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Nagorye, in central Russia, in September diggers moved on to a site on the outskirts as a description of Staten Island, ‘with its 1979. It was dusk when a student, Igor _ of the village, which crowns the easterly _ hills and valleys, its lakes and dells, its Kuleshov, was walking with a girlfriend in shore of Loch Earn. forests, its wildflowers, its golden grain a field. He noticed a dark object flying "He said: 'A neighbour came over _ fields, its delightful country lanes, its slowly above the ground ata height of shouting, "Don't move that rock. You'll waving fields of delicious strawberries and about 30 metres. kill the fairies." other fruits, and its wildlife filled with song Igor became speechless as the object "Then we got a series of phone calls, and other birds of all kind'." moved closer and took the form of ahuman saying we were disturbing the fairies. I In Iceland, the fairies and elves are wearing some kind of shining armour likea thought they were joking. It didn't go reportedly so numerous that road knight of the Middle Ages. There was a down very well,’ Mr Salter said." construction projects are often re-routed so pale halo around the flying man. He flew According to the Times: "The rock as not to offend the supernatural creatures right above the astounded couple and _ protruded from the centre of a gently __ living under various rocks. The New York vanished in the direction of a forest. They _ shelving field, edged by the steep slopes of Times reported on 13 July 2005: could also hear something "Recently, the planning committee resembling a rustle of the leaves on considered a resident's application to the wind. build a garage. 'One member said, "I US researchers have put forth hope it's okay with the elves,"'’ Ms two theories as to the origins of the Erlingsdottir [head of the committee] "flying beings". According to the related. first theory, the military conducted Battles between developers ; Shou c the council determine that a series of experiments involving A oe it is, in fact, not okay—usually this residents of areas near secret and fairies aren't limited to happens when a local mystic hears military installations. The places like Scotland. from the elf population, directly or experiments had to do with a mind- through a vision—the town would control research program, which consider moving the project, or allegedly involved the use of getting the mystic to ask the elves to electronic signals to produce the move away, she said. same kind of hallucination. The "Such occurrences are not unusual. second theory maintains that the In nearby Kopavogur, a section of winged creatures do exist, though Elfhill Road was narrowed from two their origins remain pretty murky and Dundurn mountain, where in the sixth _ lanes to one in the 1970s, when repeated unearthly. The creatures turn up in our — century the Celtic missionary St Fillan set efforts to destroy a large rock that was dimension once in a while, only to up camp and attempted to convert the Picts believed to house elves were thwarted by disappear without a trace into another from the pagan darkness of superstition." equipment breakdowns. The rock is still dimension. oo With the locals firmly on the side of the _ there, jutting awkwardly into the road, but (Source: Pravda, 13 March 2006, fairies, the developer had to "redesign the _ it is unclear whether the tenants are. http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/ entire thing from scratch". But it seems "With the artificial lampposts, there's too 77195-flying_creature-O) that the fairies do have some implied legal much light for them, and there's also too rights. As the Times noted: "The Planning much noise,’ explained Gurdrun FAIRIES AND ELVES ASSERT Inspectorate has no specific Suidelines on Bjarnadottir, who has lived across the street THEIR LAND RIGHTS airies, but a spokesman said: 'Planning — for some 30 years. 'A lot of people believe guidance states that local customs and _ they still live there, but I think they've n the Scottish village of St Fillans, beliefs must be taken into account when a_ moved." oo [ress housing developers have lost developer applies for planning (Source: Sploid, 25 November 2005, out to the local fairies. ermission."" http://www.sploid.com/news/2005/11/ Plans to build new homes at the edge of Battles between developers and fairies — dont_anger_the.php) Loch Earn were scrapped when the aren't limited to places like Scotland. New [* Apparently this quote is sourced from villagers went berserk over the builders’ York's Staten Island has its own colony of an undated letter to the Staten Island intention to move a single rock...because fairies who made a complaint that was _ online service SILive.com, quoting from fairies live beneath it. noted in 1939:* a letter addressed to Cornelius G. Kolff, The Times of London reported on 21 "The fairies expressed their fear that, the then president of the Staten Island November 2005: before very long, the beautiful island will Historical Society, and signed by "The "Marcus Salter, head of Genesis have changed into 'a great brick, mortar Council of Staten Island Fairies". Kolff's Properties, estimates that the small colony and steel city, with cement roads, long book, Staten Island Fairies, illustrated by of fairies believed to live beneath a rock in rows of modern houses built closely Alice Sargent Johnson, was published by St Fillans, Perthshire, has cost him _ together and, will...no longer be ahome for Richmond Borough Publishing and £15,000. fairies’. Printing Co., New York, in 1939, and His first notice of the residential "They felt it their duty, Kolff wrote, to can be found in The New York Public sensibilities of the netherworld came as his _ leave a verbal account of their life, as well Library (ref 917.462 K). — Editor] diggers moved on to a site on the outskirts of the village, which crowns the easterly shore of Loch Earn. "He said: 'A neighbour came over shouting, "Don't move that rock. You'll kill the fairies." "Then we got a series of phone calls, saying we were disturbing the fairies. I thought they were joking. It didn't go down very well,’ Mr Salter said." According to the Times: "The rock protruded from the centre of a gently shelving field, edged by the steep slopes of Battles between developers and fairies aren't limited to FAIRIES AND ELVES ASSERT THEIR LAND RIGHTS Perthshire, housing developers have lost out to the local fairies. Plans to build new homes at the edge of Loch Earn were scrapped when the villagers went berserk over the builders’ intention to move a single rock...because fairies live beneath it. The Times of London reported on 21 November 2005: "Marcus Salter, head of Genesis Properties, estimates that the small colony of fairies believed to live beneath a rock in St Fillans, Perthshire, has cost him £15,000. His first notice of the residential sensibilities of the netherworld came as his [: the Scottish village of St Fillans, NEXUS 63 places like Scotland. AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2006 www.nexusmagazine.com