Meeting the other crowd

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"The Other Crowd," "The Good People," "The Wee Folk," and "Them" are a few of the names given to the fairies by the people of Ireland. Honored for their gifts and feared for their wrath, the fairies remind us to respect the world we live in and forces we cannot see. In Meeting the Other Crowd, master Irish folklorist Eddie Lenihan presents his definitive collection of stories from his native Ireland of the mysterious creatures who, by turns, afflict, enlighten, and instruct those who cross their paths. Lenihan's name traveled around the world not long ago when he protested to a group of highway developers in southern Ireland that their destruction of a modest-looking hawthorn bush would cause grave danger to anyone using the new road to pass by-brakes could fail and lives might even be lost. The bush was a "fairy bush" and was well known as such in Lenihan's home county, County Clare. In the end, the developers decided to reroute the road and bypass the tree. Although this act was... Tovább

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"The Other Crowd," "The Good People," "The Wee Folk," and "Them" are a few of the names given to the fairies by the people of Ireland. Honored for their gifts and feared for their wrath, the fairies remind us to respect the world we live in and forces we cannot see. In Meeting the Other Crowd, master Irish folklorist Eddie Lenihan presents his definitive collection of stories from his native Ireland of the mysterious creatures who, by turns, afflict, enlighten, and instruct those who cross their paths. Lenihan's name traveled around the world not long ago when he protested to a group of highway developers in southern Ireland that their destruction of a modest-looking hawthorn bush would cause grave danger to anyone using the new road to pass by-brakes could fail and lives might even be lost. The bush was a "fairy bush" and was well known as such in Lenihan's home county, County Clare. In the end, the developers decided to reroute the road and bypass the tree. Although this act was Lenihan's most widely publicized effort to protect the delicate balance between the humán and fairy worlds, it is only a small example of what has become Lenihan's lifework. A teacher, histórián, and folklorist, Lenihan has been collecting true-life stories from the elders of southern Ireland for nearly thirty years. (¦Continued on back flap) Vissza