Fao Gness And Anyone Else Who Might Be Interested

[johnny.5]

Hi Gness
you have mentioned a fairy tree
these are mainly an Irish phenomena as far as I know


have you or anyone you know come to any harm after attacking the tree ?
is the tree a blackthorn or Hawthorne as that is what I imagine them all to be
do you ever speak to the faeries ?
have you ever asked them to return anything ?
have they returned it ?

[johnny.5]

it brought this to mind
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/fairy-bush-survives-the-motorway-planners-1.190053

[gness]

Hi, Johnny. The tree we have is a Hawthorn but there are others. The blackthorn as you say and the ash are home to fairies as is the oak.
I grew up on stories of folk coming to harm after damaging a fairy tree or fort....mostly in Mayo but also in Kerry. If you google Danny Healy-Rae, one of our TDs, you'll see how important it is not to mess with the fairies...especially if you don't want your roads collapsing.
Much to the dismay of my children...too much time in the UK....I do speak to fairies.
Some years ago the late MrG and I joined my brother and his family in a cottage just along the road from where we are now. We had flown so I hadn't been able to take my scissors with me....I travel with crafting stuff....and there were none in the cottage. I needed scissors. We were about to drive into town and the two young nephews asked if I was going to buy scissors.
Of course not, I said, I'm just going to ask the fairies for some. We stopped at the end of the lane and as we looked to our right hanging on a tree branch was a pair of rusty scissors. God knows what they were doing there and how long they'd been there but I got out of the car...thanked the fairies....and returned to the car with two stunned nephews who still don't know if Auntie Gness is a magical friend of the fairies....or just plain bonkers.... :-)
I also know that when I'm walking in the mountains I never button or zip up my jacket. Sometimes the fairies will take your feet and get you lost. If you quickly turn clothing inside out it defeats the fairies....you can google that one too..... x

[gness]

Oh and a fairy isn't the pretty little thing with wings that you'll see in a story book.....they are small but fairly ugly as a rule....and very naughty.x

[johnny.5]

yes Gness i did not google about the fairy trees but have read about them and also fairy lights which can be good or malicious taking travelers from the path onto the swamps never to be seen again or quite the opposite taking lost travelers to safety . I think they are also very important in Iceland

[Peter Pedant]

oh in the 21st century the fairies are using methane from the bogs to light up the scenery - not sure where the ignition point comes from

[GenuineclAss]

gness at 22:04

Sounds like me!

[johnny.5]

pp why ignite ?
modern science often explains them as natural phenomena such as bioluminescence or chemiluminescence, caused by the oxidation of phosphine (PH3), diphosphane (P2H4), and methane (CH4) produced by organic decay.

[gness]

We would bring our caravan to Ireland and park it in one of the fields belonging to an uncle.
Very late one night in June 1985 MrG and I with little G between us went through the gap in the hedge to go to the caravan to sleep.
To our left was a large, brilliant display of green lights....lots of them in the shape of a triangle as high as the hedge. They were quite beautiful.
We hurried to the caravan without alarming little G and put her to bed. MrG who was very English and quite new to all things Irish was concerned enough about these lights to say he'd get no sleep. About five minutes later he was snoring away in the land of nod.
I watched the lights for a long time.
We live in a dark sky reserve so the lights were quite stunning. There was a dreadful air crash off our coast that night.....was it the anger of the fairies that caused the lights.....or perhaps just our third glass of poitín...... ;-)

[gness]

Oh, Peter....the fairies would have to go a long way from where we are to find bogs and methane....we're all rock here....just ask Dave who's been trying to dig a hole for a crab apple tree... :-(

Hi, Genuine......I have no doubt that you are very naughty indeed! How are you keeping and coping...x

[johnny.5]

[gness]

Stick to the roads, Johnny? No bloody good just now. Roads are full of guards making sure we don't exceed the 2k limit!

[Barmaid]

Mr Bm takes his chain saw to the hawthorn (but only at certain times of the year - ie never when the birdies are nesting). Does this explain why he married me, had a stroke and has now been on crutches for 5 months?!!!!

[gness]

There can be no other explanation, BM for such a string of bad luck. However we are in the month of May so if, on a bright starry night, he kneels naked beside the hawthorn and apologises to the fairies all will be well......x

[woofgang]

Iceland has its mischievious residents too, only there they live in stones. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-10-12-mn-2866-story.html

[lady-janine]

For the sake of your health and well-being don't forget to say hello each time you pass an elder tree and if cutting the flowers or taking the berries don't forget to ask permission of the witch who lives there first. Most unpleasant things can happen if you don't.

[Barmaid]

Well he's proper shafted then. He cant kneel. And the chances of getting him naked near the hawthorn are on the slim side. As for talking to the fairies, I might be able to achieve that after he has taken a couple of his painkillers (he has had some weird trips!).

[gness]

I shall bear that in mind, LadyJ. Witches are almost as evil as fairies.
BM, in certain circumstances the spouse can perform the ceremony instead of the hawthorn hacker. You could try that perhaps. X

[Barmaid]

Well he is proper shafted then.....

Just sayin!

[gness]

:-)

[ynnafymmi]

Up here in Scotland it is the rowan tree that is the lucky tree.Cut one down at your peril.No good ever comes to anyone who even slightly damages a rowan.I am not superstitious,but.