
"The English believed that fairy rings were where fairies came to dance and celebrate, the mushrooms of the rings were used as stools for the fairies to recuperate during the evenings festivities. One European legend tells of the origin of these rings as being burned into the soil by a sleeping dragon's tail."
"Everyone is a visionary" Yeats tells us, "if you scratch him deep enough. But a Celt is a visionary without scratching."