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A cattle raid during the Swabian War, 1499. Cattle raiding is the act of stealing live cattle, often several or many at once. In Australia, such stealing is often referred to as duffing, and the perpetrator as a duffer.
Cú Chulainn in battle, from T. W. Rolleston, Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race, 1911; illustration by J. C. Leyendecker. Táin Bó Cúailnge ( Modern Irish pronunciation: [ˈt̪ˠaːnʲ bˠoː ˈkuəlʲɲə]; "the driving-off of the cows of Cooley "), commonly known as The Táin or less commonly as The Cattle Raid of Cooley, is an epic from ...
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Cú Chulainn ( / kuːˈkʌlɪn / koo-KUL-in [1] [2] Irish: [kuːˈxʊlˠɪn̠ʲ] ⓘ ), is an Irish warrior hero and demigod in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, as well as in Scottish and Manx folklore. [3] He is believed to be an incarnation of the Irish god Lugh, who is also his father. [4] [5] [6] His mother is the mortal Deichtine ...
Mar 2, 2018 · Cattle raiding, a longstanding practice among pastoralists in South Sudan, was historically governed by cultural authorities and ritual prohibitions. However, after decades of on-and-off integration into armed forces, raiders are now heavily armed, and military-style attacks claim dozens if not hundreds of lives at a time. Beginning with the emergence of the infamous Lou Nuer “White Army ...
- Hannah Wild, Jok Madut Jok, Ronak Patel, Ronak Patel
- 2018
Detail of Desmond Kinney’s 1974 mosaic mural of the Irish epic “Táin Bó Cúailnge” (the driving-off of cows of Cooley), sometimes rendered as “The Cattle Raid of Cooley” or simply “The Táin”, in Dublin. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tain_Mural_-_Horns_(1).jpg
Jan 26, 2022 · KAABONG, Uganda. The stench of livestock lingered in the empty enclosure made of thorny branches where Aomet Lokong stood, a kraal head without any cows. Armed rustlers raided Lokong’s communal kraal, or cattle enclosure, in northeastern Uganda’s Kaabong district in late November and stole nearly 1,000 cows, local officials said.
Feb 28, 2020 · Cattle rustling or raiding is no longer a cultural practice, but a form of organised crime committed by international criminal networks. It is facilitated by an increasing proliferation of weapons, according to a study by ENACT transnational organised crime researchers at the Institute for Security Studies.
