She is known by many names: Bride, Bridey, Brighid, Brigit, Briggidda, Brigantia,and Breet. She is the traditional patroness of healing, poetry, and smithcraft. She is a female solar deity associated with rivers, and wells and has the attributes of inner healing, vital energy, light, inspiration, and all of the skills associated with fire. She is known as The Mistress of the Mantle representing the sister, or virgin aspect of the Great Goddess. She is the Goddess of physicians and healing, of divination and prophecy and in an older incarnation she was Breo-saighead, or fiery arrow, with the attributes of punishment and divine justice. There are three rivers named for her, the Brigit, the Braint, and the Brent in Ireland, Wales, and England respectively. She is associated with the cow and the beginning of spring. She survived Christendom by becoming a saint, the patron saint of smiths, poets and healers. Sir James Frazer wrote of St. Brigid in the Golden Bough, "An old heathen goddess of fertility, disguised in a threadbare Christian cloak."