The last day of the ever-living ones
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
G.K. Chesterton
[...]Brigid smiled at hear eager children. “I am allowed to give you one word of warning. When you reach Inisfáil you will find another people who will claim the Island of Destiny as their own. Their are Children of Domnu, who is the sister of our mother Danu [bius]. But beware, for Domnu is not as Danu. For each sister is the inverse of the other, as winter is to summer” [...]
Thus, on the plain where the ancient megaliths stood, thrusting their dark granite skywards, Magh Tureiadh, the Plain of Towers, on the evening of the Feast of Samhain (October 31), the Children of Danu faced the Children of Domnu in batlle.
At dawn, the battle commenced. [...] As time passed, Indech, a Fomorii warrior [...] pointed out that whenever the Children of Danu were slain, or their weapons broken and destroyed, they would be carried from the field and, shortly after, would appear live and well again with their weapons intact.
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That night, however, Octriallach, son of Indech, and several of his companions, came to the spring and each took a large stone from the bed of a nearby river and dropped into the spring until they have filled it. So the healing waters were dispersed.
The Childrem of Danu were now mortal….
