Who is The Grogoch? Will he help Niamh?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The grogoch is one of the most loveable characters in The Sword of Air.  But where does he come from?  His origins can me found deep in Irish mythology.  Half fairy, half human, with strange magical powers. Will he help Niamh and her friends escape? Or betray her to the Raven Queen?

A very small creature covered in reddish fur, he wears no clothes, but sports a variety of twigs and dirt from his travels. Timid in nature, he rarely leaves the forest so sightings of him by humans are very rare.

In myth his home was often a cave, hollow or cleft in the landscape. The grogoch in The Sword of Air lives in a magical treehouse. Niamh and her friends travel to find the grogoch on horseback after her adopted grandmother is brutally murdered by the Raven Queen’s Fomor army.

The grogoch has the power of invisibility and likes to borrow people’s belongings – usually without them knowing(!)

His favourite food is pumpkin which he grows himself. He makes Niamh a spiced pumpkin hot chocolate to help her sleep. It’s the most delicious thing she’s ever tasted!

He is the only creature alive other than The Raven Queen who knows the location of the Stone circle, the magic portal to the faery realm. Niamh and her friends will be hunted down and killed by the Fomor army searching for them if they can’t get help from the magical Fae in time. The Raven Queen has sworn him to secrecy. He’s so terrified of her that no one has ever been able to get the grogoch to revel the location of the stone circle.

Outcast by both the human and faery world the grogoch longs for a friend more than anything else in the world. When Niamh gives him the name Finn he attaches himself to her. But will Nimah’s offer of friendship be enough to persuade the grogoch to risk his life by taking her and her friends to the stone circle?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finn’s recipe for Pumpkin Hot Chocolate.

Ingredients:

Serves 2

1/2 cup milk (from grogoch’s own cow)

1/3 cup heavy whipping cream (handmade by grogoch from cows milk)

1 tsp cocoa powder

1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin puree (grogoch’s home-grown pumpkin)

1/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

1/4 cup whipped cream (handmade by grogoch from cows milk)

1 pinch ground cinnamon

1 pinch ground nutmeg

Method:

1) Whisk milk, cream and cocoa powder together in a pan for 3-5 minutes over a medium heat until hot chocolate is smooth.

2) Stir in pumpkin puree, the pumpkin pie spice and a pinch of grogoch magic.

3) Pour hot chocolate into 2 mugs.  Top with whipped cream; sprinkle cinnamon and nutmeg over whipped cream.  Best served with a slice of the grogoch’s home made pumpkin pie.  Sit back and relax!

 

 

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