ok end of the week and still in Scotland (wish) as well as the Fairies and Elves quotes from the Lore book….promise last days at least for the fairies.

“Yet, like everything to do with Faerie, the passage of time there was capricious.  Mortals who entered the fairies’ world did not necessarily stay for centuries…captives who were released or rescued from fairy thrall after a year or two of mortal time.”

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But first your Outlander Droughtlander Life Support:

WORK on getting a front row seat to an event featuring Sam and hope he’s wearing his kilt like a “True Scott.”

or while we’re on the subject of letting it all hang out how about checking out this Outlander co-star–this one’s an actress:  http://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/699273/Nell-Hudson-flashes-MAJOR-side-boob-as-she-sizzles-in-daringly-skintight-frock

Re-watch Faith all by it’s self for a reminder of just how good Cait is.

‘Outlander’s’ Caitriona Balfe ‘tears you to pieces’ in ‘Faith’

An apology for all the near nudity—NOT—come on guys if you’re skin shy you probably have the wrong blog.

and finally (it is the weekend so a whole two days w/o any of my comfort).  Here’s some problems with the TV show vs. book both from Dianna’s point of view and fans (SPOILER)—I especially felt they were too revealing on Laoghaire involvement, considering her upcoming relationship to Jamie…other fans agreed….check it out and think up your responses:  http://zap2it.com/2016/05/outlander-foxs-lair-diana-gabaldon-jumping-the-shark-ep-laoghaire-claire/

“It is inadvisable, for instance, to step within a circle formed on the ground by mushrooms or one formed by bent stalks of grass.”

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I thought I’d finish out my week on fairies with some sites that have a history (or at least legend with fairy connections).

“It was also unwise to nap on any grassy knoll, for if by chance the hill covered a fairy dwelling, the fairies might swam out and carry the sleeper to their underground domain.”

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FRENSHAM, Surrey, UK

National Trust

In this area are four pre-historic bowl barrows between two poands (Great & Little) .  Area includes a nature reserve (near Little Pond) as well as three Strange hills with the largest being called The Devils Jump with a footpath to the summit.  The name comes from the belief that much of what is here was placed so Lucifer himself.

But the real entrance for this blog is St. Mary’s Church also in this area and home of a hug copper cauldron which is called Mother Ludlam’s (after a local witch), but as is the case of many such things in England—the item outdates the local witch and in earlier days was said to belong to the fairies.

“…those mortals who placed themselves at odds with their own society by quarreling or plotting evil deeds were more likely to be snatched into the fairy realm.”

Dunvegan Castle, Skye, Scotland

Ancestral Home of the Macleods (13th c)

Of interest here is the Fairy Flag of Dunvegan

This mere fragment of a silk banner is said to have been given to the 4th  chief (Iain) by his fairy wife on parting–other tales say it was given by Benshi the Fae Queen to the family to bring them success…and they could wave it on each, but the third time it was used it would disappear.

It’s was carried by the clan at the Battle of Glendale in 1490 and at Trumpan in 1580 both were victories for the family.  Photos of the flag were carried during WWII by members of the family on active service (RAF).

“The sun never shone in that place, she said, but the halls gleamed with their own radiance, and the music that drifted through them vanquished every mortal care.”

LLYN-Y-FAN FACH

Dyfed, Wales

Accessible through the hamlet of Llanddeusant, south of Llandovery

Reached by a stony path from the end of the tarmac road.

This lake is said to have had a beautiful fairy raise from its depths she ended marrying a local farmer and teaching their family magical remedies of all sorts of ailments which gave birth to

Physicians of Myddfai

who were real not legend and were famous throughout Wales for their cures in medieval times.

The lake’s dark waters are set below a step curing enscarpment which leads to Carmarthen Van, a 262′ summit of Black Mountain.

“…they whispered of fairy enchantments and of the ranks of mortals who were victims of fairy love.  They spoke with far, as mortals often did when they talked of the powers of Faerie.”

DOUGLAS

ISLE OF MAN

Douglas on the Isle of Man has many interesting sites and places: The Tower of Refuge built on a tiny island in the middle of the bay, for use of sailors wrecked on the treacherous St. Mary’s Rock.  Harold Tower on Douglas Head haunted by the ghost of a young servant girl.  The Nunnery Mansion, site of a nunnery founded by St. Bridget (don’t get me started on that one as most authorities agree she didn’t exist but rather was the Irish goddess Bridget) which still contains a portion of the chapel and an ancient well.  Kirby Park, the former home of Colonel Mark Wilks governor of St. Helena while Napoleon was imprisioned there and the grave of Samuel Ally a black slave of Wilks.  Also the Old Kirk Braddan  which is said to be very picturesque. And we can’t forget the nearby village where Captain Bligh (yeah that one) was married in 1781.

But for us

Saddle Road is our destination:

Here protruding from a wall is a large and oddly-saddle shaped stone from which the road gets its name.

Legend says that the stone was once a saddle used by a fairy to ride the Vicar of Braddan’s horses (why I don’t know) all night long, only returning them at daybreak along with the saddle which turned into the present stone formation at that time as well.

“His heart was given to a fairy woman whom he had met in a woodland, at a time when he was out of favor with the court because of his poverty.”

THERE are other sites:

Woolpit Village Suffolk

where in the 13th century some farm workers discovered a strange pair of children, neither could speak a language anyone understood, who wore strange clothing and most importantly were green.  Could they have been fairy—the accounts appear in the chronicles of William of Newburgh and another cleric Abbot of Coggeshall II.

Or what about the strange malicious woman in black who is often seen in

Befordshire

along a road which is a minor track off the road between Ravensden and Wilden who reputedly is seen from time to time and then just disappears and is notorious for her bad temper.

and are mermaids of Fairie too?

Zennor

Parish Church near Penzance

Cornwall

has a mermaid carved into a chair here and there is a legend of how one of these tempting woman/fish lured a local boy into the sea where he lived with her in evidently contentment.

“So once more, an alien pairing failed to hold .  Once more, a marriage between fairy and human ended in tragedy.  It would not be the last time.  As long as fairies showed themselves in human form, their love was avidly sought.  And no wonder .  Mortals bound by rules and best by mundane woes, saw the hope of immortal happiness, in those bright beings, shining with gallantry and grace, and swathed in mystery.”

and so my dears that’s a few fairy sites that might spark you interest…but there are sites all over the world as these creatures are not limited to Viking, Anglo Saxon and of course the Celts’ tradition, but have found themselves out and about and thus recorded everywhere.

See you next week have a fun weekend—and please DO Something interesting.

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“These rewards seemed worth the risk.  Even at the end of their time, when fairies no longer sought human company, glimpses of them added enchantment to the mortal’s measured earth, spinning its stately way through the eternal heavens.”

“Tryamour was never seen again.  It is said that she had taken her lover far across the se to live on the fairy island of Avalon, from which she never could return.  But Lanunfal reappeared in the forests near Caerleon (Camelot) once each year on the eve of the day that he left.  A shadowy figure in the fading light of dusk, he was mounted on a splendid charger, and he rode alone, a hint of longing on his face for the mortal world that he had forsaken.”

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