Celtic Myth 4, The Washer at the Ford: Creepy and Gruesome Tales
Channel: Snow Mountain
Date: 2020-10-20

Celtic Myth 4, The Washer at the Ford: Creepy and Gruesome Tales

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One common theme of Celtic myth is that of the Washer at the Ford. The war goddess who waited at the ford, sometimes in the form of a woman, sometimes as a crow or a raven, determined which of the warriors who passed would perish on the battlefield that day.

On their way to battle, a band of warriors stopped at a ford, a river crossing, where they beheld a terrible sight. A tall phantom woman, her eyes red and angry, glowered at them through gray, matted hair. At her feet, which were awash with blood, lay the mangled corpses of warriors, some so hideously disfigured that not even their mothers would have recognized them.


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