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"The
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Chinese Proverb
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Literary References -
British White Cattle - Ancient Breed
History - Misc.
New References
The following are links to ancient literary and historical texts which mention white cows with red ears or white 'kine', which also means cow. Click on the links and use your Edit and Find tabs on the menu bar to locate the text. "The reward of the recital of this story is a white-spotted, red-eared cow, a shirt of new linen, a woolen cloak with its brooch, from a king and queen, from married couples, from stewards, from princes, to him who is able to tell and recite it to them." The Vision of MacConglinne ". . . a perfectly white cow with red ears, and boil it down in
a lump." Irish
Fairy
Tales - Morgan's Frenzy
"There were fifty white red-eared kine (cow) there and each cow
had a white calf at her side. The King had ordered Art, his Steward, to
drive them away. The King of Ireland's Son watched Art and his men trying
to do it. But no sooner were the strange cattle put out at one side of the
field than they came back on the other. Then down came Maravaun, the
King's Councillor. He declared they were enchanted cattle, and that no one
on Ireland's ground could put them away. So in the seven-acre field the
cattle stayed."
Fedelma - The Enchanter's Daughter
". . . insisted on getting seven hundred white cows with red ears. .
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The
Progress of the Wicked Bard ". . . a bull feast was made. A
white bull killed,"
The High King
of Ireland
"They did so, and each bound the other. And Mongan went home and took his thrice (sic)
fifty white kine with
him. And Dubh-Lacha asked: 'What are the cattle that are the most
beautiful that I ever saw? and he who got them,' saith she, '. . .,
for no man got them except for . . . .' And Mangan told her how he had
obtained the kine. And they were not long there when they saw
hosts approaching the place, and he that was there, even the king of Leinster. 'What hast thou come to seek?' said Mongan. 'For, by my
word, if what thou seekest be in the province of Ulster, thou shalt
have it.' 'It is, then,' said the king of Leinster. 'To seek
Dubh-Lacha [25] have I come.'”
The
Conception of Mongán and Dub-Lacha's Love for Mongán
"In the time long ago, there was a king whose name was Conn, that
had the Druid power, so that when the Sidhe themselves came against him,
he was able to defend himself with enchantments as good as their own. And
one time he went out against them, and broke up their houses, and carried
away their cattle, and then, to hinder them from following after him, he
covered the whole province with a deep snow.
"So when the time came, Cuchulain set out, and his men with him, and
they came to a wood near the dun, that had a stream running through it,
and he sent word to Blanad he was waiting there. And Blanad sent him back
word to come and bring her away at whatever time he would see the stream
in the wood turning white. And when what she thought to be a good time
came, when all the men of the place were sent out looking for stones to
build a great new dun, she milked the three white cows with red ears
Curoi
had brought away by force from her father, Midhir, into the cauldron he
had brought away with them, and she poured a great vessel of new milk into
the stream, where it ran by the dun. And when Cuchulain saw the stream
turning white, he went up to the dun. But he found Curoi there before him,
and they fought, and Curoi was killed, the son of Daire, lord of the
southern sea, that had a great name and great praise on him before Blanad
was his wife. " ". . .O forester, whose three hundred snow-white bullocks crop the rich cean brakes . . ." The Georgics of Virgil ". . .save three of them were all white, and one had a black spot. . ." Le Morte d' Arthur ". . . on pain of forfeit for every penny . . . a white bull with
red nose and red ears."
Ceremony at Knightlow Cross References The Irish version of the Historia Britonum of Nennius (Author: [unknown])to the Druids and magical milk of white cows. Excerpt No.1: Drostan, the Druid of the Cruithnians (Picts), ordered that the milk of seven score white cows should be spilled in a pit where the next battle should be fought. This was done, and the battle was fought by them, viz., the battle of Ard-leamhnachta, in Hy-Ceinnselagh. Every one of the Picts whom they wounded used to lie down in the new milk, and the poison of the weapons of the Tuatha Fidhbha did not injure any of them. The Tuatha Fidhbha were then slain. Four of the Cruithnians afterwards died; namely, Drostan, Solen, Nechtain, and Ulfa. But Gub, and his son Cathluan, acquired great power in Eri, until Herimon drove them out, and gave them the wives of the men who had been drowned along with Donn, namely, the wife of Bres, the wife of Buas, &c. Excerpt No.2: If but his blood they shed, So that he wasted away on that account, Whether he were a dog, or whether he were a man. Discovered a cure for those thus wounded, New milk in which were washed Those who lay wounded on the earth. By just Cremhthann the headstrong, Until the herd was milked On the green of Ard-leamhnacht. ************************************************************************************** "Brindle cow, white speckled, ". . . Who offers at your shrine
". . .Beside those tents, Stood the sweet-breathing, mournful,
slow-eyed kine, With hazel-shielded horns, and gave their milk, Gravely to
merry maidens. . ."
and also
". . . share the flesh of the white bull sacrificed on the Alban
mount. . ."
Golden
Bough
'Tell thou a story now, O woman of the house!' said the youth. 'I will,' quoth she, 'and do thou put down a quarter of the wild boar, and a quarter of the log nuder it,' so it was done. 'I have seven white cows,' said she, 'and they fill the seven keives with milk every day, and I give my word that they would give as much milk as would satisfy them to the men of the whole world were they upon the plain drinking it.' The story was true, and the quarter of the pig was therefore cooked. 'If your stories be true,' said Cormac, 'thou indeed art Mananan, and she is your wife, for no one upon the face of the earth possesses those treasures but only Mananan, for it was to Tir Tairrngire he went to seek that woman, and he got those seven cows with her, and he coughed upon them until he learned (the wonderful powers of) their milking, that is to say, that they would fill seven keives at one time." MANANAN MAC LIR: HIS MYTHIC CONNEXION WITH THE lSLE OF MAN.
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