Mythical Trail: Cailleach Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Idaho Druids: Between the damage by the soda springs fire, ongoing roadwork burying caches, all the horses are gone now, to residents just taking caches, it's time to archive.

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Hidden : 5/21/2014
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

In Ireland and Scotland, the Cailleach is the name for various old hags with mystical qualities. One Cailleach turned to stone on Beltaine and was reborn at Samhain. Another, Cailleach Bheur, personified wintertime. She was born an ugly old woman and died as a pretty maiden. In another version of the story she had the power to predict the weather. If the day of the Imbolc festival dawned fair, she would come outside. But if the weather was foul, she would stay inside. A fair day on February 1 was a bad forecast for the rest of the year. Yet another hag, Cailleach Bhéirre, sought the love of a knight or hero, as told in the Mythological Cycle. If he complied, she would become young and beautiful. She went through seven cycles of youth to maturity, so that she saw seven husbands die of old age during her lifetime

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