Theres a book about pre-christian beliefs called “The Sacred Isle” by Dáithí Ó hÓgáin
Idea that the fairy walk among us.
Their house was build on a ringfort.
The roots of trees went into the underworld
Torture the changeling so that its fairy parents will see this and they take it back.
Sluagh – the Dead Irish Sinners Kelpie (SCOTTISH) - Shapeshift water creature, sometimes a horse. A folk tale from tells of a lonely kelpie that transforms itself into a handsome young man to woo a pretty young girl it was determined to take for its wife. Other water spirits : Fuath, Each-uisge their eye color would change every time they blinked Parents dressed boys as girls and girls as boys, They can’t resits playing pipes They have a world weary or wise look about them, as if they are older.
