goddess dolls RELIGON AND BELIEF — Religious objects. Goddess dolls are dolls made of straw and sticks fashioned to represent the Goddess of Spring, → Homủnre, during the → Hidain → Feilebroc (low winter festival). They are prepared and decorated with bright colors and → winter’s bane (when available; in warmer climates, → dragonferns are used) and are paraded from house to house until they are brought to the center of the village or city and burned. The light of this burning is thought to prepare the way for the Goddess Homủnre (the incarnation of Spring) and mark the coming of spring.