Tyson Yunkaporta
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first heard Feb 2020
last heard 10 Jun
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So, an old wooden castle, pre-Brits,
The castle would be up on a mound, but then the castle would rot away and it just left with this strange mound and often stones around it.
And then hundreds of years later, people would just assume, I don't know what the fuck that is, but it must have been the fairies that put it there.
And we call this a fairy fort.
And this is why, luckily...
Like we've got monuments in Ireland that are five, six thousand years old because the superstition and fear of them was so great that even when the coloniser came in, it's like Paddy is terrified of that hill.
Let's just leave it alone.
That's it.
It's just like, I know what he believes is probably bullshit, but they're terrified of this hill.
Can we just leave it be?
And that's why we still have these things, because the fear was so great.
And it was the same with the, like, Jesus, man, you can find, there's a fella called Eddie Lenehan, and he's a Shanakie, which means that the community has decided that he preserves old stories.
Mm-hmm.
And, like, when Ireland joined the EU and we got all this European money to build roads, like, there was a motorway being built and right there in the middle of the path was a white-torn fairy tree.
And fucking Eddie went to the politicians and the builders and he just said...
You can do it if you want.
I can't stop you, but don't.
They built them all the way around it, man.
They built them all the way around it and out of sheer fear.
You know?
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