Celtic fairy traditions
Fairy Paths
Tara testimony describes a fairy procession following a recurring route through bushes and between houses. Interference is associated with a man’s death and with warnings against cutting the vegetation. Evans-Wentz separately reports a mystic’s explanation of fairy paths as magnetic arteries. That account attempts to translate a traditional rule into an occult model of the earth.
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Principal account
ReportedTara testimony describes a fairy procession following a recurring route through bushes and between houses. Interference is associated with a man’s death and with warnings against cutting the vegetation.
Further detail
ReportedEvans-Wentz separately reports a mystic’s explanation of fairy paths as magnetic arteries. That account attempts to translate a traditional rule into an occult model of the earth.
Context & interpretation
Evans-Wentz combines named informants, manuscript narratives, and his own psychical theory in a 1911 survey. This entry preserves those distinctions: collected belief and literary tradition do not establish the physical existence of an Otherworld.
Original passages
Source 1
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
One of the passes used by this processionOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Celtic fairy traditions; active reader leaf 64
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0045-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0045-E001-P0064
- Original scan leaf
- 65
- Recorded leaf number
- 65
- Current Reader position
- 60
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Source 2
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
Fairy-Faith in its details, regards * fairy paths ' or ' fairy passes ' as actual magnetic arteries, so to speak, throughOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Celtic fairy traditions; active reader leaf 64
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0045-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0045-E001-P0064
- Original scan leaf
- 65
- Recorded leaf number
- 65
- Current Reader position
- 60
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed
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