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We can only imagine the distress and anguish of parents looking for a child or family member. The girl managed to overcome her ordeal but the site of the abduction was recorded by the locals and preserved so as to make sure nobody else suffered the same fate.Ī little girl from Wicklow vanished for three days ( Stefan / Adobe Stock) When the girl finally reappeared she told her parents that she had been taken away by tiny men in red. The whole community searched high and low for her, looking in the fields, ditches and woodlands but to no avail. Wicklow when a young girl vanished for three days. When a person, or even a child, goes missing there are repercussions which manifest in the local folklore and attitudes to the fairies. There's always a price.īut these are not the traumatic experiences I have alluded to at the start of this article. The second fairy gift associated with the Ring of the Rath is that musicians can sleep here overnight during one of the ancient Pagan festival dates and when they awake they will receive the gift of otherworldly musicianship. This is also the case for a person seeking to marry they can make a request to the fairies and ancestor spirits of this place and it is said that if their wish is granted they will be married within a year providing the ritual has been done correctly. The first is that a couple who cannot conceive can visit the Rath at certain times of the year and ask the fairies for help. This ancient site has two main attributes supposedly connected to the power of the fairies. Sometimes, though, people actively seek to enter the land of the fairies and deliberately visit a place associated with the good people in order to commune or seek a gift of some sort.Ī fairy ring made from naturally growing mushrooms ( CC by SA 3.0 )Īn example of the latter is a place called the Ring of the Rath on the Wicklow/ Carlow border. We do hear of warnings of course don't step into the fairy circle - whether it be a ring of mushrooms or a group ancient stones. That is providing they recover enough to even speak about it because meeting the fairy folk can lead to abduction, madness and even death. Many accounts within Irish folklore describe people who have had a much more disturbing fairy encounter and those who speak of these experiences are very often traumatised by what has happened to them.

When we think of fairies many of the more popular tales tend to have an almost playful nature but it would be wrong to assume that this is means that fairies are always benign.