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Irish Term for Creeping Mist

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  • 08-12-2016 11:23pm
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    SecretGarden
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭


    This morning saw a beautiful sunrise into a clear sky. I watched as a mist crept across the fields, no more than 4 ~ 5ft high, hugging the grass as it moved, penetrating hedgerows, giving them and the lower part of tree trunks an opaque appearance while the tree crown remained clear in the morning light.

    I've spent today trying to recall the Irish term we used as children to relate this phenomenon - please, if any of you know this term - share it, take my out of my torment. Thanks in advance


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    DanMurphy
    Registered Users Posts: 398 ✭✭DanMurphy


    My Mother used to call this 'Ceo Na Sí' or in English, The Fairie Fog / Fairie Mist.

    It's mentioned in William Allingham's famous Poem 'Fairies.'

    In Irish folklore, 'the Little People' use the mist as cover when moving from place to place to avoid the prying eyes of us mortals!


    Your description was wonderful by the way, and your words captured the scene very well.


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    SecretGarden
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭SecretGarden


    Thanks DanMurphy - what a lovely name for it. Sadly, we're losing some of this beautiful language - it would be lovely to make a collection! One day... one day...


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    DanMurphy
    Registered Users Posts: 398 ✭✭DanMurphy


    Well, just go ahead and do it!
    If you don't. who will?


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    Jellybaby1
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    DanMurphy wrote: »
    Well, just go ahead and do it!
    If you don't. who will?

    Well said! I agree wholeheartedly. SecretGarden, time waits for no man/woman. Its shorter than we think.


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    DanMurphy
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    That same Faerie mist fascinated me as a child. They were more numerous during those calm late September evenings.

    To me, every fog-bank creeping across a field contained King Brian and his Host!


    I wrote a poem about it for my kids many moons ago, during my writing days.

    Ahh, those innocent days.


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    SecretGarden
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭SecretGarden


    DanMurphy wrote: »
    Well, just go ahead and do it!
    If you don't. who will?
    That should teach me to shut up at times - yes you are right of course
    Change begins with the self

    I've tried to use several excuses but deleted them again, none were reason enough not to do as you suggest

    The question is, will I ever apply myself to the task?


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