BRIGITE

To Brighid

Incantation to Bride
Green Paternoster
Mary's sweet sister,
Who knew every charm
of midwife and healer,
be thou my guardian,
be thou my foster
as long as I say
the Green Paternoster.

I will raise the hearth-fire
Just as Brigid would do.
The encirclement of Brigid and of Macha
On the fire, and on the floor,
And on the household all

-modified from Carmina Gadelica