claire the fighter
michealt
Ontano Magico
Sun, 03/05/2020 - 15:14
Dh’òlainn deoch ge b' oil le càch e,
refers to an ancient Celtic ritual, consisting in drinking the blood of a friend as a sign of affection (the covenant of blood), a custom cited by Shakespeare (still practiced by all the friends of the heart who exchange blood with a shallow cut and joining the two cuts; it was also practiced for the handfasting in Scotland: once the handfasting was above all a pact of blood, in which the right wrist of the spouses was engraved with the tip of a dagger until the blood spurts, after which the two wrists were tied in close contact with each other with the “wedlock’s band”
all the story in my Terre Celtiche Blog https://terreceltiche.altervista.org/aileen-duinn-brown-haired-alan/
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