Travelling the Fairy Path by Morgan Daimler

Author:Morgan Daimler [Daimler, Morgan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Moon Books
Published: 2018-09-27T16:00:00+00:00

In that case she offered him bread and wine from her own hand, again suggesting that she had some power in herself to mitigate the usual rules of Fairy, but that if Thomas took the food from the source himself there would be some dire consequence to him.

The two continue on for ‘forty days and forty nights’ through rivers, perpetual twilight, darkness, and rivers of blood; interestingly we find out that the rivers of blood are created by all the blood shed on earth. They stop again and this time the Queen picks an apple from a tree and offers it to Thomas as his payment for his service telling him it will give him the gift of true speech. At first he tries to refuse, saying he would rather keep his speech his own, but the Queen insists. He is also given a new coat and a pair of green shoes. In the older version Thomas asks the Queen for a gift and she gives him the choice of a gift of harping or a gift of speech and prophecy; Thomas chooses speech which he thinks is the more powerful (Henderson & Cowan, 2001). After seven years Thomas is returned to earth; in the Erceldoune version he has only experienced three days in Fairy but finds that seven years have passed on earth, while in the ballad versions he is clearly taken into service for seven years. This is where the ballads end although the folklore about Thomas himself tells us that the Fairy Queen returned for him, sending him a sign – a doe and stag – to lead him back into Fairy where it’s believed he still remains today (Henderson & Cowan, 2001).

The Ballad of Thomas the Rhymer, or True Thomas as he’s sometimes called, provides us with many pieces of fairylore. It reinforces the importance of the colour green and the number seven, and the idea that Fairy exists in perpetual twilight, an idea we see elsewhere as well. Here we are told that blood shed on earth flows in Fairy, and we also perhaps see a hint that those who are taken into Fairy and returned again are not truly freed. Above all, for those of us on this path this may serve as a good guide and warning tale about dealing with and being in service to the Fairy Queens.

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