The Coming of Angus and Bride
This is from the book, Wonder Tales from Scottish Myth and Legend, by Donald Alexander Mackenzie. While this is not standard lore this IS one of my favorite myth's it has Bride or Brigid, Angus and Cailleach Beira. All the long winter Beira kept captive a beautiful young princess named Bride. She was jealous of Bride’s beauty, and gave her ragged clothing to wear, and put her to work among the servants in the kitchen of her mountain castle, where the girl had to perform the meanest tasks. Beira scolded her continually, finding fault with everything she did, and Bride’s life was made very wretched. One day Beira gave the princess a brown fleece and said: “You must wash this fleece in the running stream until it is pure white.” Bride took the fleece and went outside the castle, and began to wash it in a pool below a waterfall. All day long she laboured at the work, but to no purpose. She found it impossible to wash the brown colour out of the wool. When evening came on, Beir...