fighting
armies in the aspect of a crow. She met Cuchulain once and proffered
him her love in the guise of a human maid. He refused it, and she
persecuted him thenceforward for the most of his life. Warring with
him once in the middle of the stream, she turned herself into a
water-serpent, and then into a mass of water-weeds, seeking to
entangle and drown him. But he conquered and wounded her, and she
afterwards became his friend. Before his last battle she
passed through Emain Macha at night, and broke the pole of his
chariot as a warning.
Morrigan, goddess,
Celt, preverse, horrible, supernatural powers,
A goddess named the
Morrigan, who appears to embody all that is perverse and horrible
among supernatural powers
