Re: folklore question

On 6/21/2012 5:28 AM, Jette Goldie wrote:
> On 21/06/2012 01:56, Jenny Tait wrote:
>> On 6/20/2012 2:31 AM, Jette Goldie wrote
>>>
>>> Of course they were more attracted to the homes of people who drew their
>>> attention - mentioning them by name, wearing green, etc.
>>>
>>
>> Wearing green you say. I guess I know what my cats see that I don't.
>> About 90 percent of my wardrobe is green.
>>
>>
>
> my mother was quite supersticious and held that green was an 'unlucky'
> colour - especially for children. I - aged 5 - complained that green
> was my favourite colour and mum would never let me wear it.
>
> That was until I came in one day and announced that I had met 'the Queen
> of the Fairies" in the lane behind our house - and then went on to
> describe not Disney's Tinkerbell, or the cutesy Victorian style fairies,
> but quite clearly the traditional Sidhe - tall, slender, riding horses,
> etc.
>
> 1) I shouldn't have known about *these* "Faeries" because no one had
> told me those stories and there were no books in the house that would
> have described them.
> 2) there was no lane behind our house - our garden backed onto the
> garden of the house on the next street.
>
> Mum went very pale as I described this, then Gran laughed and said
> "might as well let her wear green - seems she's already got *their*
> attention anyway."
>

That is incredibly awesome!


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