Fairy Folklore of County Clare
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- A short film about the survival of fairy folklore in the West of Ireland. Shortlisted for the Dingle Irish Film festival Shorts Category.
Made by Tess O'Shea.
Interviews (in order of appearance):
Eddie Lenihan | Ed is a folklorist and collector of Fairy Tales, you can see his books and stories here eddielenihan.w...
Bridie Morgan
Francis Whelan
Bridget Carroll
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To think?? You never know if anything is real until it becomes your reality, I love this. And even if you were on shrooms like they say you experienced a trip that influenced you to come to America and create these beautiful gnomes!
I am Welsh. One day I climbed a hill and at the top was a meadow with an ancient tree. Every 4 to 6 years these giant toadstools would grow from it's base and us locals would go to look. Well this one year I went up there to see and a tiny, not more than 1 ft being poked his head from behind the toadstool. His skin was green. His clothes were green and brown. He smiled and waved at me and then was gone like a wisp of smoke. I will never forget him. He remains with me 50 years later as a precious encounter. Faerie folk exist.
I wonder were it went...perhaps they live in a different dimension and are probably wary of humans, no wonder we can be quite ignorant and dangerous. I follow a channel here on UA-cam called beyond creepy that reports all kinds of unusual encounters with different things from moving trees and gremlins to werewolf type creatures and bigfoot. They can't all be nonsense and hearsay. I believe sometimes people genuinely encounter something they don't understand.
.....one easy I climbed a hill and smoked some killer herb...... Geesh
I’m an artist, I would love to draw him, if you could describe him more in detail I can do my best
@@sixfeetundertheradar6080 He was between 10 - 12 inches tall. His skin was a darkish green. Not bright sap green. More like moss colour. His eyes were large and sparkled even though they were either darkest brown or black. His features were sharp but not old and he wore a cap that pointed forward that looked as if it were made of overlapping leaves. His clothes were the same. Overlapping and all were green with tinges of brown. He was slender, fragile. I didn't see his legs or shoes just the upper body, waist. I will never forget him. I was meant to see him that day. Hope to again in this world or the next. Much later in life I moved to the USA and became the only gnome maker in the USA and only 1 of 2 in the world that sculpted and reproduced extremely rare clay gnomes. (Kimmel Gnomes). I did that for 20 years with no knowledge of sculpting or ceramics but was able to take it up with almost no learning curve. Don't know if connected somehow but there it is. Thank You!
@@Candy-ji1sr That's awesome that the experience perhaps influenced you with making the gnomes. I love creative people who make quirky or unusual things! I was never any good at drawing or art but I'm not too bad at making daft box puppets or sock puppets lol I also seem to have a knack for making up unusual names for characters I invent and my own strange words e.g a galooga popel floffin egg laid by a gribdinik papodycoodies chicken. Sounds like absolute nonsense and it's just gobbledygook but some people find it quite amusing and I enjoy making up strange creatures with outrageous names
My Granny swore the fairies were real. Today it is still written into deeds of homes, that the bushes are not to be removed.
Is it all bushes, or only a specific kind?
So did mine and now I'm a granny myself and I tell all the magical stories to my grandchildren that was told to me and they believe just like I did and still do don't interfere with the fairys and there forts people say they don't believe in that kind of nonsense but I dare any farmer to destroy a fairy fort No way they wouldn't touch them
I wish your granny was mine
so my granny in mayo
@@meganscureman Hawthorn bushes mainly
I wanna sit down for tea with that old lady and just listen to her stories
the gentleman with the big bushy beard is/was an author and storyteller and would do sittings for groups. I was in ireland back in 07, and the school group I was with had the honor of sitting with him with a roaring peat fire at sundown while he shared stories. That itself was magic, but it makes you realize just how real the magic is when you get to enjoy sharing that time with someone who wants to enlighten you about their culture and something special to them.
We (me, my wife and 3 girls) stopped in Donegal for a week once in a cottage rented out by the family of a friend of mine who was from over there. His Aunty Mary came around every day with a plate full of scones and in the evening for a game of Queenie with old pennies. The girls loved it. Irish people are wonderful and so is Ireland. Long may it be that way.
@@chesterite74 I love Eddie. I went to listen to one of his talks about the faerie people few years ago, it was marvelous. We live in the same county so I used to see him in Ennis a lot. He's always in his own world.
As 5yr old 50 years ago I peeked out the window at my nanas house at dawn and saw about 4 or 5 little people playing around her letter/milk box.
No one would believe me except my nana who said that ‘I had a touch of the Irish’. and that’s why I could see them.
I can still picture them in my mind as clear as I did that day.
how little were they?
@@ata5855 about 12”s. Climbing in and out of the milk box.. and running around it. The empty milk bottles had been taken out. My nana did say when I told them..that the full bottles when she collected them were out of the box.
Cathy, thank U so much for sharing this story with us ❤️🙏
I believe U.
Greetings from germany, Caroline :)
I remember reading a lovely story in a book of ghost stories, no less, that talked about people finding these tiny stone fairy crosses. I think it was in England or Ireland. There was a lovely legend about it, that the crosses were made of fairies' tears. They were dancing when they heard about Christ's death. Then they all broke down crying and each tear became one of these little crosses. I always thought that was one of the loveliest stories I ever heard!
@@cathy14cs leprechauns, brownies, or sprites?
Look, even if the faeries aren't real (I believe they are, though!), the fairy forts shouldn't be cut down anyway. They're still an important part of the culture and history of Ireland
The people who believe, know not to mess with the fairy forts
The people who do not know
Pay the consequences dairly
I think that the White Thorn bushes are also supposed to be an indication of faery folk. They grow up quickly, and can be very destructive. They easily pull clothes, fur and flesh, and make people want revenge.
But fairys are real just like magic only no one can teach you magic you have to remember how to use it and that knowledge is locked in every cell in your body
@Haru X what can you not read
If you like faeries look up Erwin Saunders on UA-cam. Obviously not real but really well done and very endearing.
I've met many people in Ireland, including young poeple, who have seen the fairies. An earlier generation took them for granted, and it's not so common now. But yes, people still do see the fairies.
Same for me in France. Many people. Very sane minded people. Some of them were really surprised. People will become closer to nature again someday, and they will learn to feel, to hear and see again .
Will ya fuck off with that bullshit and stop embarrassing yourself ...
@@Unborn-Stillborn it's fun bullshit
At 67 I've seen alot of things but no fairies. I hope I do before I leave this earth.
I used to live across the street from a little patch of woods. A screech owl lived in it, I would listen for it's call every night. Right about at dusk, little tiny lights would appear in the underbrush and bushes all along the edge of the woods. They wouldn't move around like fireflies but we're stationary, as if the fairies were lighting their lanterns with the dusk. It was wild and magical!
Lol It's called 'pixie dust'
@@Vayriee dont mock what you dont understand.
There are too other countries and cultures who talk of Fairies and Little People, maybe... just maybe there's an element of truth in these tales., every person from near and far who talk of these mysterious people cant 'all' be wrong......
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yep.
3 generations saw same one night years ago.
@Heloise O'Byrne 😂 ewww yuck! But fairies are much more magical than squishy wormy things, so I would rather believe they were fairy lanterns. 🌼🌿🎆🏮🎆🎐
Ireland is such a beautiful magical place, my grandma from Ireland would tell me endless stories and fairytales about fairy’s, that you should always believe. To this day I am 24 and still very much believe. Most people that I know don’t and probably think I’m weird for it, but my heart and my love for anything Irish will always be in my heart.
Please can you share a story?! I'm so interested to hear!
@@donerkebab778 it’s been so long since I have heard a story from my grandmother, I can’t think of any that I could tell you, she died 3rd April in the first lockdown unfortunately from frailty, thank god it wasn’t COVID 19, I think because I was so close with her, I might of blanked it, I remember my mum would say that her dad told her about the banshee, she told me and it spooked me so much I can’t remember what she said about it now, but I do remember my grandma would tell me about leprechauns about how at the bottom of the garden you could hear constant tapping, and if you ever catch one don’t ever turn away because if not there gone.
I'm 21 and believe in that stuff too, though I feel maybe ppl my age are less inclined to believe in this stuff anymore. But as an Irish person there are many stories in the family of fairies! It's great to keep those memories alive and pass them down to further generations. 💖
@@laoisemeehan couldn’t agree more, could I ask how you would say your name, I would say it as Leesha, only because someone I know is called Aoise (Eesha), it’s a name I’ve sort of never heard before until this person that I know.
@@siobhanboyle8786 you are correct, it's pronounced Leesha :) not many people get that right, usually they say Louise!😂
An American. My mom is 83 years old. She told me when she was in high school she and a friend were driving home at night. Mom was driving down a road that had corn fields on each side. It was foggy. She slowed down because she saw something coming out of the corn. She says it was aittle man with shoes that curled up. She says he walked into the middle of the road and stopped and stared at her with a disgusted look on his face, then turned his head and walked across the road to the other side and into the cornfield.
She says her friend and she just stared at each other in disbelief. They both acknowledged that they had seen the same thing.
Mom says they never spoke about it again.
I was little when she told me her experience. When I got a bit older and started to question that story, I asked her to tell me again. She did. She told me it was true.
Throughout the years, every once in a while, I asked her again.
I am 57 years old. The story has never varied and she has maintained that it happened.
My mom is a levelheaded factual thinker, and not one to make up atoriesor gossip.
I'm so lucky.
she was lucky 🍀 to see it ⭐️⭐️
IV never seen 1 but I HERD story's about people who have been trapped in fairy rings over night ontill it gets bright
@@yousall7259 those ppl trapped in them fairy rings...... did they have headaches the next day....
I hope u still have yr mother, if yes, plz record her voice or film her telling this story for the children of yr clan, maybe whisky her up if its possible first to add to the atmosphere n detail
@@homebrandrules I don't know, people would walk into a field in the night time and they wouldn't find ther way out ontill it gets bright, they could be walking all night and never find the entrance to the field
The lady saying the non believer's being more educated.. That may be true in academic terms but there are many levels of intelligence and knowledge and this lovely lady and all in the know really have the knowledge of what others don't understand or can begin to comprehend. 💚
Take care of the Earth. It really is simple.
Yes but it’s not the actions of one it’s the actions of many and the corporations are the one who’s really ruining everything I can recycle all I want I’m never gonna save the earth
Once my cousin inherited the land (in County Clare) he did just that..cut down the faery fort. Shortly thereafter, his wife almost went blind and on top of that, she suffered a miscarriage. Everyone talked of it and blamed it on the cutting down of the fort. I remember that lovely mystical fort well.
Iam from a tiny hillock village mongchen ,nagaland,India.there is a place in our village where a woman returning from the fields met a group of tiny people cooking in egg shells,on asking them what they were up to they told her they were stationed there for rest and were to reach a place called orangkong that night itself,orangkong is a real place far away from our village,so from facts we can conclude they travel faster than humans
So cool! I want to believe all these stories are real! I enjoy the possibility of them being true. I wouldn't say anyone was fibbing because I've had my own psychic experiences that make people roll their eyes. Just haven't seen any fairies, that I'm aware of anyway. :)
My Grandmother taught me how to be respectful of the faeries and always carry a heel of bread ❤ my favourite book about the faeries is by Raymond E. Feist called Faerie tale , it's one that's better read during the day and if you're a true believer , it will be better than a Stephen King book ❤
Something to root out!
Faerie Tale is great. You should also read Tamsin by Peter s. Beagle. Technically its a ghost story but incorporates many of the faeries in it.
When my Irish grandmother gave me a cookie or candy she would always give me an extra one to keep in my pocket in case I encountered a fairy. Since fairies can be mischivious, she said, offer it a cookie so they will leave you alone. I always got to eat the other cookie though. Lol
@Slavery is Freedom, War is Peace No, she never really believed they were real, it was just fun.
Awesome
@Slavery is Freedom, War is Peace really?
@Slavery is Freedom, War is Peace I certainly hope so... absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
aawwhhh how cute
I was born in USA but I remember the fairy stories from my Irish grandma passed on to her by her mother and so on. There was a great Irish culture in the 50's 60's in the USA. I remember dressing in green ( always a beautiful, new green dress sewn by my grandmother ) for St. Patrick's Day and singing traditional Irish songs at school. I don't think there is the same spirit or interest in the past as there use to be. We blame it on technology but it also a lack of curiosity for the past. For me it's fundamental to preserve!!
There is many a strange wonder left on this earth for us to discover.
Never dismiss the old ways out of folly.
My great grandmother was from a village called Mooncoin, right outside of Kilkenny. She never talked about anything like this but she was the only person I ever really felt special around and she understood me. I am in western Washington USA. I have believed in fairies since I can remember. I've had many unexplainable experiences. I believe magic is just inherent in some of us. In midlife now I am finally true to my strange self and loving my life. I can't help but think that there was a fairy or two in my ancestry. Blessings to you all. 🍀🌟🧝🏻♂️✨🧙🏻♂️🧭🌖🧚🏻♂️🧚🏻♀️🧚🏻🫅🏻🕯️💖
I am 50 yrs old, no mental health issues other than the state of the country drives me batty (FJB). I live in the Pacific Northwest, and one night while outside looking for UFOs with my nightvision, I saw these things flying high above the trees and they looked iridescent fluorescent pinkish...I recorded them for a long time because I knew they had to be fairies. This was two years ago, and for this entire time I have been completely obsessed. I have over a terabyte of video and have recorded 10 or 12 types. They literally come in my room almost daily and gather all the little pieces of my dog's little bones and they arrange them in little smiley faces, or little fairie shaped stick people. I leave them sweets, and I know they play with my 3lb dog a lot. One came in my living room and was there for just a couple seconds before she disappeared but I got a couple pics, as I already had my camera on taking pics of my dog. They stole a ring of mine and getting it back was an ordeal that took months. I am fascinated by them, and I work daily on the relationship between us because I just cant not. Its important to me. I love those little rascals.
I believe you I have video of them on my channel ❤🧚
It almost sounds like you are clinically insane.
Do you want to introduce us to your friends. It would be lovely to see the footage.
I think the Fae gifted me a bracelet with a silver circle ⭕️ and the circle appeared in something else. I had a light display too above my hedge ❤
The magnetic atmosphere or veil around the earth is thinner than it’s been in 12000 years of course you’re seeing them…
It's we who have changed. 😔 Sad, but so true. We have to come together and spread the love and energy around us.
Thaiz Betanzo
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you know, the darkness uses networks in person and online... since we are connecting right now, as you read this (if), I am in Oregon, and you are... ?? I now send love and light to any and all reading these words, through this media; as it should be, as it could be, and so it is!! peace, Thaiz, and obviously I am inspired by your expressed sentiments and believe it counts using what we have to do it. bless you
@@alaysiakayebutler6299 absolutely, love to all.
@@alaysiakayebutler6299 you can keep your false love and false light. You have no idea what you are doing.
It’s just folklore. Beautiful folklore.
I lived at the foot of a Faerie Mountain in New Zealand as a child. Everyone among the Maori recognized it as such.
My Dad was part Irish and worked for many years as a missionary to the Australian Aborigines, and he believed about the Patu-Pae-Erehei (Maori Faeries). We went up on the mountain for a walk one day when I was about four "to look for the faeries" and I saw a fresh faery footprint in the mud! We also saw logs in a little circle where the moss had been worn off, as though little bottoms had been sitting on them! There was no fire in the circle, as Maori faeries don't have fire, they are frightened of it and eat all their food raw.
There are stories of famous historical figures going up to the mountain and meeting with the faery folk, and tales of them kidnapping women and men for their spouses. Sometimes they would allow the woman to return (or she would escape), and if she was pregnant, she would bear a child with pale skin, blonde or red hair and blue or green eyes. This happened many times, prior to the arrival of the White Man, and when the White Man first arrived in that area, they noticed these red headed and blonde headed, green and blue eyed people.
Many of these people live in that area to this day, and many have never married into the White Man. When they are DNA tested, they show no European ancestry, but a shared ancestry with the Chachapoya Cloud People of the South American Andes. The Chachapoya were reputed to be a Magickal Race as well descended from Spirits or gods, so you never know...
Although ignored by the authorities and told they don`t exist, their descendants say they are originally from what is now Iran ; then on to India ; and that they stopped for a time in Peru ( which would explain the Chachapoya connection) before continuing on to New Zealand. I believe this was well over 3,000 years ago. I don´t understand why anthropologists and historians aren´t falling over themselves to study these amazing people.
Which mountain?
So, anything not human is a demon? I know sasquatches are real, but Jesus never existed. Made up by a Roman emperor. Demons my ass. You're a demon.
@@shawnmccormick7778 i understand, but don't fall for their rhetoric.
@@shawnmccormick7778 so you have to put down all believers of Jesus just because one said it was demons? C’mon people. I believe in Jesus, as do many of these Irish speaking also of fairies. We know a lot as humans but we probably don’t even know the half of it! You don’t have to make things so black and white...that goes for both of you! (J Joseph AND Shawn McCormick)
I am an American, as are my 8 siblings. Our grandparents were all born in the West of Ireland, so we are pretty removed from it. Still, while none of us exactly believes in the fairies, no one would be foolish enough to talk smack about them! 'Cause you never know.
My dad was a County Durham man. He truely belived in various fairies & the Knockers in the pits. Mums side was Irish so leant alot of folk lore.
Are the Irish really willing to give up their folk traditions and beliefs to fit in with this ugly modern world? I sincerely hope not.
Nope only a few years ago in Ireland a whole motorway was diverted because they were going to have to dig up a fairy Fort. We got ridiculed in the news from the USA and UK but we don't care. In Ireland we know and respect the little people
@@eire3261 That's beautiful. Love and regards to you and the little people.
@@inkyheaven Thanks and God bless you and your family 💚🇮🇪🍀🙏♥️
@@eire3261 too much has been taken, when does it end. Do we really need all of it! There’s nothing wrong with the old ways, people have become ignorant and lazy. I’m so pleased you all won this fight.
@@eire3261 Don't mess with it. Damn right, there's too many stories of people dying as a result of moving fairy rings from land.
My second great grandfather came to the USA as a wee lad and was still alive albeit very very old , near 102 when I can remember him. I loved the way he talked and he always did tell me that faerie folk werent silly little tinkerbells. He told me they could be very mischievious especially if you killed a cricket. To this day way over the pond in the USA this woman
Shanna Van Ausdall I could not have said it better 💔
Why don't you just come home?
Shanna Van Ausdall Yes I too miss my folk whom used to Believe and taught me so very much about being Irish, and yet American. Health to you
Shanna Van Ausdell If you love Ireland so much, go and live there.
I dislike cricket noise but I love them they cute. Must be fairly alarm bells.
My husband and I believe in faries,we once saw an elf on a walk in the frost and ice one bitter winters morning in North Yorkshire 🍄🍄
Thank you for this. Something charming in a miserable world ❤
Such a pleasure to hear these lovely Irish voices, taking their time, speaking of a day and age where life was lived at a slower pace. We had time to notice the fairies in the old days.
In the Himalayan foothills we believe in them too though we call them by different names...but yes they exist.. Just as we do. Little people in the forests and woodlands.
I believe they will still be around long after we are all gone.
In 2009 the veil lifted for me for a year, I experienced the joy of heaven on earth, I felt so much connection to everything , one day I felt the energy of a fairy, when I asked her her name I heard Isadora 😍
This sent chills down me, in a good way, I saw them. In the fort on our family farm when I was a child. I used to play in there. When it started getting dark I felt.... like I'd over stayed my welcome. Then I got a feeling that I was too old to be there when I was a teenager.
Once I was bushwacking on the west coast of Canada and stopped for a while in a pretty little moss covered sunlit glade. But very soon I began to feel I was being watched from somewhere behind me. I tried to dismiss this feeling as just my imagination, but it grew stronger and I started to feel that whatever was watching me was annoyed and wanted me gone. I looked back but saw nothing. I turned around again and immediately there came a sharp whistle from no more than a few yards behind me. I looked back and again saw nothing. But the feeling of hostility had increased, so I left.
A couple of weeks later, I discussed this experience with an indigenous shaman. He told me a story of his people that involved a little green man emerging from a fallen hollow tree, whistling just like I'd heard, and then vanishing. I asked him if he thought that was what I had encountered. "Could be", he replied.
I grew up with a grandmom from the North of Portugal. In the province of Tras-os-Montes people kept the old ways. That is a celtic place from the time the Celtas mixed with the Iberos. The dialect and language is very influenced by Celtic culture and lore. Things like never throw warm water on the garden not to hurt the Little People, planting an herb garden with enough herbs and medicinal herbs to share with them. Don’t destroy 🍄 you find on the field for the fairies eat them, so many small things so different from the other Portuguese provinces. The music with bagpipes, the the food like by example, colkannon, just eaten there. The dialect is full of celtic words and the traditions are the same, and the red hair is prevalent among us. The other side of the frontier, in Galicia, is closer to us than the others (portuguese). Yes, fairies exist. They are a fact! Is modern people that lost the contact with them and the wisdom of their protection. I wish I had them here in my new land of America... then I would not be so alone...
I've seen them in Colorado. Don't despair---they are everywhere! There is a place in Virginia called Perelandra, where fairies instruct the leader how to plant her garden. Look it up. Go visit.
@@robertaswanson5633 what did they look like?
Thank you for sharing your story. I just love reading all the comments, for I learn so many new things. It’s amazing how cultures can intertwine. It sounds like a beautiful place indeed. ✨❤️✨
You have a new community online. And you have Jesus too, if you just call out to Him!
@@robertaswanson5633
There was a place like that in Schotland too, much heard about it in the ´70 and ´80...
“If you can’t believe believe in faeries… you can’t believe in god”
YESSSS words of wisdom
I’m from the US and was traveling in Ireland just as sunset disappears and you are in the gloaming, the time when day gives in to night -if you’re in the countryside you can feel them.
I believe in the Fair Folk and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.
I'm 4-5th generation Canadian from my Dad's side, my O'Neill ancestor came from Ireland; and from my Mom's side my Great Grandmother Clayton was 1st-2nd Irish-American, she strongly believed in fairies, my Grandma used to say. But I grew up stripped and devoid from anything related to my heritage. Nowadays, I'm reconnecting to my roots by delving into and following Gaelic Traditionalism, and by learning Gaeilge. This is a great resource for us Diaspora Gael descendants, as it is maybe our only way to connect to our tradition bearers. One day I will be able to go to the land of my ancestors. Thank you so much for this.
Supposedly we have Murphy somewhere on my dad's side. I would love to see Ireland!
Thank you! God’s blessings,love, light and joy to everyone.
Have faith ,some of us Irish, don’t change, even in my generation. (Baby boomer) the tales are to be respected. Don’t fuss with the little people. You can’t see em, so ya think they don’t exist?can ya see the air you’re breathing?
Never go in a fairy Fort cause you might never be able to leave it that's what my grandmother used to say God rest her
Where is the fairy fort
‘Know..people talk about the “411” (countless number of people who disappear in the woods mysteriously) and there’s speculation it’s Sasquatch..but it might just be the little people.
@@kangarootea They are all over Ireland.
@Joe Alexander I believe there's that famous forest at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Japan that has that same reputation. They call it the "Suicide Forest" or something like that.
@@sonofhibbs4425 My father believes in Sasquatch.
I recall Eddie caused a bit of rí rá when he raised an objection about a new motorway being built not far from me around 1999, as it would lead to the destruction of a fairy tree. Of course, the council got on the case, and the whitethorn was saved. Gas man.
Nice video too, well done!
that is fabulous, and speaks volumes!! those values...priceless. it wouldn't go down that way here in the u.s....unfortunately.. but on my property, they have their own ''community'' area under and through a patch of trees w/ hollow like root systems and thick underbrush... idk, but it looks like fae folk condos, lolol. my grown kids think I'm kidding, or like to kid me about fairies.... i know tinkerbell was a silly representative, and they have a great way of blending in with their environment.. I've ran across a little tableau, that looked like a work station or setting for some activity; like a set table, with bench seats...made of flat stone, half nut shells and tiny buds in shells, halves of sticks that look like benches set along two sides of stone... found under that canopied tree area i mentioned. just strolling thru my wooded property (riverfront, wooded behind) happened to just look down, and saw that.. and took pics, left it all alone.. paid my respects and left. I accept whether it is or isn't what I think, lol.
I think I saw a tv news report about this, it totally skunnred me. Evil act that.
Rí rá, love that.
could you PLEASE share your photos??? @@alaysiakayebutler6299
@@mfrmll3786 where to? I found the tableaux.. If that's what it may be.. I have a file somewhere of a winged, antennae torso of deceased creature with its hands and feet and head gone..probably to obscure identification..maybe birds did the removal of extremities...the shape of the torso/body.. Is what grabbed me,.. And it had huge curled wings, long curly antennas..had turned yellowish all over.. I hope to uncover those pics.. Where should I post them?? somewhere
All of these stories of fairies and other creatures of folklore need to be collected and preserved. All to often in history, beliefs , myths and legends have been lost. The big ones often remain, but the little local ones tend to get lost and this is a crying same. Whether they're true or not they demonstrate the imagination of people and the foundation of their cultures. Sadly, alot of the people who know the stories are nearing the end of their days, so time is of the essence. So, if you know someone who knows these stories, sit with them, write the stories down and put them somewhere on the web .
Eddie! I loved him! I met him once when I was on a study abroad in Ireland. He is magical like the land
My late father (RIP)❤ was a farmer's son from the Banner- the people respected the fairies and their place in the community.
Some people sense and see these things others can't, as the man said. These lovely little things, these earth energies or whatever you care to call them leave a lovely scent wherever they have been.
I know several people, from all time of backgrounds who have seen fairies (and not like "oh I think I saw something", but clear as day seeing it in front of them ) and one person who saw gnomes (from the description, at least, i would say that's what it was). All of them from France. Very sane minded and grounded kind of people. Some of them were really surprised/shocked. People will become closer to nature again someday, and they will learn to feel, to hear and to see again .
Interesting! Thanks
This is a beautiful video which reminds us of the wonders of this world that us modern folk, entranced with politics, hedonism and technology have all but forgotten.
Thanks for watching, glad you like it. I'm releasing some more videos on the channel soon too.
I love their accents. Beautiful for telling stories.💚
"It's we who have changed" That hit me hard because it is true. We no longer see nature as an equal or a friend, but something to profit off of or treat poorly.
The Fae are still here and will always be here, waiting for us to either change our ways or destroy ourselves in our own foolishness. I believe in Fae and respect them as I would an old friend. Believe in them, even if you cannot see them.
I haven't changed, no matter what people think of me......... the tiniest insect that finds it's way into the house goes back outside, alive and well and handled
gently :-) The bird bath has clean water, the bird feeder is full, the spider's webs stay where they are, etc. Honor ALL life :-) I sit on the porch and send out waves of love to the trees, the flowers, the grass, etc. and I thank them for making this planet beautiful! I hope one day the fairies feel safe enough to allow humans to see them, I know we'd learn a lot from them.
Indeed. There is no difference from believing in Fairies than believing in Angels! If we can’t believe in one supernatural existence, how can we find comfort in any other.
actually its the spliced in abominations that dissected us, drugs us, kidnapped us, bred in , dumbed down, harassed, and dissected and PRETENDED freewill
and harassed and mocked those of life into the harassment over shadowing being until those things of us we ourselves would destroy
in truth if I were the tree of life I'd send the world to hell even the real fruit of the tree of life and be the ONLY one allowed to be dead and uncreated
people seem to think that any creature in this world should be exempt, they know nothing of spirit them, that a single fruit of the tree of life got mocked or parasited off means it happens to ALL
and I'm not talking about evil jesus/ satan whoa re one and usurped dominion of self and pitted spirit against itself by its/ his/. abominable self existing
alas I cant explain, but it will be all cast back, along side his father thoth who spliced them into existence
its done and damage to spirit doesn't get undone
and he did speak truth in one thing though in his not real double tongue but destructive to live hypocritical double tongue way
THERE IS NO FORGIVENESS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF SPIIRT
they don't seem to get those of life who have been destroyed are within their rights to curse the rest of the world for it, and do
the bs concept of forgiveness if has to be told form an outside source is NOT within the realm of life therefore a rape and dissection further of spirit and turns wholesome animals into sheep
and that is the WORST agony of ALL
but no amount of agony is sufficient, for once you cut deep enough of the spirit of life, there is no level of agony and retribution that can be just, they will all just wallow in that which they have caused
I noticed the freemasonic, catholic, black and white tiles behind her over btw
I used to have my own inner eye, now all I see is that crap like going down a a whole and when I was dissected into a religious fanatical stage found it evil
alas the damage they had to do, well this women and her ancestors descendants and brothers and sisters will FEEL it forever, as its done
creator, vs splicing ion abomination
24000 years is a day
the hour of destruction of 2000 years when evil jesus can what his openly taking his seat and pretending another whilst telling you who he was
everything is done
its already been done
this is the year of the ox, I hope they kill the heifer (life) soon
this world was a never ending dissection of agonizing hell
@@laural3267 I highly recommend you try to find a therapist, I'm not joking, you seem like you need someone to talk to. Hope you find one, peace.
@@barbaracurtis7272 I admit, I like the way you think! But also, remember the God who made that beauty for you to enjoy. Peace to you too!
I'm an American, with Irish heritage, from an Irish family that settled over here in the States 150 years back. My whole life I was superstitious. More so than my peers, I guess. Love seeing these videos of Irish people across the pond, and I feel like we are related though we've never met.
I have not yet seen a fairy but I think I was close to it.
I was working in the garden last summer and saw something like sun reflecting on water in between ivy leaves on the edge of the garden. It was a dull, overcast day so it definitely wasn't the sun plus this part of the garden is shady from around noon - it was much later than that. I was watching the light for a while out of the corner of my eye and then said hello. The light disappeared as soon as I said it and didn't come back. I do hear music when I'm there as well, like a fiddle. It's very faint so can't say which direction it's coming from. The property is in the middle of nowhere so it's definitely not coming from the neighbours.
I also heard the banshee in the fields behind my house few years back. Still gives me goosebumps when I think of it. My partner at the time said it was probably a fox but I don't think so. I heard many foxes throughout my life and while the sound is eerie it's nothing comparing to what I've heard that night.
My best friend saw a fairy in his garden on few occasions, tiny little thing darting around the place like a hummingbird. Always disappears when it sees him. I caught a glimpse of something shiny once, when I was visiting him but that's it.
Can't wait to visit my ancestral land of Scotland /Ireland some day. And maybe I'll even be lucky enough to see a fairy!
“But sure there’s none of that now. Thats all gone” UGH broke my heart
It is easy to dismiss something you have never seen or experienced
That is human nature
We find it hard to comprehend something that we dont not understand
Specially cultures who are not spiritually active
@@tama-a-tumatauengahiku3647 yes, spiritually dead culture IS illness upon humankind existance. Of course, they’d say the opposite. But these are the same people who think highly of themselves when they explain even love away as “chemicals”. They are alive, but all DEAD.
I grew up on stories from Eddie Lenihan at talks and he used to come to our house with them.
We spent time with my grandparents generation and they all shared these stories and traditions.
I have been writing for the last few years to preserve them for my children and their generation. It is almost entirely wiped from the thoughts of people in ireland today.
Hopefully Balor O'brien will be able to revive some interest in it.
I was born 400 metres from a Fairy Circle here in Hamilton Scotland.
Where is the fairy circle in Hamilton?
My grandmother told us once she got a warning from fairies to but back the wood that her son cut down from a ringfort for fire wood they said that they would poke the eyes out with a needle if they didn't return it.
I love this, Ireland is a magical place. I believe in fairies. 💖
My great grandfather, James Edward Hanley, was born in County Clare in 1850. My dad talked about his grandfather telling stories about the wee folk. Thank you for this video.
My Nanny used to tell us about the fairies when I was little. I guess I still believe in them. I've seen Eddie Lenihan in other films about the fairies, and he's very wise. Thank you for sharing this video!! ~Janet in Canada
Just amazing !
The good people are real.
Was always told about them by my grandmother and Aunts growing up.
And when I seen them it was totally different.
Will always love the Good people and respect them
My Nan/grandma has always told me they were real, when I was about 7-8 me and my cousin would play by her cabinet filled with faery statues and say over and over “we do believe in faeries, we do, we do” ofcourse my cousin stoked it from Peter Pan but I could see the faeries slowly come out. She never did but my grandma swore that they were real. I forgot about it until now that I realise that they are real
My mom always told us that if we churned the butter backwards, the fairies would fall in.
This brought me to tears. So tragic that modern society has lost grasp of the natural order & truth of the land.
Eddie Lenihan's a very wise man, his knowledge of these things is legend itself.
We have an inner need to belong and to embrace our folk traditions that seems so in tune with nature because nature has a balance that wild life understands and we must respect. There is nothing better out there. There will come the day you will never forget it.
This is a gem ❤
I was told they exist and shown where they live - by people who were not silly. It's a fascinating subject due respect. Thanks for making this video with interviews.
You're welcome, glad you like them. I'm going to be uploading more videos very soon so be sure to subscribe. :)
Ed and Lorraine Warren’s interview about Irish faeries was also intriguing.
Since around 1964 I have considered religious people deluded. It interests me that this is about something outside of (the mostly catholic branch of christianity) Irish public religiosity.
It is now around 1500 years since the stranglehold of christianity tightened around the throat of old Éire, so I am amazed at the persistence of these stories.
You mean the stranglehold it had on the devils with evil intentions. The world is slowly falling apart now that the devils are feeling more free. Just because Jesus' mission was true does not mean other things are not. 🤷
@@leejennifercorlewayres9193 Saying something is true does not make it so, nor does it have any bearing on the truth of other concepts.
Whether claimed to be beneficial or detrimental in nature, supernatural beings have no existence, and it is still folly to believe in either. Prayers and curses are useless. I fear neither devils nor gods.
And from the coldness of men's hearts, the Fea folk went away. :(
My experience is that through yoga and detoxification, the world of the fairies has become increasingly apparent. Humans are meant to be walking shamen, hand in hand with the fairies, the planet and fully conscious of their multidimensional nature. Anything less and we can define ourselves as half wits.
how do you detox
We must give up the self-serving idea of human exceptionalism. We are all brothers and sisters in our Earth Mother's creation within Her living biome of life.. And we have to stop super-imposing our exclusively human ideologies over the surface of our Mother Earth, 'communism'. 'capitalism'.socialism. etc., etc.. These abstractions distance us from the truth of where we REALLY are - on our Blessed Mother Earth, immersed within the Divine Love energy being of our Great Cosmic Mother always and everywhere. When I was around 5, I would often see a fairie on a little grassy knoll on my way to school and we would talk through mental telepathy. Being a small child, I thought there was nothing strange about it at all. I still remember him. I'm 72 now. We are all here together, Always. Planetize - don't globalize.
@@sunnyboy4553 your comment just helped me so much. I'm 17, my whole life I've been fascinated with fairies but told they're just a made up creature like the rest, but something about the fairies felt different, like its truth wouldn't conform to being a fairytale creature. I really hope to detox and get away from where I'm living, the social constructs and beliefs are ruining me mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
@@narfinarf5920 keep believing, God's ways are not our ways, His ways are higher than our ways, His thoughts higher than our thoughts... You keep your eyes on the wonderment of Love, and you will be amazed at the things you can see. Hug,
😉
@Padjoe O ceal yeah satan loves it when you improve your strength, balance and flexibility. It's satan's work when you get back pain relief, ease arthritis symptoms, benefit your heart health and get more energy and brighter moods. God doesn't want you to to have these scientifically validated benefits www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/9-benefits-of-yoga because SCieNcE iS SAtan and YOga Is PAgaN or somesuch retarded reasoning.
This was fascinating - thanks so much for posting. Major respect to Eddie Lenihan and all those involved in the video 🎉
I surely believe in fairies, ever since I was a young girl to remember.
I believe in Fairies..got to respect them💚and their home.
This is the most comfy documentary ever.
RIP Benny Harvey. Miss ya
Someone has already said that they have seen them in Colorado and there is suppose to be a famous mound in Wisconsin.
We give blessings of the Fair Folk, I give blessings if the Faeries.
It is, indeed, we who have changed. It is our loss. The hope is rediscovery but, that takes time.
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My cousin built a house on a fairy rath. He never spent a night there. He was terrified, knocked it down.
What happened that scared him?
I was on a camping trip with my school on the Island of Eigg in 1974 and I fell down a massive hill and when I got back on my feet I saw a little person in a black hat looking at me and in a flash it was gone.
I'm so glad I found this channel. Keep up the hard work, keeping our culture alive and well.
Thank you. Thank you so much. This is better than any book I’ve read. My research into people missing from national parks has brought me to fairy lore ❤️
I am so happy to find someone else wondering enough to look into it. I firmly believe that the majority of these natl park issues are from something not human. I investigate those type things.
@@HOLLYHOUSE11 I don’t know about them being “non human”, however my mind is open. If you’re interested, look into the Nazis building UFOs towards the end of the war & escaping to Antarctica. Robert Sepehr has great videos on here about subterranean civilizations as well. It’s my belief this is all connected.
My advice to fairies would be to be very suspicious of humans. Humans are often unpredictable, violent, ignorant and destructive. So a really scary story would be a meeting with, a one to common, ignorant human being. But now a large part of humanity begins to wake up to true spirituality and we can again begin to cooperate with beings, in other dimensions.
Marcus W They are cautious.
And wisely so
Fairies enjoy stealing human babies.
In Ireland most monsters are considered fairies
That is good advice to the faerie folk and I am sure they all have been told bad bad stories of human kind.
I don't think they require any advice from you, or any other human. No offence intended, but I'd say they know more about us than we do.
Hi 💚I believe fairy’s too!
Yes. Yes we have changed. It's a feeling on edge. Something is coming that is bad. People seem to be less kind these days. Well,,,, God bless you anyway.
Lol ok
They forgot God in their darkened minds.... But he never forgets us
the new world order has been succeeding in destroying the cultures of the world and the earth as well. so it is getting pretty dark for us as pure spirits trying to hold the truths and stories of our ancestors.
the new world order agenda is trying to eradicate that from our natural human behavior as earth humans protectors of the the earth.
There was a fairy fort in my gram’s backyard she always let alone, it even took over a old storage shed and was quite beautiful. Sadly after she passed, we sold the home- it just needed too much work for us to keep at the time.
Anyway, a young very happy couple moved in and tore down the fort almost the same da, it felt like- they ended up splitting up about three months later and she was 7 months pregnant...
🤷🏼♀️ we warned them.
I'm pure Hibernian, and pictish. Grew up with out the stories or the language.The descendant of the molly mcquires.But the heart of the land has always been a part of me, keep this knowledge alive,it is what keep us human!!!
I'm Irish and I've met a few faeries in my time .ha ha.
I live in America and I have fae living in my home... My children and their friends as well as my friends who truly believe, have seen them.
Interesting! So have you seen them too? Can you tell me what they looked like?
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Moira
From England.
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In my homeland of Papua New Guinea, we have very similar stories of creatures who live in old trees. Once one of these trees were cut down and they found a "home" inside.
I believe in fairies. Never seen one. I believe in Dragons. I connect with them in meditation.
Yes all cultures of the ancient world spoke of dragons, so surly there must be some truth there. Perhaps the dimensions were thinner back then, or man just had more of a open mind and heart.
Eddie Lenihan used to come to Ennis library when I was small and tell us all the stories about the fairies. Thank gosh for UA-cam or I would have forgotten all about him ❤️ also my little one has been to bunratty and many places in Clare and been in awe of the fairy forests. She's even seen a few fairies but hasn't seen any yet in Scotland.
"its we who have changed" Yep! 2 choices as I see it Love or Fear
I saw a fairy 🧚♀️ for real as well yes look like tinker bell no joke
there be before the time of man a place where the wee folk did live so rest assured we of faith are missing there presence this day. i'd call em back were I still of that mind. faith be wid you.
The perfect environment for fairies - or pixies who dive and jump and around the midst stones and return to their tiny caves! So real..! 🧚♀️🧚♂️👍
I cried what a wonder that exist
👍To My Ancestry Homeland , specifically Tipperary County 👍🍻🍻