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3. The Fairy Forts and the Curse of Tara, Ireland
Ireland is one of those places with an abundance of myths and folklore. Mythical creatures is a norm and of course the Fairy Folk. Even til this day, there are certain things that people should or shouldn’t do especially when far from civilisation in fear of getting cursed or in turn, disturbed by fairy folk. It’s something along the lines of, if you don’t disturb us, we wont disturb you kinda pact between humans and fairy folk.
Now, there are thousands of ring forts throughout the Irish countryside which are said to be fairy forts. Folklore about these fairy forts said that the beings that protect them would curse anything that disturbs the forts a bit like the Duwende from Filipino Folklore. Their curse includes but not exclusive to children disappearing, crops failing, animals including livestock becoming barren, death and other unlucky things that could happen.
There’s a few stories of people destroying these forts and end up with misfortune. The latest one happened in 2007 when the construction of the M3 Motorway destroyed several fairy forts in the Tara Skyrne Valley. They call it ” The Curse of Tara” because the Minister of Environment encountered an armed gang and later lost his job, a worker was trapped and died, the chief Health and Safety Officer was nearly killed by a falling tree, the place seems to be accident prone, and a lot of wasp nests seemed to appear across the valley. So if you plan to go to Ireland, try to be respectful to nature or risk getting cursed by fairy folk.