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Cyroeraeth

A variation of the Banshee legends, this Welsh creature was said to give warning of impending death. Heard only at crossroads or near a river, the cry of the Cyroeraeth was accompanied by splashing water. Although it was very rarely seen, the Cyroeraeth has been described as a woman with tangled hair and long withered arms. Its face was described as withered and ghastly, and it had long black teeth.

Atete

Fertility goddess. Kafa [Ethiopia, northeastern Africa]. She was assimilated into the Christian cult of the Virgin Mary, but is probably the subject of an ancient fertility rite performed by women who collect various sacred plants and throw them into the river. The festival is known as Astar yo Mariam (Epiphany of Mary).

Anjea

Animistic fertility spirit. Australasia. Known to tribesmen on the Pennefather River, Queensland, Australia and believed to place mud babies in the wombs of pregnant women. The grandmother of a newly born infant buried the afterbirth, which was collected by Anjea and kept in a hollow tree or some such sanctuary until the time came to instill it into another child in the womb.

 

OHIO RIVER BROWN ALE

Ingredients
6.6 lbs. Unhopped light malt extract
4 oz crystal malt 20° L
4 oz black patent malt
2 oz chocolate malt
1 ½ oz Willamette hop pellets (bittering)
¾ oz Cascade hop pellets (flavoring)
½ oz Cascade hop pellets (aroma)
½ tsp Irish Moss
liquid ale yeast
¾ cup corn sugar

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Chester

by Brian Edward Rise

 
Town of Roman origin on the Dee river. The “Deeside Camp” or Devana Castra was an army base nearby. The name eventually was shortened to Chester, or “the Camp.” Cair Legion, or City of the Legion is the name given to Chester in the Annales Cambriae which would make it the location of Arthur’s ninth battle from the list in the Historia Brittonum.

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Naiads

by Bob Fisher

 
The Naiads were nymphs of bodies of fresh water and were one of the three main classes of water nymphs – the others being the Nereids (nymphs of the Mediterranean Sea) and the Oceanids (nymphs of the oceans). The Naiads presided over rivers, streams, brooks, springs, fountains, lakes, ponds, wells, and marshes. They were divided into various subclasses: Crinaeae (fountains), Pegaeae (springs), Eleionomae (marshes), Potameides (rivers), and Limnades or Limnatides (lakes). Roman sources even assigned custody of the rivers of Hades to Naiads classified as Nymphae Infernae Paludis or the Avernales.

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