Faery Mounds

[Protagonist]

What are they? Do they exist? What happens if one ends up in one? Can one end up in one? What happens if one loses one's meal plan card therein?

[Meadhbh]

A lsit of the Irish fairy mounds can be found here: http://www.shee-eire.com/Magic&Mythology/Fairylore/shee-mounds/page%201.htm (http://www.shee-eire.com/Magic&Mythology/Fairylore/shee-mounds/page%201.htm)
What happens to you really depends on the mood of your hosts and there are ways for a person to remain trapped in side the mound. For example if you eat or drink anything offered to you while you are there, or if you dance with the fae you may be unable to leave. There is a way to get people from the mound with two of his friends forming a human chain and pulling the person from the circle of dancing fae. Believe the wizard of Reay made a habit of finding those lost in the faerie and returning them home.

[RdeHwyll]

What are they? Do they exist? What happens if one ends up in one? Can one end up in one? What happens if one loses one's meal plan card therein?

What are they? Entrances to Underhill, the place where the Fey live. Do they exist? Yes -- see attachment! The rest of your questions? I don't have any answers for you... but you COULD do an online search and read the legends...

[Shanti]

That pic looks to me like a typical earth mound created physical either by nature, such as a spot a tree once stood, or by people like in the farm fields were the farmer of long ago piled rocks from the field and over time it grew over and now is a mound.

I am not saying fairy mounds are not real. In my life I have never experienced one..so I dont know.

That pic just looks very ordinary.

It just all makes me wonder how anyone could tell the difference between... a plain old mound and a fairy mound.

Heck you can hollow mounds too...like a badger den thats was abandoned ages ago and totally grew over and shut.
Or a hollow mound created by a tree. The tree died so long ago that the roots decayed away and left hollow areas inside the mound.


I wouldnt mind having the experience of visiting a fairy mound!! :)

[Amethyst Rose]

I was gonna ask what makes the mound pictured any different from all the other mounds out there.... or are they all fairy mounds?

Unfortunately, I'm a skeptic though, so until I see a fairy dancing in the fairy ring on my lawn, I'll be on the fence about their existence and anything relating to them.

[Teresa]

What are they? Do they exist? What happens if one ends up in one? Can one end up in one? What happens if one loses one's meal plan card therein?
If you lost your meal plan card in one I am afraid You may have to get a duplicate from the school which may have a fee attached to it.:hugz:

[mucgwyrt]

... Fairy mounds are iron age burial mounds here in england and wales. They were called such by the celts and english who travelled to britain way after the burials had taken place, and presumabley they found the burial mounds mysterious and taboo. You CAN go inside; they are often hollow with stone chambers inside. They're all over the place here in the UK; common as muck :nyah:

See the attached photos; they're of West Kennet Long Barrow :)