The light, which was as high as your head above the ground, was composed of myriads of glow-worms all holding on to each other, and so forming a dazzling canopy over the fairy ring. There were thousands of little people looking on, but they were in shadow and drab in colour compared to the glorious creatures within that luminous circle who were so bewilderingly bright that Maimie had to wink hard all the time she looked at them.
Trumpets brayed, the moon came out, and immediately a thousand couples seized hold of its rays as if they were ribbons in a May dance and waltzed in wild abandon round the fairy ring. Most gladsome sight of all, the Cupids plucked the hated fools' caps from their heads and cast them high in the air.
When she began to dance, by way of showing the gossoons what she had seen in the
fairy rings at night, the house broke into a prolonged uproar.
him, half a
fairy ring builds with every sharp pull and
Look out for chanterelles, porcini,
fairy ring, chicken of the woods, hedgehog, puffballs and morels, which are at their best at this time of year.
As they gather soft white daises, to make a daisy chain, To dance around a
fairy ring, till night time comes again.
The 20ft brick base was found when the Freshfields estate was being built on the former Open Air school site, it formed a giant
fairy ring of grass and daisies.
Hostesses may choose to throw a Genie Dreams party, Bollywood Bash, Island Hukilau, Flapper Fete, Mermaid Dip & Dive, Pin-Up Play Date, Moulin Rouge Spectacular, Charm Class,
Fairy Ring Roundup or a number of other whimsical offerings.
Fimi notes similarities between "Goblin Feet" and George Cruikshank's 19th-century watercolor A Fantasy: The
Fairy Ring, which depicts tiny fairies dancing around a toadstool, and a small black goblin riding a bat (14).
Quite a lot: in some parts of Europe, superstition held that the passing mortal who stepped inside a
fairy ring would be punished with the loss of an eye, or be struck blind in both.
Jake Wells is working as a trainee press officer for the Government Department of Science, and is sent to cover a story about protests against a new University Science Block, on the grounds that there is a traditional '
fairy ring' on the site.