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Irish authors and their use of Irish mythology in their novels

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question.

So Irish mythology does not do what Bulgarian-vampire mythology does in distracting their Убур, Обур, Вампир vampires with grains, poppy seeds and rice that drive them demented if they do not determine their total numbers (which always delays them to their dawn deaths)!

But is Irish mythology informative, or non-informative, otherwise about whether or not a vampire after a victim is inevitable?

For example, was Dearg due always able to "get her man -- ;-D -"?

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 3, 2026

Stockport, Cheshire. Heritage Walk

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question.

Wow, back to 1540!

Family-History Library genealogists in Salt Lake City, Utah determine doing ancestral lines back 4 generations from the present generation -- you, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents -- generally doable.

Is one line -- maternal? paternal? -- easier than the other?

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 3, 2026

Music Book Review: Gondola by Donna Leon, With CD of Venetian Barcarole, as Baroque Era Title #3

The full names of the Checca, Betta, Catte trio Anglicize as the English first-name quartet Frances, Benedicta, Elizabeth, Catherine.

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 1, 2026

Malay Civets (Viverra tangalunga): Ringtails of Insular and Peninsular Southeast Asia

For those mulling other-language names by range-sharing human populations for Malay civets, there may be Cambodian, Chinese, Philippine, Tamil and Thai monikers alongside what merges from Malay into Brunei-Malay and Indonesian!

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 1, 2026

Herbert River Ringtails (Pseudochirulus herbertensis): Iconic Possums of Queensland, Australia

Any such private- and public-area displays need to niche gum trees (Eucalyptus grandis) and tree ferns (Cyatheales order) even as such plants nestle within the wet sclerophyll (“hard-leaved”) forests on the western edges of Herbert-River ringtail-possum homelands

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 1, 2026

Hose's Palm Civets (Diplogale hosei): Non-Ringtails of Borneo

Hose's palm civets additionally benefit from the exterior and the interior moisture of their food sources.

For example, palm-civet claws and whiskers suggest exterior- and interior-moist mammal-searching sojourns along and in animal-rich streams and around and on moist, mossy boulders.

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 1, 2026

Ring-Tailed Cardinalfish (Ostorhinchus aureus, O. fleurieu) of the Eastern Hemisphere

For those asking about other-aquarium abodes of ring-tailed cardinalfishes, the United Arab Emirates admits among its aquarium-ites the ring-tailed cardinalfish!

The afore-designated sea-world life form dwells in the coral-reef and regional Persian-Gulf displays.

The Sharjah Aquarium is the ring-tailed cardinalfish inhabitation in the UAR.

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 1, 2026

Hose's Palm Civets (Diplogale hosei): Non-Ringtails of Borneo

For those asking about palm-civet drinks, Hose's palm civets defer to the clean, clear waters that their remote habitats domicile.

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 1, 2026

Leighton's Linsangs (Poiana leightoni): Ringtails of Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Sierra Leone

The Pocock article advises that as of year 1907 the genus-species Genetta poensis abided as a scientific-accessible specimen only as a Leighton donation and in the British Museum!

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 1, 2026

Northern White African Rhinoceroses (Ceratotherium simum cottoni): Captive Relicts, Wild Extinctions

For those asking about a native-language word for the afore-appreciated rhinoceros, the Maa word among Maasai language-speaking Kenyans is emuny.

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 1, 2026

Religious Gardens

I have no data on East ponders' choice of gardening schedules, except to say that gardeners' needs at the time of choosing.

frankbeswick, Aug 1, 2026

Stockport, Cheshire. Heritage Walk

I have got our family back to about 1540 in England.

Veronica, Aug 1, 2026

Traditional English Christmas Cake

Traditionally, Sunday roast veg would include carrots, broccoli and one other, which could be mashed carrot with swede or cauli in cheese sauce. I cooked the mashed carrot and swede for my American friend when she came over. She took the recipe back with her

Veronica, Aug 1, 2026

Irish authors and their use of Irish mythology in their novels

I don t think myths discuss specific foods in Irish mythology. I do not know if the garlic part of the myth is a Bram Stoker invention.

Veronica, Aug 1, 2026

Stockport, Cheshire. Heritage Walk

Thank you for your comments below in answer to my previous observations and questions.

My parents and my grandparents appreciated their genealogies even as maternal grandmother Laura Vanderbie (Grandma brown-eyes ;-D) and paternal grandmother Emma Rose Winterbotham (Grandma blue-eyes ;-D) came from respectively Dutch- and English-immigrant families.

My brother and I additionally genealogized a year in the Latter-Day Saints' Family History Library -- open to all faiths, fortunately for us -- in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Latter-Day missionaries there heed English genealogists as the world best!

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 1, 2026

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