Ivys's domain... Superstitions and wives tales

Fairy

.....Fairies are associated with Arcadian landscapes of streams and the woods often found in flower beds and gardens.... Though they may also be attached to certain families.

.... They are often depicted as mischievous and vain... According to different accounts, fairies are fallen angles, the spirits of the prematurely dead or the last survivors of a race of tiny beings who inhabited celtic lands long ago.

.....Threating small children that the fairies would come get them was a favorite ruse of parents for many centuries to get their children to stop misbehaving... Inhabitants of rural areas learned to shun places where fairies were reputed to gather, but greatly prized any fossil sea urchin they found, believing that these were really fairy loaves or homes.

.....Tales that still are believed today , that great care should be taken to avoid dark green fairy rings in the grass which mark the place where fairies have held a circular dance at midnight. . We know today of course, the dark green rings in the meadows are actual caused by a fungus in the grass.

I.M.Summers