It was the winter after the great oak fell near Ardee, that snow began to fall on the mountains to the east. This made the Tuatha de Anu very weary. For snow had not touched the soil of Hibernia for nearly a thousand seasons. Anu began having horrible nightmares of a foreign race coming to Hibernia and laying siege to its peaceful way of life. They had horrific faces often times hidden in the shadows. Some were tall and bulky while others were short and slender. Their coarse skin was like the scale of a dragon or that of golem.

Anu decided it was time to call upon the Tuatha de Anu to discuss the nightmares that had besieged her. The Tuatha agreed to meet at a place not to far from Caille at the top of a mountain where villagers had erected worship stones. For hours upon hours they discussed this matter and a plot to prevent the fall of Hibernia. The first to speak was Brighid. Tormented by her own ghosts and plagued with the ever desire to partake in war she suggested that the Tuatha