Reassessment of Morgan le Fay
From the late Middle Ages onwards, Morgan le Fay has not been portrayed as the independent ruler completely apart from Arthur and his world that she...
The King o’ the Cats
The British folktale ‘The King o' Cats’ contains a prototype of a Cat-Sìth. In the story, a sexton’s wife and her black cat, Old Tom, are waiting by...
The Black Cat – Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Black Cat” uses a Celtic Cat-Sìth both as a symbol of guilt and as a nemesis to punish the guilty. The...
Seanchán the Bard and Irusan, the King of Cats
One of the more famous Irish tales involving cats is the story of Seanchán Toirpéist, Ireland’s chief bard, and Irusan, the King of Cats. The...
The Island of the Cat
In The Voyage of Máel Dúin, a tale of an epic sea voyage written in Old Irish ca. 1000 A.D., the hero and his crew alight on an island with a white...
King Arthur and the Cat
Evidence that cats were a source of fear as well as reverence to the Celts can be found in the Welsh legend of Cath Palug, a monstrous cat (the name...