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FireFlows wrote: For the Irish Folklore~ 3

3 3 1 The Salmon of Knowledge (Fionn, the hero of legend)

This is an interesting one. Figuring prominently in the story of Fionn MacCumhaill, the Irish folk hero of the Fenian myth cycle, the Salmon of Knowledge is supposed to have come into existence when an ordinary salmon ate nine hazelnuts that fell into the Well of Wisdom from surrounding Hazel trees. No word on what the salmon was doing at the bottom of the Well of Wisdom or what was particularly special about those hazelnuts, but long story short, the fish gained all of the world’s knowledge in its flesh. Fionn, the hero of legend, burned his thumb on some searing fish fat while he was cooking it for the poet Finn Eces. As a result, he absorbed all of the world’s knowledge, and for the rest of his life could call upon this knowledge by simply biting his thumb.

