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Marianne Mathiasen
My name is Marianne and my fairy name is Ranunkel. I was born in
Denmark in 1962 where I still live. The only person in my family who truly
believed in fairies and gnomes was my grandmother. As a child she asked me to
bring stew and beer to the gnome living in the stable. She told me that if we
didn't bring him food the pigs in the stable would become ill and die. I also
remember one time when she got mad because my dad was supposed to help my
granddad to cut down some trees behind the farm. They wanted to cut down an old
elder tree, and my granddad laughed at my grandmother, because she thought that
the elder spirit living inside the tree would get angry if we cut down her home.
She told us the story about a farm near by that burned down, after they had cut
down an old elder tree near by the main building of the farm. When I was 17
years old I got to know my husband, and he introduced me to the books by
Tolkien. I started to read about the Hobbits. My husband and I decided that we
would tell our children fairy tales, and of cause we also taught our children to
be kind to fairies, gnomes and other nature spirits. When my son started in
school he had a hard time learning to read, and it was with a great deal of
thanks to Harry Potter he actually sat down and began to read for him self. I
bought the first book, and read it to him, but when the second book was
published he just couldn't wait for me to read to him, so he began to read the
book him self. My daughter went through a period in her teen years where she got
interested in pagan believes, and she began to read books on the old Viking
mythology and the English Wicca believes. To day she is a strong believer in
fairies and gnomes. Now I live on Als, and during the summertime I spend most of
the time drawing and painting in my garden.
May the fairies watch over
you!
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