Fairy Bridge

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Fairy Bridge might refer to one of two locations on the Isle of Man:

• The Fairy Bridge better known to tourists is that in the parish of Malew on the A5 road from Douglas to Castletown just below Ballalonna Bridge (Ordnance Survey Landranger SC304718) in Ballalonna Glen on the Santon Burn.
• The original "Real Fairy Bridge" is located in the parish of Braddan across the Middle River on the footpath from Oakhill to Kewaigue (Ordnance Survey Landranger SC353742)
• A once-popular superstition on the Isle of Man is to greet the fairies when crossing the fairy bridge - it is supposedly unlucky not to. However, like many local superstitions on the Isle of Man, it is changing with the influx of new residents. It has always been a whimsical practice, never taken too seriously, despite food writer A.A. Gill's repetition in London newspaper "The Times" of an urban myth that taxi drivers will stop if the passenger does not greet the fairies.
• In the last decade, with the growth of alternative belief systems, superstitious practices have changed to include placing notes on the trees around the bridge.