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📖 Ancient Restoration In Irish myth the butterfly is related to love, rebirth, & the ancestors. In the Wooing of Étaín an enchantress turns love-rival Étaín into a pink butterfly. After 14 years of storms, she flies into the cup of a noblewoman; she is drunk, gestated & reborn…

In Irish folklore the spider was helped in its nocturnal weaving by fairy spirits. During the day these fairies would travel to the nearest woman's spinning-wheel, bringing her work ill or luck that day.