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  1. #Celtic #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday: #Emer Foltchain (fairhair), daughter of Forgall Manach, was courted by #CuChulainn. She would only marry him if he first slew a hundred at the fords between the Delvin and the Boyne. Among them had to be her magical aunt, who in various forms was trying to kill her.
    Source: Sylvia Botheroyd `#Irland`

  2. #Celtic #FairyTaleTuesday: After the wedding of #Cuchulainn and #Emer, the king of #Ulster had to exercise his "right of the first night". While #Conchobar mac Nessa feared #CúChulain`s reaction, he would have lost his authority if he had renounced his privilege. To preserve #Emer's virginity, #Conchobar shared the bed with #Cuchulainn's wife on her wedding night, but the #druid #Cathbad slept between them.

  3. `The #fairy queen #Fand, “tear,” came to the warrior poet #CúChulainn, in a vision in which she whipped him senseless. The greatest of #Irish heroes fell into a lovesick stupor in which he lingered for a year. When the year had passed and the great feast of #Samhain came, he went into the Otherworld for Fand, leaving behind his loyal wife #Emer. Although Emer had endured #CúChulainn‘s other affairs, she could not bear to lose him to #Fairyland, so she followed him. When she saw how deeply Fand loved him, and he her, Emer offered to step aside. Fand, not to be outdone, offered the same and returned to her own husband, Manannán Mac Lir, who wrapped her in his magical cloak to make her forget the human hero. On earth, #CúChulainn and #Emer drank a potion of forgetfulness and returned to their earlier state.`
    Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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  4. WHO tries to calm talk of pandemic, says the word “does not fit the facts” - Enlarge / World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus gives a press... more: arstechnica.com/?p=1655976 #emerginginfectiousdisease #infectiousdisease #publichealth #coronavirus #covid-19 #epidemic #outbreak #pandemic #science #cases #emer #cdc #who