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The druid is equally subject to the land. So, in "Siege of Druim Damgair", before the great battle of the armies of the North and South, Mog Ruith makes the hill on which the army of the North is located to disappear:
“Mog Ruith began to blow up the hill; not one of the warriors of the North could stay in his tent, the storm was so strong, and the druids did not know where it came from. Continuing to blow up the hill, Mog Ruith said the following words: "I circle, I turn again …" And then the hill disappeared, shrouded in black clouds and enveloped in a whirlpool of fog. The whole army was seized with horror, hearing the cries of the soldiers, the noise that the rushing horses and carts made, the clang of breaking weapons, which was heard when a blow was struck at the foot of the hill. Most of the army was plunged into mortal agony; all fell in spirit and perished in despair. " [336 - Rev. celt, 43, 81.]
A similar promise of magical intervention was also voiced at the military council of the soothsayers of the Tuatha de Dannan, before the battle of the Mag Tuired against the Fomorians happened: “Lug asked the sorcerer (ie, the druid), who bore the name Matgen, [337 - From the ancient Celtic "matu-genos" - "son of the bear."] What power he has. He replied that by his will he would overturn the mountains of Ireland on the Fomorians, so that their tops would fall to the ground. He told them that the twelve first mountains of the Irish land would obey the orders of the Tuatha de Dannan and would fight for them …”(§ 78).
In general, the power of the druid, regardless of his specialization, extends to all the elements, and the power of the head of the druids Ulster Katbad and his assistants is described in this way: “Each of those who serve him looks into the sky, watches the clouds and gives an answer to those around him. to his illustrious army. All of them, looking up, cast spells on the elements, and they fight among themselves, and they turn fiery clouds against the fortress and camp of the people of Ireland. "Who is this man there, O Fergus?" Ailil asks. “I know him,” Fergus replies. “This is a storehouse of knowledge, the one that commands the elements, the one that ascends into the heavens, that dazzles the eye, that is able to bind the strength of strangers with his skill as a druid, this is Katbad, a beautiful druid, surrounded by the druids of Ulster.” [338 - Windisch, Ir … Texte, V, 791-793.]
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