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She is depicted as a beautiful woman of the Aos Sí ("people of the fairy mounds") who takes a human lover. Lovers of the leannán sídhe are said to live brief, though highly inspired, lives. The name comes from the Gaelic words for a sweetheart, lover, or concubine and the term for inhabitants of fairy mounds (fairy). [3]
A fairy ring (possibly Chlorophyllum molybdites) on a suburban lawn in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. A fairy ring, also known as fairy circle, elf circle, elf ring [1] or pixie ring, is a naturally occurring ring or arc of mushrooms. [2] They are found mainly in forested areas, but also appear in grasslands [3] or rangelands.
Glaistig Uaine is a supervillain in the serial webfiction Worm by Wildbow, who has the power to claim the souls of other superhumans and take their powers for herself. A glaistig named Troya is in Fish Out of Water by Hailey Edwards. Glaistigs appear in Melissa Marr's young adult series, Wicked Lovely.
Aos sí are seen as fierce guardians of their abodes—whether a fairy hill, a fairy ring, a special tree (often a hawthorn) or a particular loch or wood. It is believed that infringing on these spaces will cause the aos sí to retaliate in an effort to remove the people or objects that invaded their homes.
On the Isle of Harris a Cu Sith (fairy dog) is said to leave oversized pawprints on the sand that disappear halfway across the beach. [1] It is alleged that this is a fairy hound . In South Uist , a woman walking with two friends in the pitch dark watched as a self-illuminating dog, the size of a collie but with a small head and no eyes, ran ...
The 'Land of the Ever Young' depicted by Arthur Rackham in Irish Fairy Tales (1920). In Celtic mythology , the Otherworld is the realm of the deities and possibly also the dead. In Gaelic and Brittonic myth it is usually a supernatural realm of everlasting youth, beauty, health, abundance and joy. [ 1 ]
In Manx folklore, [1] the mooinjer veggey are small creatures ranging 2–3 ft (0.61–0.91 m) in height, otherwise very like mortals. They wear red caps and green jackets and are most often seen on horseback followed by packs of little hounds of all the colours of the rainbow.
Haltadans, also known as Fairy Ring or Haltadans stone circle, is a stone circle on the island of Fetlar in Shetland, Scotland. [1] This site is a ring of 38 stones, [ 2 ] of which 22 are still fixed in the soil, and it is 11 metres (37 ft) in diameter. [ 3 ]