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The Story of the Salmon of Knowledge

The well of sagas is where one of the most famous stories from Irish mythology comes from. In this story when hazelnuts would drop from a tree into the well, little fizzy bubbles would farm around wherever they dropped. The people at the time said no no no, those bubbles were knowledge from the other world. Another story about the importance of the presence of bubbles in Irish holy wells is the story of the river Shan. When goddess Shonok was looking for inspiration she decided to go to that water with the bubbles because the bubbles that's the information from the Other World. She got kind of greedy and tried to swim to the very bottom to find where the bubbles came from but

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