5 Dragons From Irish Myth & Legend

This channel is an absolute gem.

Watching this video was 13 minutes well spent :)

Love this! I’ve never been able to learn about this stuff so easily!

Wonderful, there's hardly any content on Irish or Celtic mythology. There's also the Lig na Paiste the last dragon of Ireland, able to breath fire and spit venom, black was his tongue and sharp his fangs, and his armored scales were impenetrable plates larger than a man's head with mighty curling ram's horns. His size varies depending on the story, He was long enough to wrap around the base of a large hill or a small mountain and hold his tail in his mouth. He could not be slain so similar to Fenrir was tricked into being bound and was cast into the watery depths of a great lake where he will stay until the end of the world.

For the Algorithm 😘

I really like the way you use humour and sauciness retelling these Irish myths, and how you incorporate the Gaelic language and pronunciation in your videos. Your channel is leading to many rabbit holes and rapidly becoming one of my favourites I look forward to getting a notification from, it’s the only one I get 😊Thank you again.

Wish people would realise all this stuff is true

Caoránsch also appeared in a pre-chrstian version of the myth when Fionn mac Cumhail slayed the which of the the same name, she returned as a olliphéist after one of the people that picked up one of her bones broke it and slee her in a cave to undo the mistake he made.

Intriguing bunch of Gaelic Dragons indeed, nice video boyo.🌌🐲🍀

I'd like to borrow the fourth part , Ellén Trechend, im doing a vid on three headed indo European dragons and monsters.

The Olliephest sounds to me like a Grail story. It is an alegory for the conquest of ones inner energies. Ergo, the Holy Grail. King and Queen represent sacred masculine and femminine. Interesting how heathen ireland had the story. i.e. Non Christian Ireleand. That would spell a link back to Atlantis to me although it could easily be a contemporary connection.

The Púca is quite big actually in it's horse demon form. but the monkey rabbit form is quite small though (by the way Donnie Darko rabbit demon mack thing is based on the Púca). Some even think that the stead of the Dullahan IS the Púca in its horse form!
Also there is another giant creature. The Faoladh! A massive werewolf-esque creature (although not a werewolf it is similar in appearance) Faoladh myth is thought to inspire by a giant species of wolf that was unique to Ireland like the Giant irish elk and now both are extinct. Even the regular irish wolf is extinct now and it was thought to be the larger of the wolves in Europe. Last one being killed by a farmer around 1760!. But the Faoladh from the mythology is a giant spirit from the other world that takes the form of a giant horse size wolf. gives a chosen trusted maybe of a town or village to become a Faoladh themselves and to be a guardian of the townfolk and the nature of the surrounding region. Those chosen to be Faoladh can change at will and are in full control the whole time unlike a werewolf that requires a full moon and is overcome with a sudden feel of starvation. One except to this is when a child or a pregnant woman in danger the spirit of the faoladh immediately force the chosen protector of the village to transform and give him the knowledge of exactly where the child or expecting mother was and what exactly what threatened them too.
Faoladh was was able to running all fours and stand and walk up right was typically horse size on all fours and immensely powerful agile and fast. It would seem that they don't speak, but it's not clear if they were able to or not, but they dont! The Faoladh is not simple the Irish version of a werewolf as Ireland has it's own werewolves as well like the 'Werewolves of Ossary'. So faoladh and werewolves are two separate things. also the were the Faoladh warriors who were a real band of traveling warriors that wore a cowl and cloak made from wolfs head and pelt that wandered around the Irish country side giving the services as mercenaries and getting HIGH OFF THEIR ROCKERS on mushrooms as was quite a common practice back in those times!

On the subject of dragons, dragons are "known of" in irish mythology BUT they are not unique to ireland so they tend to be disregarded in favour of this more uniquely irish dragon-like creatures. There is one actual Dragon that protects a giant tree. I dont remember the name of it though but it has a big connection to the cycle of the seasons and the autumn! But again it's not uniquely irish so as alot of the "higher/older" celtic gods that are heavily connected to ireland, like Cernunnos(the Horned God or the Green Man) and Danú(Gaia or the earth mother), both it and they are completely ignored in Irish mythology in favour of the Aes-Sí, the Formorians and the Tuathe De Danann(children of Danú) and who are uniquely Irish. The Goddess Danú herself being the exception to that of course for obvious reasons although not a whole lot is know about her.

Balor the Evil Eye, Demon King of the Formorians is also huge in size. Same as Aelinn the Burner who is corrupted God of the Tuathe De tribe!
Also Kur the all devouring Dragon god of hell (or is sometimes said to be hell itself) is also colossal in size, and also depicted a a Dragon like creature sometimes. Now you might be thinking: "But Kur is Sumerian not Irish or Celtic?!" And yes this is true Kur is NOT Celtic he is indeed Sumerian, however he pops up once or twice strangely enough, which is so fascinating! Could be just another creature that is being referred to but it's uncanny, especially when you consider that Danú and Gaia are literally one in the same despite being from completely pagan belief systems and the ancient Greeks have also spoken of Kur!

It is curious to me why Irish mythology just completely disregards creatures like dragons and other Celtic entities like Cernunnos, despite them being quite present and "honored" in Ireland by the Gaelic Celts and even the proto-Celtic indo people before them, I would love to know if there a genuine reason for it or if it's just a case of favouritism and bias.

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Subbed. Fantastic channel.

my god man, if your gonna talk irish myth and legend please learn the correct pronunciation

Thank you for making an Irish mythology channel that isn’t an old man’s tired voice.

That is not where lough derg is. You placed it miles away from Donegal. Also, pronunciation leaves a lot to be desired. I’m a fan but you’d be well served if you ran these by a native Irish person (preferably a gaeilgeoir). Too many inaccuracies to take any of this seriously unfortunately

Thanks for the maps. They were very helpful.

I thought St Patrick just cast out snakes!

Anyone else thinking movie possibilities?