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Queens: A

Airmed, Airmid (Measure of Seeds, The Moderation)
(pron. AIR-mit, AWR-meet, EER-meet) Túatha Dé goddess of witchcraft and herblore. She and her brother Miach: Honorable went to the castle of Nuadhu: Solar Yew and the porter would not let them in until they proved they could give him a new eye. Airmid and Miach removed an eye from the porter’s cat and transplanted it to the porter’s empty eye socket. The new eye retained its cat’s nature: searching for mice at night, and sleeping during the day.

She collected 365 grasses that sprang from her brother Miach’s grave, realizing that each one is a cure for a disease. Her father spilled the grasses out of her cloak, mixing them up so that the world would not be healed. During the Cath Maigh Tuireadh: Second Harvest (Battle): Plain of Frost (pron moytura) she gathered herbs to cure wounded warriors and to raise the dead in the Health Fountain. She also guards the secret well of healing. (45, 55, 58, 71, 82)


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