→Samhain: While others partied, Ulster hero Cuchulain was sick in bed receiving an extended vision of ''Mag Mell'', the Plain of Delight, a Celtic version of the Elysian Fields.
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{{cquote|[The young men of Ulster] used to keep that festival every year; nor was there anything in the world that they would do at that time except sports, and marketings, and splendours, and pomps, and feasting and eating; and it is from that custom of theirs that the Festival of the Samhain has descended, that is now held throughout the whole of Ireland.<ref>Maelmuiri mac Ceileachair, "[http://www.luminarium.org/mythology/ireland/cuchulainnsick.htm The Sick-Bed of Cuchulain]." The translation is from ''Heroic Romances of Ireland.'' Vol I. A. H. Leahy, ed.
{{cquote|[The young men of Ulster] used to keep that festival every year; nor was there anything in the world that they would do at that time except sports, and marketings, and splendours, and pomps, and feasting and eating; and it is from that custom of theirs that the Festival of the Samhain has descended, that is now held throughout the whole of Ireland.<ref>Maelmuiri mac Ceileachair, "[http://www.luminarium.org/mythology/ireland/cuchulainnsick.htm The Sick-Bed of Cuchulain]." The translation is from ''Heroic Romances of Ireland.'' Vol I. A. H. Leahy, ed.
London: David Nutt, 1905. pp. 57-85.</ref>}}
London: David Nutt, 1905. pp. 57-85.</ref>}}
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While others partied, Ulster hero Cuchulain was on of his sick bed receiving an extended vision of ''Mag Mell'', the Plain of Delight, a Celtic version the [[Elysian Fields | Elysian fields]].
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While others partied, Ulster hero Cuchulain was sick in bed receiving an extended vision of ''Mag Mell'', the Plain of Delight, a Celtic version of the [[Elysian Fields | Elysian fields]].