'Do you believe in Fairies' Traditional Cache
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'Do you believe in Fairies'
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"True Thomas lay on Huntlie Bank
A ferlie he spied wi' his ee
And there he saw a ladye bright
Come riding down by the Eildon tree"
Legend tells how Thomas the Rhymer fell asleep near here,
beneath a tree on the side of the Eildon Hills.
He woke to see a shining lady on a dappled grey horse-The Queen of the Fairies!
She entranced him and led him away to Fairy Land.
He stayed there for what seemed to be three days,but was in fact seven years.When he left she gave him the gift of speaking the truth and told him many prophecies of great events in Scotland's history.
Thomas became famous both as a poet and as someone who knew the future.
He prophesied that one day 'a bridge over Tweed would be visible from the Eildon tree'.
If you have sharp eyes you can see whether this has come true!
If you sit down to rest-take care.The Fairy Queen promised Thomas she would return to the Eildon tree perhaps this time you will fall under her spell.
Thomas was a real person who lived in the late 1200's in Erceldoune (now Earlston on the road to Edinburgh)
His life is as mysterious as some of his prophecies,which were 'Ay hid under obscure words' as one early historian said.But his rhymes have been popular for hundreds of years and are some of the earliest examples of Scottish poetry.
'Beware a fair lady on a grey horse'
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