My wife is a dyed in the wool atheist, but she would not enter a fairy ring if you paid her. This fear and fascination with borders runs bone deep in the Irish psyche and ties into our historic relationship with the fairy realm. It’s at times like that when the… things in the other world can cross into ours. Why is Halloween so creepy? Because Samhain occurs on October 31 st, right when Autumn ends and Winter begins on the Gaelic calendar. And not a second before.” Borders are where things get weird, where things aren’t one thing or another.
Ask an Irish person when summer begins and they’ll say “ 01 May. Ask an American when summer begins and they’ll say “Ohhhh, round about Memorial day, I guess?”.
The places in space and time where one thing ends and another starts.
You know that episode of the Simpsons where they’re crossing from the American embassy into Australia and Homer’s all “Look boy! Now I’m in America! Now I’m in Australia! America! Australia!” and so on and so forth? Imagine an entire culture built around that joke and you have the Irish.
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