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IRELAND Fairy Folk
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Caption: Visiting Ireland,
you hear tales of
at every turn. Fairy Folk 🧚♂️
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Caption: WISHES At Knocknashee Hill, legend says
to close your eyes, make a wish
and spin three times.
If you open your eyes and
you are facing the hill,
the faeries with grant your wish.
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Caption: HAWTHORN TREE A lone Hawthorn tree is marker for an entrance to the otherworld.
They are never removed or destroyed.
Roadways are re-routed.
Fields are planted around them.
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Caption: FAIRY FORTS 🧚♂️ The ancient
earthen mounds & cairns
where a supernatural race
of fairies or elves live
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Caption: Every
starts with a LEGEND TRUTH
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Caption: 🧚♂️ Most pagan Gods were created
to explain the unexplainable
at the time (ie northern lights) &
to understand the forces of
creation, nature, & death.
These beliefs were passed on
as verbal stories containing
lessons, symbolism & often embellishment
over 100’s of years
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Caption: The Milesians
(the genetic ancestors of Celts) came to Ireland & conquered the Tuatha De Danann,
forcing them to live in the hills
all over the country called
“the side” (shee)
Irish word for fairy. The lore of fairies actually goes back to the early inhabitants of Ireland
Considered a
supernatural race of beings & depicted as powerful wizards
coming from the north.
Tuatha De Danann Their wizardry was an
understanding of nature &
the curative power properties
of plants to be used
to treat illnesses.
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Caption: Christianity brought a new belief.
If you look at the legends of so many cultures,
the pagan gods are minimized and overlayed
with Christian theology.
Almost every major holiday has pagan roots: Christmas, Easter, Halloween
This cross in Ireland is even intertwined
with Gaelic (pre-Christian) symbols
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Caption: 🧚♂️ The pagan gods of Ireland have been
literally shrunk
with the arrival of Christianity,
but maintain their power with magic,
able to bequeath fortune & misfortune,
and either way to be respected.
The pagan Gods lived on
in folklore amidst the
new beliefs of Christianity..
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Caption: The Hawthorn tree was thought
to be part of the Neolithic diet
with medicinal value.
Its flowers were associated with Spring
and the pagan festival of Beltaine.
Christians believed that hawthorn branches
formed the crown of thorns
that adorned the head of
Jesus Christ at the Crucifixion.
Over time, the trees importance
was bequeathed to the
Fairy Folk as markers to their secret world.
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Caption: The fairy forts are the estimated
60,000 earth remains of the
most common form of housing,
livestock holder, & defensive outpost
in Ireland from the late Iron Age,
Bronze Age, Early Christianity and
up to the Medieval era in some places.
They say the fairies are the greatest
protectors of Irish archeology
because farmers refuse to touch them.
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Caption: With just a few of the threads
of the many epics of Irish folklore
that I discovered on my travels,
you can see how the tales
the bards sung became
the legends of fairy folk.
The truth (moral, lesson or warning)
is hidden in folklore
(symbolism, mystery & magic)
from those who would destroy it 🧚♂️
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Caption: And yet, with all the
facts, scientific evidence & knowledge,
the fairy folk live on as
fairy tales, fairy doors, fairy gardens
and legends still told & believed in Ireland
…… and elsewhere. 🧚♂️
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Caption: 🧚♂️ In 1993, fairy doors were discovered in
Ann Arbor Michigan
In 2013, fairy doors appeared in one of Milwaukee’s parks
In 2014, fairy doors sprung up all over
New York City 🧚♂️
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Caption: Why ? Because there are still in the FOLKLORE TRUTHS
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Caption: Moral behavior should be rewarded & naughtiness punished
Plants
have the
power
to heal Nature marks the passage of time
including
the sun (solstices) & flowers (spring) __________________________________ __________________________________
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Caption: Magic .... and maybe we all just
want to Believe in a little bit of ✨ ✨
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Caption: 🧚♂️ How many fairies
did you find
in this
STORY?
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