Show - A- - sAlf CARS' TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING OCTOBER 15 1MJ espe tr ignt Exactly as Predicted in a Strange Old Gaelic Legend of Three Thousand Years Ago ' St 4- t Tht Photograph of "The Lake of the ye Wee Taken a Day Before II Vanished ' - the Gaelie classics is Lugh of Arms who incidentally was a grandson ef Balor although ha was of- heroes of ths Long i ths opposing Tuath De Danann and fighting in their ranks Lugh saw the slaying of Nuada and took it upon himself to avenge hie death Balor law Lugh coming and from the I younr man’s manaclng attituds he knew that hie grandson’ intentions wers not of ths best In ths Hires' fighting that followed Lugh had a great advantage due to th huge length of his arms and after the first few militant exchanges Balor decided he better put the evil eye on the doughty youngster Lugh however had been sitting up nights planning what to do in just such an emergency He dropped hie sword and took up his sling Just as Balor lifted hie eyelid Lugh let go with hi sling He was a superb marksman with this ancient and effective weapon and th discharged (tone caught Balor square in th dreadful eye with auch force that ’the eye was carried through his heed and out at th back The eye fell among his own followers who had been crowding up behind him to jeer at Lugh when Balor destroyed the young warrior with hie celebrate d eye trick But as 1 the eye fell in their ' midst they collapsed and' died in their DiQilrft Are Standing In the Almost Dry Bed of "The Lake of Ue Near Sligo Ireland The Lake Vanished Myaterlontly and Then Two Daja Later Cubed From the Earth Once More Eft” ITH a hissing roar that could b sinking of ths Lake heard away a lake of the Evil Eye is ' in Ireland that covers forty after it The first date is acres completely disappeared one midconnected with the re- -' night a few weeks ago Forty-eighours later and just as mysteriously the cent sinking of the lake 'for It was at the I lake Newspapermen photographers ' and first battle of Magh ' incredulous scientists rushed to the Tuiread between the scene when the disappearance report Firbolgs and the came In Where the waters of the lake Tuatha De Danann had been they fcund a great mud waste that Nuada King of oaths surface of which lay dead thou Jhe Tuatha had hie sands of fish that had lived in the fan- arm severed a cir“ cumstance which by tastically vanished lake Photos were taken of the astonishing rendering him incapascene the reporters wrote their stories ble of retaining nis and the geologists made observations monarchy gave ths When the lake returned there wasi as regency to Breas Some twenty years much astonishment as when it vanished What would cause a lake thirty feet after this event' Nuada was fitted with deep and containing about 52000000 cubic feet of water to disappear and a silver arm which he could use it is said then return? At this writing no scientist has conclusively explained it but with he much efficiensuperstitious folks who know the weird cy as the one ha had and beautiful legends of Erin declare lost This gave him the title he hold hi " they know how this happened The lake Lough ns Suil (the Lake of Irish history Nuada Atrgead-lam- b Nuada of the Silver Arm the Eye) lies in the northwestern part Furthermore It gave' him of the Irish Free State about eighteen miles from the town of Sligo The tradi- back the monarchy the people tion that has made the lake a Mecca for having tired of the notorloue those Interested in old Irish lore date parsimony of Breas in whoss back 8082 years and deals with the reign say the annalists the each century of ita waters knives of his people were not Do the recent strange occurrences con- greased at his tsbls nor did " firm this old folk tale? Those who be- they taste ale at his banquets lieve in it say so fervently Geologists Breas however took his deposi- - merely shrug their shoulders and say: tion angrily going te Scandi“Bah I a silly superstition Such things navia and returning with an army of Femorians led by the always have a reason We will reveal it after ws have time to thoroughly in- m heensuing battle also took vestigate the phenomenon" The linking of the lake attracted place at Magh Tuiread The notice throughout the scientific world date of this conflict as recorded and official permission has been given to in the ancient Irish annals is ths year the Harvard Archeological Mission at of the world 3300 corresponding acpresent in Ireland to conduct excavation cording to Irish chronology with ths ' ' work in the wide extent of territory year 1869 B C The most ancient manuscript extant ' around the lake all of which is covered which relates the story is in the British with the relics of 4000 years ago The tradition has always been that the Museum finely written on vellum by ’ O’Clery about the year lake will disappear Once in each century to recall to the memory of the living the 1460 Irish annalists ancient and modern death of Balor of the Evil Eye This fearsome personage was a famous ScanAgree that the battle marked a greet dinavian chieftain who was killed on ths epoch One of these Tighernach who spot where the lake now lies at the died in the year 1088 stated that the second battle- - of the Magh Tuiread landing of the Firbolgs in 1933 B the beginning of authentic Irish (Moytura) in the year 1869 8 C The recent sinking of ths lske milled history Everything before that date ' to the memory of one of the oldest Sligo he believed was uncertain inhabitants the tale his father related to him about the lake disappearing 112 years ego On that occasion it also mysteriously filled up with water again after A few days The vicinity of the Lake of the Eye for many miles around is dotted with cromlechs huge cairns of stones and ancient pillars and monuments said to have been erected over the bodies of the heroes slain in the second battle of Magh 1 f i f i Tuiread Those who explored the muddy bottom of the empty lake found that th center sf: of it is composed of porous limestone There is no single hole large enough to f 4P 3r ‘1 admit the human hand but it wae found H’ e sucked th was through being that air crevlcea with euch force as to hold th v f O4 foot when placed over on of th holes It is in this that scientist believe th physical phenomenon’s explanation may lifts The lake gets Its name from the fact that this stony center when seen from above bears a striking resemblance to a human eye with a gash in the center legend It is the eye according to the ef Balor of the Evil Eye Balor of the Evil Eye was a famed eta rover and king who went to th V assistance of Breas King of Ireland who had been deposed because of his miserly way of living Nation ever since have been dethroning kings because of their prodigal waye and extravagance d Celts How typical of the that they alone should be so fond of good living that they should refuse to be ruled by a king who pinched th royal ' pennies t the Bms the legend eaysjwes on of th Tuatha D Danann or Children of Goddesi Diana a Gaelic race inhabiting Ireland before the invasion of th Mile-duHe was however related by marI’ I 1 to th Scandinavians or Feipor-ian- s riage ' '-It is a coincidence that the Firbolgs mr win ii who preceded the Tuatha De Danann in Ireland landed in that corn- £?933 B C- - or exactly as many year S Ptrchtd Precariously on Slab Tkl Ancient Stone half-a-mi- le ht -- 4 V I r ”1 tracks Balor was killed by Lugh' sling ehot and the FemorTant scattered falling easy prey to the pursuing and triumphant Tuatha De Danann When the time came to collect the debris th victors found great heap of the enemy around the fallen form of Balor most of them victims of his ’ 4 I : ’ ’ f Gilla-Blabha- - 'i 'i t v s rfn s' r tV bJ4 V v ft A lt -f I- f it ' 2 - s high-hearte- s is 1 4 -- ri !! ’ & Y ns the-tran- M I y otejChristian i ' t - - - A i — t v ft t t Uatm She AW Mark the Craves bf Tuatha De Danann ‘ w r fi nrr" geoud — 4( 4 ii ter quil hand-to-ha- Us Era a thin latest that blood-thirst- f 1 Countless stories and legends persist In Gaelio literature and folk lore regarding the two battles of MaglrTuireaa and them whir toot-pa- rt in them but none of these excels in interest those of Balor and his lethal eye Balor so the tales go bed on one occasion looked upon the Norse god of war but with only on eye having taken the ' precaution to close the other That peek resulted in th open eye becoming posg sessed of a venomous and power All who gazed upon that dread- ful orb died immediately The word baleful meaning full of hurtful -- influence is derived from the legend of Balor and Arrow ea This Map of Ireland Shows iho hie terrible optic Location of tha Mysterious Body of To avoid killing off all his Water That Disappears Century in r friends and supporters Balor ’ Accordance With the Every Balor Legend excovered Evil his Ey kept cepting wherf he went to war evil eye which mysteriously continued battle Like a to live and still cast its in and engaged all death ray of today this eye who ventured within its spell upon range ’ felled all who looked into its The problem of how to get rid of the deep dark and mysterious iris was propounded to th wnomey But it was only when Balor Druids who after several consultations found himself in a "tough spot" declared that water wae ths only solu—as ths slang of today has it— tion A huge pit was dug around and that ha employed this extreme- under the eye and the bodies of th dead ly lethal organ even in battle a nearby stream was diverted from its A vainglorious warrior and course and thus was formed Lough na proud of his nickname - of Suit the Lake of the Eye th name "Balor of the Stiff Blows" the which it bears today And when in accordance-witgreat Norse warrior preferred this winning battles by dint of in- oldest tradition the water sank out of dustrious use of his hugs sword sight this year the center limestone at and ponderous battle-ax- e the bottom was seen to have the -J It wae when these mighty ance of a huge eye with a great appearid gash weapons failed him and when th middle he wee pressed on all sides by Oddly enough in Bulgaria there is y enemies which according to tradition has lk Balor uncovered his fearsome an even more sinister reputation than eye and stared through it et the “Leke of thi Eye’" his suddenly terrified foes All This lake is near Varna Each around him they dropped as the on St Elias’s day no native man oryear girl power of that orb shriveled dares to swim in it because of the legend much with them up he promptithat says that annually on that day a tude as death overwhelmed human being will be drowned in th those who had the misfortune lake— sucked under the eurface by the t to gaze upon th face of th greedy spirit that dwells at ths bottom Medusa This year a beautiful Bulgarian The Femorians were defeat- - decided to brave th tradition On girl St ed in the battle but that was no Elias’ day she announced to a group fault of Balor according to tha of her young friends'1 that aha would accounts that havs corns down prov that the legend was merely the ’ - to' us He was everywhere gabble of fishwives hacking and hewing away with They tried to dissuade her but! she the strength of ten men Insisted on wading into There was a terrific waters of the lake then swimming out jf him combat between and towards the center About a hundred v the King of th Tuatha Da feet from shore (he suddenly disap- - ' Danann which resulted la the peared from view Her body was not death of Nuada - But Balor did ‘ recovered “Coincidence!" cry thos not have n chance to rejoice who laugh nt legends But ths super- ‘ Died f the atiUoua declare it wan fat that drew Very long In Ida victory death-dealin- -- BatU of the Magi TuirexL t — 74tnntiMiwta-iBaetaan"- t M — 4‘ ' ’ ' ' — imtert ef hCthgir!to hegrfettlu — t- t i - |