Submitted Name Revision History

Date	Editor	Change Summary
12/21/2011, 6:31 PM	SeaHorse15
12/9/2006, 8:53 AM	poetic_freedom

Name Badb

Gender Feminine

Usage Irish Mythology, Irish

Pronounced Pron. BIEB

Other Forms FormsBadhbh (Modern Irish; "BIEV"), Baobh

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Meaning & History

Means "crow, demon" in early Irish (and may have originally denoted "battle" or "strife"). In Irish myth the Badb was a war goddess who took the form of a crow. She and her sisters, the Morrígan and MACHA, were a trinity of war goddesses known collectively as the #Morrígna#.

Added 12/9/2006 by poetic_freedom