Evil is the old religion . Those who return to paganism revert to a wild or half-wild form represented by the human/wolf ?


High King of Ireland , Cormac mac Airt and his association with wolves.

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Cormac's father was Art,son of Conn who fell in battle with the Picts and Britons at the Plain of the Swine. He gave instructions to his wife Achta before the battle "If things go ill with us in the fight, and I am slain, seek out my faithful friend Luna [sic]who dwells in Corann in Connacht, and he will protect thee till thy son be born . On Achta's journey to Corann the child is born . "Her maid turned the chariot aside into the wild wood , and there, on a couch of twigs and leaves, she gave birth to a noble son."
The mother and her handmaid fall asleep in the wood and the son gets taken by a she-wolf who raises him along with her other whelps . Some years later, Luna goes to the wolf's cave and takes the child home. "And the child they called Cormac, or the Chariot-Child. Now the lad grew up very comely and strong, and he abode with Luna in Connacht, and no one told him of his descent.

Cormac is said to have turned to Christianity some years before his death. One account of his death says he choked on a fish bone, but according to Lebar na h-Uidhre, he was killed by the siabhra, or fairy beings, for abandoning the old religion.