Are there fairies in Ireland?
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Dont listen to people like cheese!! There are fairies in Ireland and Scotland. That is basically where they come from and live at. My aunt went to Ireland/Scotland and she was in the stone circles and she had her arms out and the energy that was in the circles was coming out of her hands she got it on picture. If i can ill send it to you. The fairies are very mischeavous creatures and they live under the lochs in the sea. They also live in oak trees, especially when there are holes in the bottom of the tree, they also like to play in fairie circles "mushroom rings" dont ever step in one at night because the fairies will take you to their world and what seems like maybe 7 minutes will be like 7 years here. And one more thing dont ever eat the food there because then you are their prisoners.
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Believe it or not, you can report them to your local council. Fairies aren't given any special treatment, and have to abide by civil law just like the rest of us. Try taking a video of them as evidence of their raucous behaviour. I had an angry mob of them the other week near my compost heap. They were drinking home-made elderflower wine and swearing profusely. Two of them are now on ASBOs and that seems to have worked.
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People who think they're fairies.
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The Irish brought the tradition of the Jack O'Lantern to America. The original Jack O'Lantern was not a pumpkin. The legend goes back hundreds of years in Irish History.\nJack O'lanterns weren’t always Pumpkin , and Halloween wasn’t always Halloween. This celebration began as a pagan festival called Samhain, when Celts would walk around with various root vegetable lanterns to guide the roaming dead to the next world. They also carved spooky faces into them (the lanterns, not the dead) to keep malignant spirits away.
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FAIRY\n\nA fairy, or faerie, is a spirit or supernatural being that is found in the legends, folklore, and mythology of many different cultures. They are generally human like in their appearance and have supernatural abilities such as the ability to fly, cast spells and to influence or foresee the future. Although in modern culture they are often depicted as young, sometimes winged, females of small stature, they originally were of a much different image: tall, angelic beings and short, wizened trolls being some of the commonly mentioned fay. The small, gauzy-winged fairies that are commonly depicted today did not appear until the 1800s.\n\nEtymology\n\nThe words fae and faerie came to English from Old French which originated in the Latin word "Fata" which referred to the three mythological personifications of destiny, the Greek Moirae (Roman Parcae, "sparing ones", or Fatae) who were supposed to appear three nights after a child's birth to determine the course of its life. They were usually described as cold, remorseless old crones or hags (in contrast to the modern physical depiction). The latin word gave modern Italian's fata, Catalan and Portuguese fada and Spanish hada, all of which mean fairy. The Old French fée, had the meaning "enchanter." Thus féerie meant a "state of fée" or "enchantment." Fairies are often depicted enchanting humans, casting illusions to alter their emotions and perceptions so as to make themselves at times alluring, frightening, or invisible. Modern English inherited the two terms "fae" and "fairy," along with all the associations attached to them.\n\nA similar word, "fey," has historically meant "doomed to die," mostly in Scotland, which tied in the with the original meaning of fate. It has now gained the meaning "touched by otherworldly or magical quality; clairvoyant, supernatural." In modern English, the word seems to be conjoining into "fae" as variant spelling. If "fey" derives from "fata," then the word history of the two words is the same.\n\nStrictly, there should be a distinction between the usage of the two words "fae" and "faerie." "Fae" is a noun that refers to the specific group of otherworldly beings with mystical abilities (either the elves (or equivalent) in mythology or their insect-winged, floral descendants in English folklore), while "faerie" is an adjective meaning "of, like, or associated with fays, their otherworldly home, their activities, and their produced goods and effects." Thus, a leprechaun and a ring of mushrooms are both faerie things (a fairy leprechaun and a fairy ring.), although in modern usage fairy has come to be used as a noun.\n\n\nPIXIES\n\nPixies are mythical creatures of English folklore, considered to be particularly concentrated in the areas around Devon and Cornwall, suggesting some Celtic origin for the belief and name. In regional dialect, these mischievous little folk are sometimes referred to as piskies/piskeys or the little people. They are usually depicted as wingless, with pointed ears, and often wearing a green outfit and pointed hat. Sometimes their eyes are described as being pointed upwards at the temple ends.\n\nMythic origins\n\nOne myth states that pixies were a race of people who were not good enough for Heaven or bad enough for Hell and were therefore forced to remain on Earth forever. Another legend claims that they were Druids who resisted Christianity and were subsequently sentenced by God to grow smaller and smaller until they accepted Christianity.\n\nMore recently a theory has developed that they are named after the nation of Picts that inhabited Scotland during the post-Roman period, whom some believe are descended from an indigenous group of people predating the arrival of the Celts in Britain during the Iron Age, the word 'pixie' ap
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Abso-freakin-lutely!  Can't you see them?  Ever go walking in the woods & come across a small clearing, or a small grove near a pond - and it just looks enchanting?  That's where they live!  You can also send them as messengers - I send love fairies to friends all the time!
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Ireland if you watch the tourist board's advert.
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my friend does. she said she saw a fairy. but thats hard to believe. anyways. not really. my fav. character is tinkerbell. that little fairy.
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I remember one winters night in the west of Ireland there was no moon and no cloud cover and a fresh white covering of snow over the fields. I walked out down the lane and the whole place was lit up light day from the starlight alone. Absolutely beautiful.
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I believe in faery's, if you really want to connect with them trying connecting into the fairy realm there are many books available out there that can help you with this. They are amazing people and my life wouldn't be the same without them. There beauty is beyond beautiful!
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oooh, have u read Artemis Fowl, there's a fairy code in there and at the bottom of each page is a line in fairy language, and u have to decode all the lines on every page.\nwww.artemisfowl.com\nand there's leprechaun, pixie, wants, wings, phlegm, etc. for ur fairy related words.
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The Tuatha Dé Danann came to Ireland from four cities on four islands in the North; Murias, Falias, Gorias and Finias, bringing with them The Four Treasures, also known as The Hallows of Ireland.\n\nFrom Falias was brought the Stone of Fal (Lia Fáil), The Stone of Destiny which was supposedly located near the Hill of Tara in County Meath. It used to cry out beneath every king of Ireland. Said to hold Ireland above the waves. The Druid who lived in Falias was named Morfessa.\n\nFrom Gorias was brought the Spear of Destiny (Spear Luin). The Druid who lived in Gorias was named Esras. It was forged by the Smith of Falias for Lugh to use in his fight against Balor. No battle was ever sustained against it, or against the man who held it.\n\nFrom Findias was brought the sword of Nuada. The Druid who lived in Findias was named Uscias. No one ever escaped from it once it was drawn from its deadly sheath, and no one could resist it. A bronze sword in the National Museum in Dublin claims to be this sword.\n\nFrom Murias was brought the Dagda's Cauldron, the Coire Anseasc ("Undry Cauldron"). Semias was the Druid who lived in Murias. The cauldron was bottomless, capable of feeding an army. No company ever went away from it unsatisfied. Said to be able to heal the sick and raise the dead.
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In Paganism, they are...\n\nAccording to Animal Wisdom by Jessica Dawn Palmer:\nOf the South\nOf the Air Element\nAssociated with Mystery, Mirage, Deception and protection received thereby, magick, the land of faeries
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No - but I'd love to go and see Ireland play too- BOD rocks!!!
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THE Irish, according to the saying of a wise man of the race, are the last of the 305 great Celtic nations of antiquity spoken of by Josephus, the Jewish historian; and they alone preserve inviolate the ancient venerable language, minstrelsy, and Bardic traditions, with the strange and mystic secrets of herbs, through whose potent powers they can cure disease, cause love or hatred, discover the hidden mysteries of life and death, and dominate over the fairy wiles or the malific demons.\nThe ancient people used to divine future events, victory in wars, safety in a dangerous voyage, triumph of a projected undertaking, success in love, recovery from sickness, or the approach of death; all through the skilful use of herbs, the knowledge of which had come down to them through the earliest traditions of the human race. One of these herbs, called the Fairy-plant, was celebrated for its potent power pf divination; but only the adepts knew the mystic manner of its preparation for use.\nThere was another herb of which a drink was made, called the Bardic potion, for the Bards alone had the secret of the herb, and of the proper mode of treatment by which its mystic power could be revealed. This potion they gave their infant children at their birth, for it had the singular property of endowing the recipient with a fairy sweetness of voice of the most rapturous and thrilling charm. And instances are recorded of men amongst the Celtic Bards, who, having drunk of this potion in early life, were ever after endowed with the sweet voice, like fairy music, that swayed the hearts of the hearers as they chose to love or war, joy or sadness, as if by magic influence, or lulled them into the sweet calm of sleep. Such, according to the Bardic legends, was the extraordinary power of voice possessed by the great Court Minstrel of Fionn Ma-Coul, who resided with the great chief at his palace of Almhuin, and always sat next him at the royal table.\nThe virtue of herbs is great, but they must be gathered at night, and laid in the hand of a dead man to hold. There are herbs that produce love, and herbs that produce sterility; but only the fairy doctor knows the secrets of their power, and he will reveal the knowledge to no man unless to an adept. The wise women learn the mystic powers from the fairies, but how they pay for the knowledge none dare to tell.\nThe fairy doctors are often seized with trembling while uttering a charm, and look round with a scared glance of terror, as if some awful presence were beside them. But the people have, the most perfect faith in the herb-men and wise women, and the faith may often work the cure.\nThere are seven herbs of great value and power; they are ground ivy, vervain, eyebright, groundsel, foxglove, the bark of the elder-tree, and the young shoots of the hawthorn.\nNine balls of these mixed together may be taken, and afterwards a potion made of bog-water and salt, boiled in a vessel, with a piece of money and an elf-stone. The elf-stone is generally found near a rath; it has great virtues, but being once lifted up by the spade it must never again touch the earth, or all its virtue is gone. (This elf-stone is in reality only an ancient stone arrowhead.)
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No, Ireland is a predominantly Catholic country.  Of course Catholics are against abortion, but cannot offer any ideas as to what we should do with all the unwanted children.  There are not enough foster homes or orphanages to take care of them.
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I'm going to have to go with Angels. I have read a few books on Angels and I guess they are more excepted as being real while fairies are in the same catergory as leprachuans. OK. I am going to tell you the truth. I believe in it all. Faeries, leprachuans, hollow earth. All of it. \nLove & Light\nSharon