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RE: Have you lost your mind......of a child?

in #esteem6 years ago

Where i come from, magic and fairies were always a big topic. When we were very young my father used to make up stories every night about fairies, leprechauns, banshees and everything else you could think of.

Now this wasn't unusual as the elder generation still held onto a lot of the old beliefs going back centuries. We had a patch of trees on our land that couldn't be cut down as it was grown around a fairy fort. If you heard a banshee then a member of your family was on deaths door and so on......

Now we grew up hearing these stories and believing them. I can't remember when i stopped believing but i will still remember them fondly and know that some people still keep up the old traditions.

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Wow that is one epic story I love it. You clearly have the luck of the Irish that no banshees ever got to you! It sounds like an awsome fantasy to grow up in. I can only imagine how kids must have messed with one another and had the most fun pretending to see one!

We had a little demon called a Tokolosh that would hide under your bed so you better go to bed early, i think that was just parents way of keeping us honest but everyone knew not to mess with the Tokoloshy