Celtic folklore
Gaelic legendary traditions
Celtic folklore encompasses the myths, legends, and traditional beliefs of Celtic peoples—Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Breton, and others.
It features fairies, banshees, selkies, and the otherworld, a realm existing alongside our own.
Figures like Cú Chulainn and the Tuatha Dé Danann populate heroic tales.
The story draws heavily on Celtic folklore.
Many traditions survive in modern Halloween customs and folk practices.
- Tuatha Dé DanannAncient Irish deity tribe
- SamhainCeltic harvest-end observance
- sean-nós singingTraditional Irish unaccompanied vocal music
- SidheIrish mythological fairy race
- fairy moundEnchanted hill of folklore
Fionn mac Cumhaill · banshee wail · Táin Bó Cúailnge · cattle raid · holy well · rowan tree · Brigid · Beltane · green man · stone circle · laments · epic sagas · faeries · clover · otherworld · barrow · harp · raven
- folk culturefolk customs, folk beliefs, folk costume, folk crafts, folk medicine
- Celtic heritageCelts, druids, bards, Ireland, Scotland
- Folklore Bookstrickster tales, animal fables
- Raven Symbolismblack plumage, gothic themes, Norse mythology, Odin, Edgar Allan Poe
- Ulster CycleDeirdre, Ulster, cattle raid, Morrigan, Fergus
Celtic folkloreNorse mythology
Scandinavian pagan religion
Greek mythology · Roman mythology · Egyptian mythology · Hindu mythology · Japanese folklore
Celtic folkloremodern science
Post-Enlightenment systematic investigation
scientific method · rationalism · positivism · secular humanism · empiricism
Celtic folkloredisenchantment
Loss of cherished belief
modernity · secularism · Christian doctrine · atheism · industrialism