NeuKelte on Nostr: #Celtic #FairyTaleTuesday: After the Beltaine-Festival, the herds were booleyed to ...

#Celtic #FairyTaleTuesday: After the Beltaine-Festival, the herds were booleyed to lush mountain pastures, to remain there until Samhain, when they were driven home. “Girls tended the cows through the sweet summer days, living in rough huts called shielings, milking each morning, making butter and cheese, packing the produce into churns to bury in chilly bogs for safekeeping. It was a simple life, full of music, because it was believed that cows gave more milke when serenaded.”
Source: Patricia Monaghan `The Red-Haired Girl From The Bog`