{"id":2111,"date":"2015-07-28T19:54:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T19:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2015-07-28T19:54:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T19:54:24","slug":"dead-now-and-their-beliefs-with-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/dead-now-and-their-beliefs-with-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Now, And Their Beliefs With Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Inspired by a story of my fathers about a person who could not find their way into the house one night at a house supposedly built on a fairy fort site, admittedly it was after a feed of home brewed poitin!!!<\/p>\n<p>A version told in the family is that the dude in question was him!&#8230; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/drunk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/drunk.jpg\" alt=\"drunk\" width=\"1226\" height=\"325\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/drunk.jpg 1226w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/drunk-300x80.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/drunk-1024x271.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1226px) 100vw, 1226px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dead now, and beliefs with them<br \/>\nThat under trees fairies consort<br \/>\nAnd we say we&#8217;re not superstitious<br \/>\nYet alone we leave the fairy tree and fort.<\/p>\n<p>Tales were told of when were lost<br \/>\nIn a fairy fort at night<br \/>\nTo be found by morning<br \/>\nHighly confused but all right<br \/>\nAfter walking round in circles<br \/>\nTheir way they could not make<br \/>\nToday we blame the whiskey<br \/>\nFor causing their mistake<\/p>\n<p>And maybe it was the whiskey<br \/>\nBut that spoils the romance<br \/>\nOf the story, and of our culture<br \/>\nCan we not believe in the chance<br \/>\nThat maybe the fairies were angry<br \/>\nAt this drunkard at their tree trunk<br \/>\nThat they cast a spell to make him walk in circles<br \/>\nUntil he sobered and was not drunk?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by a story of my fathers about a person who could not find their way into the house one night at a house supposedly built on a fairy fort site, admittedly it was after a feed of home brewed poitin!!! A version told in the family is that the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,23],"tags":[1403,960,2283,1218,1259],"class_list":["post-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-folklore-and-legend","category-north-longford","tag-drunk","tag-fairy","tag-fairy-tree","tag-folklore","tag-tree","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-y3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2476,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/restless-sidhe-of-keeraun-hill\/","url_meta":{"origin":2111,"position":0},"title":"Restless S\u00eddhe of Keeraun Hill","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"2nd January 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Keeraun Hill is a fairy fort, or ring fort, or Danish fort, call it what you will outside Banagher in County Offaly in Ireland. 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The taboo still exists in theses modern times Among those who are close to the land Live the air,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Fairies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Fairies","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/ireland\/irish-legend\/fairies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Keeraun Hill, near Banagher in Co. 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If they did, I hope they did not mind, I hope my trespassing they did forgive, I came to see, to walk, to enjoy,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Irish War of Independence 1919- 1921&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Irish War of Independence 1919- 1921","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/irelands-wars\/irish-war-of-independence-1919-1921\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Fairy Fort in Derrycassin Wood in Longford","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/The-Fairy-Fort-in-Derrycassin-Wood-in-Longford.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/The-Fairy-Fort-in-Derrycassin-Wood-in-Longford.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/The-Fairy-Fort-in-Derrycassin-Wood-in-Longford.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/The-Fairy-Fort-in-Derrycassin-Wood-in-Longford.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3505,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/shin-rin-yoku\/","url_meta":{"origin":2111,"position":3},"title":"Shin Rin Yoku","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"22nd January 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The only \"Bards in the Woods\" I managed to attend was a few years back, in Mullinaleaghta in Longford, where John Wilmott and myself toured the grounds of the Dopping-Hepenstal estate. Being the fountain of knowledge I am I was telling him all about them as then knew it, not\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Nature&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Nature","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/nature-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fairy Fort in the grounds of Derrycassin Wood","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/The-Fairy-Fort-in-Derrycassin-Wood-in-Longford.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/The-Fairy-Fort-in-Derrycassin-Wood-in-Longford.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/The-Fairy-Fort-in-Derrycassin-Wood-in-Longford.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/The-Fairy-Fort-in-Derrycassin-Wood-in-Longford.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":901,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/gates-to-the-gods\/","url_meta":{"origin":2111,"position":4},"title":"Gates to the Gods","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"22nd December 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Gates to the gods, the people flocks, To worship at the waters pure, To leave tokens, offerings there... Take home some water as a cure... Should that well be fouled somehow, By folk it was often said... It would dry up, being desecrated... To spring up elsewhere instead... Wise preachers\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Folklore and Legend&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Folklore and Legend","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/folklore-and-legend\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh at Tubberpatrick well, with rags on the Fairy Tree in the background","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Tomas-O-Carthaigh-at-Tubberpatrick-well-with-rags-on-the-Fairy-Tree-in-the-background.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Tomas-O-Carthaigh-at-Tubberpatrick-well-with-rags-on-the-Fairy-Tree-in-the-background.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Tomas-O-Carthaigh-at-Tubberpatrick-well-with-rags-on-the-Fairy-Tree-in-the-background.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Tomas-O-Carthaigh-at-Tubberpatrick-well-with-rags-on-the-Fairy-Tree-in-the-background.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4991,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-fairy-boatmen-of-banagher\/","url_meta":{"origin":2111,"position":5},"title":"The Fairy Boatmen of Banagher","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"24th July 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Verse inspired by a story from the folkore collection Out walking his dog on a July evening In the river there afloat What he thought were local children Our on the water in someones boat. 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