Badb
Sign in to savethumb|250px|right|Badb would commonly take the form of the hooded crow. In Irish mythology, the Badb (Old Irish, ), or in modern Irish Badhbh (, )—also meaning 'crow'—is a war goddess who takes the form of a crow, and is thus sometimes known as Badb Catha ('battle crow'). She is known to cause fear and confusion among soldiers to move the tide of battle to her favoured side. Badb may also appear prior to a battle to foreshadow the extent of the carnage to come, or to predict the death of a notable person. She would sometimes do this through wailing cries, leading to comparisons with the bean-s
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- Instance of
- war deity
- Part of
- Irish mythology
- Gender
- female
- Mother
- Ernmas
- Sibling
- Banba
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Según la mitología celta, Badb es una diosa de la guerra que podía transformarse en "cuervo". A veces es llamada Badb Catha ("Cuervo de la Guerra"). Se dice que puede también adquirir la forma de lobo Para controlar el rumbo de la batalla, Badb provocaba confusión en los soldados para llevar a un desenlace favorable a sus deseos. Junto con sus hermanas Morrigan y Macha forma una tríada de diosas de la guerra. Otras versiones dicen que Macha y Badb son personificaciones de la misma Morrigan, o simplemente nombres dados a ella.
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