Talk:Fairy ring

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  • The article says they grow to 10 metres, but this article points to fairy rings grown to half a

kilometer wide:

http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/141_faeryrings.shtml

You are right fairy rings can grow up to hundreds of meters. Juan de Vojníkov 17:22, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
  • I think the explanation of the growing mechanism is wrong. "Since multiple spores of seperate fungi overlap..."? Come on. A fairy ring is a single organism growing under the ground from the inside out and building the visible mushrooms at the outside border.
You are not right in this case, cus fairy ring genet consist of more taxa. Juan de Vojníkov 17:22, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

This article ignores another less common type of fairy ring. a small perfectly cercular clearing within a forest or stand of trees. Such a clearing exists on my family's land in Tullamore, county Offaly Ireland. The story that goes with it is very similar to the folklore surrounding the mushroom rings. Its where the fairies meet/dance.

However it goes a bit further than that. Crossing though or standing in the fairy ring is generally ill advised and if one were to break a branch, stick, or remove anything from the circle it would be a very bad thing. There are numerous local stories about the ring. For example some people brought an empty coffin to the fairy ring and left it there over night. When it was checked on later one of the men was found dead, spread eagle, his mouth stuffed with leaves and branches where the coffin once was.

Where as the mushroom rings refer to a common physical phenomenon that has a link to folklore, the tree rings are almost completely bound to folklore. They are typically perminant locations (the one in Tullamore has supposedly existed for several thousand years) with very specific local stories and occurences linked to them. The tree circles are sufficiantly different and significant in the sense to folklore to mentioned in the article.

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You are right, lets implement your knoweledge into this article.Juan de Vojníkov 17:22, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dead link

I replaced a dead link to http://www.uio.no/conferences/imc7/NFotm99/October99.htm via the wayback machine and my link works but I'm not sure I used the template correctly. Please check it if you have the relevant knowledge. It is this link under "External links":

Random Passer-by 01:56, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

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