Conneda and the Golden Apples | Celtic Mythology and Folklore 

Oh my… yes I relate to the fool, but a fool who really needs to overcome fear. Absolutely treasure this story Oliver. Thankyou 🙏

Well told story and my God how beautiful is the landscape you are travelling through.

Been to therapy a few times. Reading mythology and good music seem more helpful. Mythology and fairytales are definitely therapeutic.

I myself am a bit of a Campbellian🖤So I am loving all your stories!

You are a wonderful storyteller 😊 Thank you for keeping me company on a cold, windy day in the States. One day, I'll be able to travel across the pond & explore the lands of my ancestors.

Interesting you talk about stories as medicine. I had never heard this but i've heard it twice today. I'm listening to "Great mythologies of the world" by the great courses. In Ancient Egypt, when someone was sick, they thought it was because the order of their body had moved into chaos, so the person would be told stories (creation myths) of the gods conquering chaos and putting the world into order, thinking the story literal medicine that would encourage the body to do the same. My first reaction was to think it ridiculous but...When I got my wisdom teeth out as a kid all I wanted to do was watch Peter Pan. A really bad breakup in college and for a week I only wanted romances with happy endings. Your little blur at the end was very enlightening and got me thinking I need to find ways to more readily incorporate narrative as a problem solving/emotional compass tool. Anxiety and sadness over killing that which has become your friend, is where the connection is for me. Coming up on butcher time on our backyard farm.

my new favorite channel! thank you from Oakland, California

Wonderful. Thanks very much for your story

As usual, a delightful video and fantastic story! I particularly love what you said about these stories living inside us. The image that resonated with me the most was the lonely castle ruin, hiding an entire fairly palace within its crumbling walls. And also the humble hermit, who doesn't know the whole story, but still does his best to help.

It’s also really interesting that the Egyptian Ba-bird should feature in this tale. It suggests that there are indeed ancient connections between Ireland and Egypt. I think this is my favourite story so far. I hope you take this the right way… to me, you’re like a cross between Oliver Reed and Philip Carr-Gomm.

Very well told , fascinating similarities between alot of other folklore stories , bards and story tellers did roam lands can explain alot. Thank you , i appreciate you

This one is bordering on Epic! Had me hooked the whole way. And 22:22 , seamless😉

That part of the story stuck with me, killing one's only friend and guide then the guide becomes his inner voice and keeps helping him in his journey forward. I guess this is about integrating the guide but then also the guide himself needed to be killed off, to be set free by his best friend that was an interesting point there.

Love your story telling. Thankyou

Un conte magnifique. Merci.

💚great story. Thank you again.

You're great storyteller!

Magic. ♥♥🙏🙏😊😊⭐⭐. Spot on about tuning out of the mind and tuning into the heart/gut. Very similar can be said for balancing out the left brain mind with its right creative /intuitive side. Shoot through the centre.

Thanks!

The van is amazing 😊

When you mentioned shaggy horse I noticed strong correlation with legends from my own country - Lithuania. We have story about divine hunchback horse of Perkunas a.k.a God of heaven and thunder. Long story short - Perkunas had lost his most favourite horse because of trickstery of Velinas (God of underworld) and raging storms was washing away entire cities - after all the most beloved horse got lost, so Perkunas was quite not pleased let's say so. During those storms out of nowhere in front of largest and strongest castle which the only one left standing, appeared most ugly and disgusting horse you can imagine - sh***t and blood all over the body, legs looking sideways, maggots dropping down from wounds and backbone deformed so much that if you sit on that horse - your feets will touch ground. So not functional horse in many ways, however king of all kings (owner of the castle) got pity about that poor being and order his servants to heal him or take him out of misery at least. Day by Day horse started to recover and became more and more stronger. After week that horse had strength of thousand horses, that was very useful because during the storms all cities were washed out. Eventually hunchback horse fully recovered from wounds and asked king to be sacrificed in Romuva - that's sacred ground in the heart of oak forest. King tried to negotiate because that horse alone by himself was re-establishing whole kingdom however he understood that if you meet with speaking horse who is talking about Divine Intervention - probably the best option is agree. After some minor hesitation ritual was held and with last blood drop from the heart of that horse jumped out most beautiful stallion, however that stallion still had deformed backbone. Stallion started to sing, heavens opened and Perkunas was reunited with his horse. You may ask - how that horse got so ugly and why backbone was still deformed even after resurrection? Backbone was broken when Perkunas first time was riding on that horse and Perkunas is very massive being and no other horse was able to carry him trough heavens. As mentioned previously God of underworld stole horse and was riding all the way from heaven to the hell trough branches and roots of the Tree of World - in Lithuanian myths there are three worlds connected by tree. Crown for heaven, log for mortals and roots for dead ones.

P.S. answer to your question about personal journey - looks like I took my jump of fire 😅 I am curious what or who is waiting further the way

A good yarn is always therapeutic and what a backdrop. Slainte mhath!

Awesome story and you told it extremely well thank you blessed be.😊loved this ❤️

Fantastic video dude

The hole story had me looking sideways 😂 ❤🇮🇪🤘

I will never underestimate an ugly horse again.

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