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** He is described to be a giant with an eye that could wreak havoc whenever it is opened. | ** He is described to be a giant with an eye that could wreak havoc whenever it is opened. | ||
** Balor is more popularly known in the [[Wikipedia:Cath_Maige_Tuired|Battle of Mag Tuired]] where he is killed by his grandson [[Wikipedia:Lugh|Lugh]] by using a sling-stone to pierce right through his eye. | ** Balor is more popularly known in the [[Wikipedia:Cath_Maige_Tuired|Battle of Mag Tuired]] where he is killed by his grandson [[Wikipedia:Lugh|Lugh]] by using a sling-stone to pierce right through his eye. | ||
*** Balor heard a prophecy from a druid that he would be killed by his own grandson and fear, locked up his own daughter [[Wikipedia:Ethniu|Eithne]] in a tower in [[Wikipedia:Tory_Island|Tory Island]] but was seduced by a man named [[Wikipedia:Cian|Cian]] with the help of his familiar spirit, a [[Leanan Sidhe]] named [[Wikipedia:Biróg|Biróg]], after gaining access to the tower. Eithne gave birth to triplets but Balor gathered them up and tasked a messenger to drown them all in a whirlpool. The messenger does so with two of the babies but unwittingly dropped the last one in the harbor where he was rescued by Biróg. The child grew up as Lugh, the eventual king of the [[Wikipedia:Tuatha_Dé_Danann|Tuatha Dé Danann]] after defeating Balor. | *** Balor heard a prophecy from a druid that he would be killed by his own grandson and in fear, locked up his own daughter [[Wikipedia:Ethniu|Eithne]] in a tower in [[Wikipedia:Tory_Island|Tory Island]] but was seduced by a man named [[Wikipedia:Cian|Cian]] with the help of his familiar spirit, a [[Leanan Sidhe]] named [[Wikipedia:Biróg|Biróg]], after gaining access to the tower. Eithne gave birth to triplets but Balor gathered them up and tasked a messenger to drown them all in a whirlpool. The messenger does so with two of the babies but unwittingly dropped the last one in the harbor where he was rescued by Biróg. The child grew up as Lugh, the eventual king of the [[Wikipedia:Tuatha_Dé_Danann|Tuatha Dé Danann]] after defeating Balor. | ||
**** Lugh's foster father is [[Wikipedia:Manannán_mac_Lir|Manannán]] and he himself is the father of the Irish demigod [[Wikipedia:Cú_Chulainn|Cú Chulainn]]. | **** Lugh's foster father is [[Wikipedia:Manannán_mac_Lir|Manannán]] and he himself is the father of the Irish demigod [[Wikipedia:Cú_Chulainn|Cú Chulainn]]. | ||