The book is divided into the following sections about Cailleach. Pagan Portals The Cailleach by Rachel Patterson I have received this book in exchange for my honest review and I thank the publishers for taking their chances with me. I highly recommend this book if you want to dive in a mystical world where everything is possible, even a very famous loch's creation, or if you want to understand the origins of some myths that we know of today coming from the Druid, Celtic world. The story was well researched and has as well the personal experience of the author with the Cailleach. Very well written the book has brought forth a fascinating, magical world of the gods from the past, in particular of the 'hag' Cailleach. The book was very interesting and educational and has increased my appetite for history, folklore and mythology. I can see from where some of the myths of shape shifting might have come. I found it fascinating in how many ways the Cailleach was described through times and in different areas or how influential she was to the people's daily lives. The author, Rachel Patterson, a self proclaimed kitchen witch, did a great job bringing the legends of the Cailleach together. I am not a huge fan of non fiction but I am a huge fan of myths, mythology and origins of things as we know them today.

The Cailleach was a huge surprise for me. I have regular blogs on Patheos Pagan (Beneath the Moon) and Witches & Pagans (Hedge Witch) My craft is a combination of old religion witchcraft, wicca, kitchen witchery, hedge witchery and folk magic. It is also my pleasure to contribute articles regularly to the Pagan Dawn, Magical Times and Fate & Fortune magazines. I am High Priestess of the Kitchen Witch Coven and an Elder at the online Kitchen Witch School of Natural Witchcraft. I regularly give talks to local pagan groups and co-run open rituals and workshops run by the Kitchen Witch Coven. I love to learn, I love to study and I have done so from books, online resources schools and wonderful mentors over the years and still continues to learn each and every day but I have learnt the most from actually getting outside and doing it. I am a witch.have been for a very long time, not the green skinned warty kind obviously.the real sort but I am also a working wife and mother who has also been lucky enough to write and have published a book or eighteen.