Yesterday afternoon (April 7) I walked down the hill on our land to where we wish to build a small A-Frame. As I stood where the back window would be I noticed in a direct line of sight and in direct line with the angle of the marking stones for the A-Frame was a large rock pile, which would be called a "ráth" in Ireland. I knew of this rock pile but had never realized it was lined up so clearly with our A-Frame layout....
I immediately sensed something about so I walked toward the faerie hill. I then began to hear them in my mind. They said that one of my neighbors had "stolen" their stones to build an herb garden and I had stolen stones to build part of my house! they said I should reconcile this and rebuild their place by returning the large stones from the herb garden. They said I did not have to dismantle my wall as it is part of my house, but I should return that stone by weight. So I proceeded to do this. Some of the large stones must have weighed 100 lbs or more.
Here is a crude drawing I did with a 'before" at the top and the 'after" at the bottom. Wish I had a digital camera to take real pics but I do not.
I believe these places are inhabited by the "little people" whom are different from Elves . The beings here are the Sidhe, the Aos si: the people of the faerie mounds who live underground. Legend sometimes tells us these are the remnants of the powerful Tuatha d Dannan, the Irish faerie race - but I personally believe the TDD are related to the Elves, and that the little faeries are of a different race of beings.
The stone mound on my land is quite old and it is unknown whether it was man made or a natural mound. It may have been a farmer 100 years ago who moved the stones there. I know they were not put there by bulldozers making the roads in our community in the 1980s. The trees around the mound are too large. All I know is some faerie folk decided to live there and yesterday they revealed themselves.
Iast night after dark I put on "Darby O'Gill and the Little People", an old Walt Disney movey about faerie hills and leprechauns in particular. It has some cool Irish music so I played this loud, took a lantern and walked down to my own faerie hill, small as it may be compared to the ones in Ireland. I could hear the Irish music from our house about 300' up the hill. This made it a very magical experience. I even named our faerie hill "Knocknasheega" after the large faerie mountain in the movie.
This is so cool, we have a faerie hill on our land!
(Oh, I looked up "Faerie Hill" in a Gaelic dictionary and as best I can tell it would be named "Cnoc shioga" which is actually pronounced "Nocksheega" - very much what it is called in the old Disney movie.)
I immediately sensed something about so I walked toward the faerie hill. I then began to hear them in my mind. They said that one of my neighbors had "stolen" their stones to build an herb garden and I had stolen stones to build part of my house! they said I should reconcile this and rebuild their place by returning the large stones from the herb garden. They said I did not have to dismantle my wall as it is part of my house, but I should return that stone by weight. So I proceeded to do this. Some of the large stones must have weighed 100 lbs or more.
Here is a crude drawing I did with a 'before" at the top and the 'after" at the bottom. Wish I had a digital camera to take real pics but I do not.
I believe these places are inhabited by the "little people" whom are different from Elves . The beings here are the Sidhe, the Aos si: the people of the faerie mounds who live underground. Legend sometimes tells us these are the remnants of the powerful Tuatha d Dannan, the Irish faerie race - but I personally believe the TDD are related to the Elves, and that the little faeries are of a different race of beings.
The stone mound on my land is quite old and it is unknown whether it was man made or a natural mound. It may have been a farmer 100 years ago who moved the stones there. I know they were not put there by bulldozers making the roads in our community in the 1980s. The trees around the mound are too large. All I know is some faerie folk decided to live there and yesterday they revealed themselves.
Iast night after dark I put on "Darby O'Gill and the Little People", an old Walt Disney movey about faerie hills and leprechauns in particular. It has some cool Irish music so I played this loud, took a lantern and walked down to my own faerie hill, small as it may be compared to the ones in Ireland. I could hear the Irish music from our house about 300' up the hill. This made it a very magical experience. I even named our faerie hill "Knocknasheega" after the large faerie mountain in the movie.
This is so cool, we have a faerie hill on our land!
(Oh, I looked up "Faerie Hill" in a Gaelic dictionary and as best I can tell it would be named "Cnoc shioga" which is actually pronounced "Nocksheega" - very much what it is called in the old Disney movie.)
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