His chapter on the tylwyth teg is a really valuable source of information, but the book seems to be fairly neglected. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account.
You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. A Scottish man taken into a dance under a hill was rescued a year and a day later, but he thought he was still dancing his first dance. In a comparable story from Bruan near Wick the man was only convinced of the duration of his absence by seeing how his baby had grown into a toddler.
Likewise, a Welsh dancer was baffled how his brand-new shoes had been worn away; Two brothers from Strathspey heard fairy music from a sithean , a fairy hill. One wanted to enter, the other did not.
The one who joined the dance was lost and his brother was only able to rescue him a year and day later, protected by a rowan cross on his clothes. When he got outside the fairy hill, he collapsed with exhaustion.
Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Science tells us that fairy rings— or patterns of certain types of mushrooms that grow in circular formations— are naturally-occurring phenomenon that usually appear year after year on lawns, in fields, and in forests. Fairy rings occur when a mushroom spore falls in a favorable spot, grows a mycelium the vegetative part of a fungus , and spreads out an underground network of fine, tubular threads called hyphae.
Mushroom caps then appear at the edges of this network. The formations continue to expand outward, using up all the nutrients within them as they grow larger. A ring found in Belfort, France— the largest ever seen— measures approximately 2, feet in diameter, and is an astounding years old. What then could be so dangerous about a circle of mushrooms? According to many English and Celtic tales, any human who enters a fairy ring will be forced to dance with the creatures, unable to stop until they go mad or perish of exhaustion.
Dutch traditions tell of fairy rings that were created by the devil as a place to keep his milk churn, and any livestock that were to enter said circle would suffer the souring of their own milk. They took him back by force, and could hardly get him to believe that a whole year had passed while he was dancing.
Poor Rhys pined and drooped after this. He soon took to his bed and faded away. In all these tales, a ring of toadstools marks off a space distinct from the human world. Therein lies its fascination, and its peril. Whether the curious human escapes with only bruises or whether his time in fairy territory addles his brain permanently, he cannot stay with the fairies.
For several years I have had the pleasure of teaching dance at the festival of Faerie in Layfette Colorado. This year I thought I would do an authentic faerie dance. I began researching fairy dances and found the fairy ring Scottish ceili dance. The first thing that came up was about mushroom rings dubbed fairy rings.
The legend is that circles of mushroom would pop up where fairies were dancing the night before. In Welsh culture to find a fairy ring was a sign of good luck.
These fairy rings are believed to be gateways to the land of fey.
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