#FairyTaleTuesday #Mermay #Celtic: `Lí Ban sang and swam for three hundred years more until her singing was heard by a monk called Beoán.

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#FairyTaleTuesday #Mermay #Celtic: `Lí Ban sang and swam for three hundred years more until her singing was heard by a monk called Beoán. He spoke to her and befriended her. The following year she was caught in a net by a monk named Fergus of Mulleague. An argument erupted between both monks as to should own her/convert her when an angel appeared and described two stags that would come and take the mermaid to a place ordained by God to be baptised. As with all supernatural beings in that distant world, once given christian baptism, the outcome proved fatal.
Lí Ban promptly died.
In the medieval illustration, note that the mermaid is clothed in christian modesty.
It‘s not decent, not for a siren.`
Source: https://kinneydesign.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-tale-of-li-ban-mermaid-of-lough.html
Photo: St Brendan and the mermaid
Here’s the backstory: https://hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/116561866516941495