Celtic Folklore Archive
You can also find these articles—and many more—within the main Grimoire Blog.
Folklore is what happens when belief slips its leash.
Before myths were written down and gods were cataloged, there were stories told at hearths, crossroads, and bedside vigils—stories shaped by fear, memory, humor, and the quiet understanding that the world was not as simple as daylight pretended. Folklore is not theology. It is experience distilled into narrative. It is what people told each other when something happened and no official explanation would do.
This archive gathers those stories: encounters with spirits, warnings wrapped in monsters, half-remembered queens, tricksters at the edge of fields, lights that should not have been followed, and voices heard where none should be. Some of these tales brush against gods and known figures. Others are stubbornly local, nameless, or contradictory. Many exist in multiple versions, each insisting it is the true one.
Here, folklore is treated not as superstition, but as cultural memory—a record of how people understood danger, death, hospitality, boundaries, and the unseen forces pressing close to ordinary life. These stories are not here to be proven or debunked. They are here because they were remembered.
IRELAND
Astrology for Witches: Timing Spells with Eclipses & Retrogrades — Learn how witches align their magic with astrology, timing spells during eclipses and retrogrades for transformation, banishment, and deeper cosmic alignment. Explore advanced spellwork techniques and the secrets of celestial timing in witchcraft.
WALES
Astrology for Witches: Timing Spells with Eclipses & Retrogrades — Learn how witches align their magic with astrology, timing spells during eclipses and retrogrades for transformation, banishment, and deeper cosmic alignment. Explore advanced spellwork techniques and the secrets of celestial timing in witchcraft.
GAULISH/CONTINENTAL
Astrology for Witches: Timing Spells with Eclipses & Retrogrades — Learn how witches align their magic with astrology, timing spells during eclipses and retrogrades for transformation, banishment, and deeper cosmic alignment. Explore advanced spellwork techniques and the secrets of celestial timing in witchcraft.
PAN-CELTIC
Astrology for Witches: Timing Spells with Eclipses & Retrogrades — Learn how witches align their magic with astrology, timing spells during eclipses and retrogrades for transformation, banishment, and deeper cosmic alignment. Explore advanced spellwork techniques and the secrets of celestial timing in witchcraft.
Folklore survives because it does not demand certainty.
It changes when it must. It sheds names, borrows faces, and adapts to new fears without ever losing its core purpose—to remind us that the world is not entirely mapped, that some boundaries matter, and that attention is a form of respect. These stories endure not because they are ancient, but because they remain useful.
As you move through this archive, you may recognize patterns repeating under different names, or stories that feel uncomfortably familiar. That does not mean they are copies. It means the same lessons were learned more than once. Folklore is not linear. It circles. It returns.
There is no correct way to read these stories. Linger where you like. Skip what doesn’t call to you. Come back when something does. Folklore has always rewarded those who listen more than once.
Some stories are told to pass the time.
These were told to mark it.
