Celtic Swan Jewelry Box

The swan, a Celtic symbol of the soul, that aspect of all beings that is eternal. Connected with music and song, swans also helped with dream symbols and spiritual transitions. The swan was also associated with the healing powers of water and the sun. This swan jewelry box makes a perfect “nest” for all your little treasures.

$25

Approximate Size:2½x4½ inches (hxw)

Jewelry Box

This jewelry box has a Celtic swan design burnt into the wood before hand painting in metallic silver. Reeds and a water knot decorate the side of the jewelry box which has a coat of acrylic lacquer to help protect the surface. A decorative box to safely store all kinds of little items, not just jewelry.

Celtic Swan

This is one version of the Irish Celtic legend of the children of Lir:
The king of Tuatha De Danann, Bodhbh Dearg, gave one of his daughters, Aoibh in marriage to Lir. They had four children together. A daughter Fionnuala, a son Aodh, then twin boys Fiachra and Conn that Aoibh died giving birth to. The children missed their mother and the king gave Aoibh's sister, Aoife for Lir to marry.

After a while Aoife grew jealous of the love that Lir had for his children and plotted to get rid of them. She took the children to visit their grandfather, on the way she stopped at a loch and told them to go swimming. Using Druid magic she turned the children into swans and put a curse on them to remain so for nine hundred years; three hundred by their father's home at Loch Dairbreach, three hundred at the Sea of Moyle and three hundred at Inis Gluaire.

They were allowed to keep their human voice and sing with the beautiful music of the sidhe. The children would only regain human form when blessed by a monk and they heard the first bells of Christianity. The sidhe, pronounced shee, were thought to be an ancient race, separate from man, able to shape shift and fly through the air.