Hammer
The hammer denotes formative force, creation, thunder, justice, vengeance, sovereign power, and divine craftsmanship, especially when paired with the receptive anvil.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Irish folklore (1)
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is, or is partly, this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Leprechaun bears Irish folklore
why
He is frequently pictured mending a single shoe, and the tapping of his cobbler's hammer is said to be the sound by which he can be located.