Editing Cailleach (section)

==In popular culture==
* In [[Scottish Gaelic literature]], the Cailleach was famously used to personify the internal [[literary critic]] of 18th-century poet [[William Ross (poet)|William Ross]]. Despite being widely viewed as a, "love-lorn romantic who died of [[unrequited love]]", due to the poet's many versifications of his loss and heartbreak over the 1782 marriage of his beloved Mòr Ros, Ross was also capable of poking fun at himself, as in the self-[[flyting]] poem ''Oran eadar am Bàrd agus Cailleach-mhilleadh-nan-dàn'' ("Exchange of Verses between the Poet and the Hag-who-spoils-poems").<ref>Derick S. Thomson (1993), ''Gaelic Poetry in the Eighteenth Century: A Bilingual Anthology'', [[Association for Scottish Literary Studies]], [[Aberdeen]]. Pages 161-167.</ref>
* According to American [[ethnomusicologist]] Amy Murray, the [[Gaels]] of the [[Outer Hebrides]] sometimes referred to [[Queen Victoria]] as ''"A' chailleach a-stùiradh"'' ("The Hag that's steering").<ref>Amy Murray's (1920), ''[[Allan MacDonald (poet)|Father Allan]]'s [[Eriskay|Island]]'', [[Harcourt, Brace and Howe, Inc]]. Page 5.</ref>
* Morna Young's dramatisation of [[Hans Christian Andersen|Hans Christian Anderson]]'s ''[[The Snow Queen]]'', produced by the [[Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh|Lyceum Theatre Company]], Edinburgh, in November/December 2023, conflates the characters of Beira, Queen of Winter, and the Snow Queen.<ref>Young, Morna, "Author's Note", ''The Snow Queen'' theatre programme, Royal Lyceum Theatre Company, Edinburgh, November 2023, p. 11</ref>
* A version of the Cailleach appears in the 1978 ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story ''[[The Stones of Blood]]'', impersonated by a long-lived alien and worshipped by a modern druid cult.