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🍀 Celtic Myths & Legends
Giants, selkies and banshees — journey into the magical myths of Ireland, Scotland and Wales!
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Questions
In Scottish and Irish folklore, selkies can shed their skin to take human form. What animal are they in the sea?
Otters
Dolphins
Salmon
Seals
20s
In the Irish legend of the Children of Lir, their jealous stepmother Aoife turns the four children into which creatures?
Ravens
Deer
Swans
Hares
20s
In traditional Irish folklore, what trade is the leprechaun usually said to practise?
Shoemaker
Blacksmith
Tailor
Baker
20s
According to legend, Finn McCool built the Giant's Causeway to cross the sea and fight a giant from which land?
Iceland
England
Wales
Scotland
20s
The Ulster hero Cú Chulainn was first called Sétanta. What does his famous new name mean?
Hound of the Sea
Culann's Hound
Wolf of Ulster
Hound of the King
20s
The Celtic festival of Samhain marked the end of the harvest and the beginning of which season?
Summer
Autumn
Winter
Spring
20s
Oisín returned from Tír na nÓg, the Land of Youth, but was warned not to touch Irish soil. What happened when he did?
He fell into a hundred-year sleep
He turned into a white horse
He instantly became a very old man
He became invisible for ever
30s
The Roman writer Pliny the Elder described druids cutting mistletoe with a golden sickle. From which tree did they cut it?
Oak
Ash
Yew
Rowan
30s
In Irish myth, the Tuatha Dé Danann were defeated by the Milesians. Where did they go afterwards?
Into the fairy mounds beneath the land
Across the sea to Wales
Up into the sky as the stars
Into the bodies of wild animals
30s
In Welsh legend, the boy prophet Emrys reveals a red dragon fighting a white one. What did the white dragon stand for?
The Romans
The Normans
The Vikings
The Saxons
30s