Dalua and the Amadan-Dhu ?

[CGG]

One of the characters in Fiona Macleod's "The Immortal Hour" is "DALUA. The
Amadan-Dhu". I've checked my own library references and couldn't find anything
about either Dalua or the Amadan-Dhu. Can anyone provide more information for
me? Who is Dalua and the Amadan-Dhu?
- Colin

[hoodedman]

The Amadan Dhu would be 'the dark fool'. I have also seen a reference to
this character in a book (not the one you mentioned) but nothing more. I'd
be curious too!

Janet
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[sidhe...@webtv.net]

Hugh Mynne writes in "The Faerie Way" The encounter with the Dark
Goddess is thus an encounter with our own psychic waste material, our
own "garbage." By facing Her we face our own shadow-self, known in the
Faerie Tradition as the Dark Fool, and Named Dalua.

Also when writing of Willam Sharp/Fiona Macleod he says. "However, the
fruitful symbiotic relationship beteween William and Fiona was not
without its drawbacks. Sharp paid a heavy price for the insight he
gained. One aspect of this price was the periodic bouts of mental
illness he had to endure. His footsteps were always dogged by that
strange being known as Dalua, the Amadan-Dhu (Dark Fool, or Faerie Fool)
'whose touch is madness and death for any mortal: whose falling shadow
even causes bewilderment or forgetfulness.')"

A foot note:

Also Fiona Macleod points out that the Queen Mab of popular faerie
romance is in fact the Dark Queen, Maeve (Mebd, Medbh, or Mabh) of
Scottish/Irish legend..

[Sidheseeker]

I wrote:

(snip)

I forgot to add this:

Fiona Macleod describes the approach of this being;

I am the Fool, Dalua, Dalua!
When men hear me,
Their eyes darken:
The shadow in the skies droops:
And the keening woman cries

DALUA...DALUA...DALUA.

[jasonma...@gmail.com]

Here are some other relevant bits repeated from my queries on the Amadan--some folks here don't seem to know the Yeats and Gregory sources, so this would be useful (Several tales from Gregory here: http://www.emeraldisle.ie/amadan-dubh): and then my queries below

Are you aware of collections or writers that include the Amadan Dubh beyond Augusta Gregory, William Butler Yeats, and William Sharp (aka Fiona Macleod)? I've been aiming to find more. Sharp includes the Amadan in his play The Immortal Hour (1907). Yeats in the Celtic Twlight has the following: “The wife of the old miller said, [. . .] the stroke of the fool is what there is no cure for [. . .] The Amadán-na-Breena we call him!’” (Yeats 113). Sharp sometimes uses the name Dalua too in short stories and poems such as "Dalua" where in a note he also calls him "The Dark Witless One or Fairy Fool." Also in the story "Dalua" he's "the Dark Fool": https://books.google.com/books?id=-scwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA414... Note his ability to turn objects into shadows and insert them into others' minds to foment madness.
https://books.google.com/books?id=-scwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA414... In addition in "The Birds of Emar" (also by Sharp, just to clarify) he calls him "Amadan Dhu" who plays a song "older than the Tuatha De" and is able to render the gods mortal and change their shape. It's a bit of a love story suggesting possible motivations of bitterness for the Amadan, who also puts his black mark on the White Hound. https://books.google.com/books?id=-scwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA414... correspondence with a certain Dr. Goodchild, the professor suggests that Dalua and Dala ("sometimes found with Brat and Death") may have some connection. https://books.google.com/books?id=xp8vAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA427... But then who is Dala? There is Slighe Dala, but that tells little. http://www.irishidentity.com/stories/roads.htm And who is "Brat" for that matter that keeps company with "Death"? I would appreciate any further sources dealing with the Fairy Fool.

[cuckooflow...@gmail.com]

I've been researching Dalua for quite a long time, I'm interested to why you are drawn to him (like me, he has been part of my life for a decade or so). Some interesting points lifted here. Since this thread is quite old, curious to see if anyone is still seeking him out, and what further information has been gathered.

[geraldi...@gmx.de]