What happens if you eat fairy food

In comparison, in one Scottish account a ploughman felt thirsty and, hearing a butter churn, wished out loud for a drink from it. A woman in green appeared and offered him some fresh buttermilk. He refused this because her clothing made him suspect her supernatural nature. A similar fate befell a man from the Isle of Man who refused to eat some oatmeal porridge offered by the fairies. There is also a variant of the Scottish story involving two men working near a fairy knoll: one refuses the butter milk and dies within the year; the other drinks it gladly and is further rewarded with a wish- which was never to drown.

In a third such incident a man from the Isle of Harris passed a fairy knoll at Bearnairidh and heard churning. He was thirsty and wished for a drink, but when a woman in green appeared and offered him fresh milk, he refused it.

She cursed him and, very shortly afterwards, he took a boat but drowned when it sank. Intriguingly, it seems that the outright refusal to accept the offered food is what offends, rather than the details of the manner its consumption.

There is a record of an elderly Scottish woman called Nanzy who had long had friendly dealings with her local fairies. She often met them when she was out and about and they gave her presents, such as rolls of fairy butter. Now, she was too respectable a Christian woman to actually eat this, good as it looked, so she instead used for other household purposes. Given that there are stories of horses dying for refusing to touch fairy food, the indication is that even accepting a foodstuff from the faes and then feeding it to your pigs would not insult them.

Accounts vary. A man from Dornoch in Sutherland was taken by the fairies and flew with them. At the other end of the scale, one Scottish writer states that fairy bread tastes like the finest wheaten loaf mixed with honey and wine. A final account fits better with this last report than those that allege that fairy food is nothing but inedible rubbish.

Two Shetland fishermen were caught by a storm and had to land their boat on the uninhabited island of Linga. After a few days, conditions improved and one of them men took the boat, deserting his companion Thom. However, that night Thom found a trow banquet taking place in the hut where he was sheltering. The trows tried to chase him off but he resisted and fired his gun, causing the supernatural assembly to vanish, but leaving behind all their food.

He was able to survive extremely well on this for many days until his girlfriend sailed to find him. She had been suspicious when the companion, Willie, returned alone and had tried to marry her, so she carried out a search. If you wish to give them something, do not feed them junk that was bought at the grocery store. There are two very early sources that suggest that fairies avoid meat: Gerald of Wales tells the story of Elidyr who visited fairy land in his youth.

If a person eats Fae food IN Faerie lands they become trapped and unable to stomach human food ever again if they escape. If the Fae who marked or took them releases them of the bonds then they can eat human food again. The fae find it disrespectful as it dilutes their act of kindness or whatever they have done for you. Depending on the region, fairies are said to live in woodland communities, underground kingdoms, or inhabit lakes, hills, or stone or grass circles — often along with centaurs, elves, ogres, gnomes and other such animals.

Even collecting dew from the grass or flowers of a fairy ring can bring bad luck. Destroying a fairy ring is unlucky and fruitless; superstition says it will just grow back. That seems bad. Or rather, be very careful with any gift you are given. And never, ever say thank you for a gift. It implies that you owe them something, like a cheeseburger, or your firstborn. And I got the rest of my info by Googling the same thing like twenty times, because I kept forgetting everything I read.

Critical question: How is one supposed to identify these awful sounding creatures? Also, are tennis rackets an effective mode of combat against them? If not, how about a lightsaber? The early Celts recognized an intimate relationship between man and nature: unperceived by man, unseen forces — not dissimilar to what Melanesians call Mana- looked on as animate and intelligent and frequently individual entities guided every act of human life.

It was the special duty of Druids to act as intermediaries between the world of men and the world of the Tuatha De Danann; and, as old Irish literature indicates clearly, it was through the exercise of powers of divination on the part of Druids that these declared what was taboo or what was unfavourable, and also what it was favourable for the divine king or hero to perform. As long as man kept himself in harmony with this unseen fairy-world in the background of nature, all was well; but as soon as a taboo was broken, disharmony in the relationship-which was focused in a king or hero — was set up; and when, as in the case of Cuchulainn, many taboos were violated, death was inevitable and not even the Tuatha De Danann could intercede.

Breaking of a royal or hero taboo not only affects the violator, but his subjects or followers as well: in some cases the king seems to suffer vicariously for his people.

Almost every great Gaelic hero-a god or Great Fairy Being incarnate — is overshadowed with an impending fate, which only the strictest observance of taboo can avoid.

Irish taboo, and inferentially all Celtic taboo, dates back to an unknown pagan antiquity. It is imposed at or before birth, or again during life, usually at some critical period, and when broken brings disaster and death to the breaker.

Its whole background appears to rest on a supernatural relationship between divine men and the Otherworid of the Tuatha De Danann; and it is very certain that this ancient relationship survives in the living Fairy-Faith as one between ordinary men and the fairy-world.

Therefore, almost all taboos surviving among Celts ought to be interpreted psychologically or even psychically, and not as ordinary social regulations. Food-sacrifice plays a very important role in the modern Fairy-Faith, being still practised, as our evidence shows, in each one of the Celtic countries.

Without any doubt it is a survival from pagan times, when, as we shall observe later, propitiatory offerings were regularly made to the Tuatha De Danann as gods of the earth, and, apparently, to other orders of spiritual beings.

The anthropological significance of such food-sacrifice is unmistakable. With the same propitiatory ends in view as modern Celts now have in offering food to fairies, ancient peoples, e. And such sacrifices, so essential a part of most ancient religions, were based on the belief, as stated by Porphyry in his Treatise Concerning Abstinence, that all the various orders of gods, genii or daemons, enjoy as nourishment the odour of burnt offerings.

And like the Fairy-Folk, the daemons of the air live not on the gross substance of food, but on its finer invisible essences, conveyed to them most easily on the altar-fire.