Candlemas, Imbolc, Brigid's day, Feb 1. The sheep are beginning to give birth to lambs (according to some accounts) and Brigid helped them.
She was also a smithy, making things of metal, like jewelry, lamps to light the way, and the needed and ornamental metalwork of the country life.
She was a healer, a midwife.
She was a poet.
She taught the Irish to keen when they lost love ones.
She taught them how to whistle, like birds when in ambush in the woods, so the unseen friends could notify each other of coming danger.
She reminds us that women were the ones who invented fire making, and passed the knowledge to their descendants.
This figure's size is just 7 inches tall.
