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I first came across these strange and often crude figures
in 1973,
while following E.E. Evans' pioneering Prehistoric and Early Christian Ireland
- A Guide (1966).
For forty years I researched them in the field, in the bowels
of the National Museum of Ireland
(where they were hidden out of Christian sight)
in museums at Drogheda and Athlone, in storehouses in Cardiff and Limerick,
on Irish castles and, most importantly,
on churches in England, France, Spain, Italy and Portugal.
I
am grateful to Julianna
Lees (www.green-man-of-cercles.org),
Tina
Negus
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/84265607@N00/sets/72157600159376057/),
John Harding
(www.sheelanagig.org),
Sean
Breadin, photographer
Joël
Jalladeau and
Jacques Martin
(http://jalladeauj.fr/obscenite/index.html),
for several important
photos on these pages.
'Prudery
is the worst form of Avarice'
Stendhal
'La pruderie est une espèce d'avarice, la pire de toutes'
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- Antonio Dominguez Leiva, Reader in comparative literature at the University of Burgundy, Dijon. sheela-na-gigs |
updated March 2022