A post on Strange Company offers good advice: Never, ever mess with a tree inhabited by fairies. The Little Folk have ways of making you regret it.
In 1959, in the Irish town of Fintona, gardeners hired by the Fintona Golf Club to rip up a thorn hedge, instead bulldozed a “fairy thorn,” a tree with ancient supernatural associations. The townspeople were incensed, and fearful of possible revenge from the Good People.
It didn’t take long. A pensioner who took some of the wood for firewood heard strange tinkling sounds and saw tiny will-o-the-wisps flying about. When he went to retrieve more, he found himself entranced, unable to move from the spot where the tree was felled.
Interesting tale to be told, but also one that could do with an update. In the modern world, what else do fairies hold dear? What modern conveniences or delights might they have taken to? What would they do to protect them or avenge their loss? What happens next?
