Celtic fairy traditions
Aengus Óg
Evans-Wentz associates Aengus with Brugh-na-Boinne and recounts the god’s power over Diarmuid’s body. The author reads these stories through his theory of an ancestral and initiatory cult. A later Fenian tale describes Aengus’s house as immune to burning and plunder while the god lives. Local memory preserves him as the presiding fairy of the Boyne.
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Principal account
ReportedEvans-Wentz associates Aengus with Brugh-na-Boinne and recounts the god’s power over Diarmuid’s body. The author reads these stories through his theory of an ancestral and initiatory cult.
Further detail
ReportedA later Fenian tale describes Aengus’s house as immune to burning and plunder while the god lives. Local memory preserves him as the presiding fairy of the Boyne.
Context & interpretation
Evans-Wentz combines named informants, manuscript narratives, and his own psychical theory in a 1911 survey. This entry preserves those distinctions: collected belief and literary tradition do not establish the physical existence of an Otherworld.
Original passages
Source 1
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Grainn^,^ Aengus, the son of the Dagda, one of the Tuatha De Danann, is called Aengus-an-Bhrogha, and con- ^ nected withOpen this page in the book
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Location recorded at citation review: Celtic fairy traditions; active reader leaf 445
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Source 2
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
we suggest, during an initiation), namely, the house of Aengus Og of the Brugh, and it cannot be burned or harried as long as AengusOpen this page in the book
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Location recorded at citation review: Celtic fairy traditions; active reader leaf 446
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0045-E001
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- IMJ-0045-E001-P0446
- Original scan leaf
- 447
- Recorded leaf number
- 447
- Current Reader position
- 442
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- Source-preserving update confirmed
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