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St.Brigid's Cross - Any makers?

  • 31-01-2005 10:43pm
    #1
    AlisonB
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    Or is the tradition gone? trying to make one :confused:


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  • #2
    Badly Drunk Boy
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    Made them years ago, when I was in school, being from Kildare and all. This site shows you how to do it...

    http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/1Kids/MakingBrigdXs.html


  • #3
    AlisonB
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    kool thx


  • #4
    Stark
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    Ah the Blue Peter episode that should have been but wasn't :)


  • #5
    Nevyn
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    http://www.ipcc.ie/bicartpr3.html

    or try this one.

    More about the day and the lady soon on the paganism forum
    as she was a Godess before a chirstain staint.


  • #6
    Talliesin
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    Thaed wrote:
    More about the day and the lady soon on the paganism forum
    as she was a Godess before a chirstain staint.
    And later also the Voodoun lwa Maman Brigitte/Brijit, the wife of Baron Samedi, to whom the grave of the first woman buried in a Haitian cemetary is consecrated.

    I've always folded both of the first two reeds, rather than keeping one straight as in both of those how-to sites. I wonder if their way is better and makes it any easier to weave. I shall have to try both and compare (but next year, I'm all out of reeds).


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  • #7
    ferdi
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    Thaed wrote:
    as she was a Godess before a chirstain staint.
    yeah, it wasnt the only thing the church borrowed from other ideas was it :rolleyes:


  • #8
    Talliesin
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    ferdi wrote:
    yeah, it wasnt the only thing the church borrowed from other ideas was it :rolleyes:
    Well, we all steal from each other really.

    Besides it's not a matter of a simple borrowing. It's quite likely that there was a historical Christian woman behind the stories of the saint and in particular that the record in the Martyrology of Bede is referring primarily, if not wholy, to her. But stories of her got mixed up with earlier stories of Bríd, and others that make no sense with either Bríd as a Goddess or a Saint (e.g. attending the birth of Christ as a midwife is unlikely for either a Celtic goddess or an abbess from the 4th or 5th Century CE). If anything the Church (the organisation) have repeatedly tried to prevent the Church (the people) from borrowing Bríd, as she ranked a bit too high to some of their minds (for that matter I've heard she was decanonised in the 1960s, but I haven't actually seen anything official to that effect).

    The Catholic people of Ireland on the other hand have always held her to be theirs and the are quite right to do so.


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