From Best Friends magazine, September/October 1999:

The foreman of an Irish highway project will face the fierce wrath of local fairies if his team cuts down a white-blossomed hawthorn bush in their construction path, according to local folklore authorities.

The 15-foot-high bush, they say, is home to some easily angered fairies.

Rather than tempt fate, construction crews have already rerouted other highways in 150 locations around Ireland that are said to be home to fairies.

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