Magical Heroes in Celtic Myth“Kings or great heroes…are very commonly described as
Magical Heroes in Celtic Myth“Kings or great heroes…are very commonly described as being able to shift their own shape, or that of other people…and when this fact is coupled with another, namely the ancient belief that such kings and great heroes were incarnations and reincarnations of the Tuatha De Danann, who form the supreme fairy hierarchy, we realize that, having such an origin, they were simply exercising in human bodies powers which their divine race exercises over men from the fairy world.”-W. Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (1911) -- source link
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