(S4E8) 🐈 GATE TO HELL: The Cave of the Cats (Halloween)

(S4E8) 🐈 GATE TO HELL: The Cave of the Cats (Halloween)

🐈 Let's take a seasonally-appropriate trip to a mysterious cave in County Roscommon, said to be Ireland's 'gateway to hell', and also the origin of Halloween...

We meet Queen Maeve, monstrous cats, the Morrigan, and of course... the sidhe!


📍 Oweynagat, Co. Roscommon, Ireland


Featuring the texts:


TĂĄin BĂł CĂșailnge

(1. Queen Medb's Revenge)


Fled Bricrenn / Bricriu's Feast

(2. The Cats' Test)


Echtra Nerai (Adventures of Nera)

(3. Samhain's Threshold)


The Metrical Dindshenchas

(4. Meet the Morrigan)


🌟 Related episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠(S4E7) Stone and Sidhe with Thomas Sheridan⁠⁠


💎 Related bonus episodes:

  1. ⁠⁠Are The Fairies The Dead⁠⁠?
  2. Norah and the Fairies (specifically the second half looking at the sidhe/sithean)


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