1) In folklore that sort of ring of mushrooms is known as a fairy circle. They spring up in areas that fairies have been playing or holding court. There is a tradition that if you enter a fairy circle you may be enslaved, unable to leave for years, or forced to dance until the point of exhaustion/death.
2) Cold iron is able to repel, bind, or harm various types of fairy (depending on where you get your folklore.)
3) Fiaires are also infamous for abducting very young children and leaving non-responsive simulacra in their place (which is as good an explanation of autism as modern science has provided, so hooray for old folk tales?)
Anyhow, the joke is that when the liability obsessed removed all that dangerous metal playground equipment they opened up a way for the wee folk to start wholesale child abducting.
So what I took from that is plastic causes autism. Thank you I will bring this info back to my million moms group to justify the measles death of my 8 month old.
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u/Al_DeGaulle 2d ago
There are three parts to this.
1) In folklore that sort of ring of mushrooms is known as a fairy circle. They spring up in areas that fairies have been playing or holding court. There is a tradition that if you enter a fairy circle you may be enslaved, unable to leave for years, or forced to dance until the point of exhaustion/death.
2) Cold iron is able to repel, bind, or harm various types of fairy (depending on where you get your folklore.)
3) Fiaires are also infamous for abducting very young children and leaving non-responsive simulacra in their place (which is as good an explanation of autism as modern science has provided, so hooray for old folk tales?)
Anyhow, the joke is that when the liability obsessed removed all that dangerous metal playground equipment they opened up a way for the wee folk to start wholesale child abducting.