Druids Quote by Thomas Cahill

“Faeries, like the djinn, preceded humanity as a sentient race that inhabited the earth. In Irish lore, the original fairies were the Tu-atha De…

— Rosemary Ellen Guiley

Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.

— Kate Thompson

I like believing. I believe in all of these Irish myths, like leprechauns. Not the pot of gold, not the Lucky Charms leprechauns. But…

— Megan Fox

I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as…

— Eavan Boland

“It must not be thought, however, that in pagan Ireland Fairyland was altogether conceived as a Hades or place of the dead. We have…

— Lewis Spence

I believe in all of these Irish myths, like leprechauns. Not the pot of gold, not the Lucky Charms leprechauns. But maybe was there…

— Megan Fox

There is one god, greatest among gods and men, who bears no similarity to humans either in shape or thought... but humans believe that…

— Xenophanes

I grew up in Ireland, and there were so many things we believed in.

— Caitriona Balfe

“I've been actively engaged with mythic imagery ever since I picked up that Rackham book, but it really came into focus for me when…

— Brian Froud

“The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods,…

— William Blake

The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black, While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair. “If oxen…

— Xenophanes

The Gods and Goddesses of myth, legend and fairy tale represent archetypes, real potencies and potentialities deep within the psyche, which, when allowed to…

— Margot Adler