Sadly, Fadó fadó did not come up during my travels, even with all the history (and some fairy tales!) that we were learning, though our tour guide did sheepishly admit to us that he didn't know much Gaelic at all.
We did get to hear about the highway that got re-routed around a hawthorn tree at the cost of several million dollars: Hawthorns are considered likely fairy-dwellings, apparently, and no one on the construction crew would cut down this massive tree that was in the way of the new road, so the foreman says that he'll cut it down himself the very next day, but then on the way home that night he gets killed in a car accident. And of course then really no one will cut it down, and they decide the most prudent thing is to move the path of the road instead. So that's kind of a fairy-story!
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Date: 2010-01-18 09:07 pm (UTC)We did get to hear about the highway that got re-routed around a hawthorn tree at the cost of several million dollars: Hawthorns are considered likely fairy-dwellings, apparently, and no one on the construction crew would cut down this massive tree that was in the way of the new road, so the foreman says that he'll cut it down himself the very next day, but then on the way home that night he gets killed in a car accident. And of course then really no one will cut it down, and they decide the most prudent thing is to move the path of the road instead. So that's kind of a fairy-story!