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Hey everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Cryptic Cocktail Party, a show where we

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have a few drinks, share a few laughs, take a dive into the unknown. I am your host Dave.

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And today I am joined by the most beautiful man I know, one of my best friends, Jonathan

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Bunting. What's going on, bud?

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Dave, you flatter me too much. Um, I, I was just about to say something and I have the

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active shooter thing going and literally right as you said, how are you? The, the, uh, action

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news started playing. John, how are you active shooter alert? Well, John, I guess that's

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the good, uh, you had a pretty interesting warning up in your area. I guess down here

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it's been fine. Uh, what's going on, John? Well, I woke up this morning and I went to

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go make breakfast and then my phone started blaring and so did my watch. So I figured

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that's gotta be like another ambler alert or something. But then I looked at it and

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it said, Hey, uh, shelter in place and lock all your doors because there is police activity

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in the area. And I'm like, I mean, okay. So of course I do what any normal person would

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do is put my shoes on and go outside and try to find said police activity. And right next

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to my apartment is where the St. Patty's day parade was going to happen. And everybody

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was excited for that. Didn't happen last year, got canceled because of the rain. And then

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this year gets canceled again because of shots fired. So the guy apparently has, uh, murdered

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three people and is on the loose in Trenton, New Jersey currently. Yeah. Possibly with

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hostages, possibly with hostages. Dude, that is the area of Pennsylvania that you live

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in is just like a, like, I don't, we were talking about this a little bit before the

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show started, but I don't understand how that small of an area can just be so fucking, it's

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like, uh, recently a man, uh, decapitated his father in that area and then put the video

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on YouTube. Uh, and then there wasn't there a guy just got arrested for January 6th, uh,

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insurrectionism. And then I think there was a, wasn't there like a, there was, there's

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a guy, uh, two streets down from where my dad lives. There was a guy who was out in

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this backyard just popping shotgun rounds off in the backyard screaming that the feds

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were going to get them. It's just normal red blooded Americans. The area is so fucked,

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dude. It's, I mean, we can have a whole different, like I said before the show, I could have

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a whole different podcast on this, but it's just really cause this area decided that it

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didn't want to have regulations for, you know, recovery houses. So any Tom, Dick and Harry

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can just buy a house, throw 10 people in it, say they're all in recovery, charge them all

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a hundred bucks a month in rent and yay. Yeah. Now, now they all come down to this area,

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but you know, it's a nice area. I've loved watching the steady decline of the place that

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I grew up in. Well, besides a narrowly almost maybe possibly getting shot today, are you

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doing good? You're good. Yeah. Doing great. Doing great on this lovely Saturday inside.

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Well Jonathan, you know, you know what this, well, I guess when this episode comes out,

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you know what it's going to be. It's going to be St. Patrick's day, bud. Oh yeah. Yeah.

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Yay. Wait, what's the 17th tomorrow? Yeah. Oh, so it's a Sunday and what are we doing?

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Thinking. So you mean every day? Well, you know what, Jonathan, I figured to get into

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the St. Patrick's day mood, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to do something

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a little different on this episode. We're not going to be talking about a cryptid. We're

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not going to be talking about conspiracies or aliens. It's going to be a little bit more

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fun than that. Okay. Cool. And it might actually be a subject that you, I'm not going to say

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you're like well versed in, but you're, you're like a fantasy guy. You could have a conversation

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about it. You're, you're a fantasy guy. You're a D and D guy. I know that you're also a big

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R and D guy. So today, Jonathan, are you ready to dive into what we're going to be talking

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about? I'm ready. Are you? You don't look ready. I'm very ready. Okay. All right. So

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Jonathan, Ireland, the country that brought us Guinness, Jameson whiskey and Liam Neeson

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will also being the country that indirectly and unfortunately gave us the dropkick Murphy's

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known as the Emerald isle. Ireland is a beautiful country with wildly beautiful landscapes like

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the giants causeway and the bun, Bulbin. I don't know if I pronounced that right. It's

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the, it's the sounds like a Pokemon. No, it's like this famous mountain. It looks like a

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table. Like it's like tall and flat. Okay. It's home to many a lively city like Dublin,

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Cork and Galway and boasts a rich literary history with famous playwrights and authors

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hailing from the country like Oscar Wilde, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. But Jonathan,

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Ireland isn't just home, like the home of pubs, cliffs, and that one rock. Everyone likes

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the Spiderman kiss. There's actually a hidden world under the green and mossy landscape,

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a realm of magic, mischief, and sometimes even death. Today, Jonathan, we're going to

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be diving into the fairy realm of Ireland to discuss the origins, the legends and the

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behaviors of some of the different types of fairies of which there are many. That's great.

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That's great. Yup. I am. I'm Walverson fairy culture and lore. I mean, I meant that as

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like you read a lot of fantasy novels and D and D they got there. No fairies in D and

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D. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. So fuck you, John. All right. Your wife, your wife, your wife

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did give me that fantasy smug book to read. Did you read it? I've been, I'm like halfway

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through. I get a little too hot under the collar and then I got to put it down for a

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little while. Is it really that's money? Not really. No. Okay. Cause everyone, cause it

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was wild is that she was talking about it. And of course, because all our technology

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is listening to us. Uh, I would get like Tik TOKs that were about that book. And it's all

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just people like talking about how fucking like, Oh God, that's a, it's a hot book.

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But, uh, all right, Jonathan, before we dive into all the different types of we folk out

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there, I want to talk about fairies in general. Now, do you, do you know anything about fairies?

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Um, they're tiny. They're usually, uh, for some reason, very attractive women that have

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wings. All right. Well, it's Jonathan. Fairies are deeply rooted in Irish tradition, beliefs

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and folklore. While many in Ireland may not wholeheartedly believe in fairies, there is

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a lot of superstition and most people just like, won't go out of their way to try and

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piss them off for reasons that we're probably going to get into. Uh, but there was a time

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when nine out of like 10 people in Ireland believed like full send. So Jonathan might

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be asking, how did the fairies come to be in Ireland? Is that what you're asking yourself?

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Yes. Okay. According to legend, the ancient Celts believed in the Tuatha de Danann, which

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means quote, the folk of the goddess Danu. Uh, they were, they were a supernatural race

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that some believe represent represented pre-Christian deities, I guess, uh, of Ireland and lived

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on the Island long before humans. Like they're like the OG Irish folk that is until the Milasani

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and milk. I don't know how to pronounce this word. Molessians. That's not the, you're about

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to say something else. Yeah. The Molessians, Molessians, uh, arrived and attacked the Tuatha

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and drove them underground. The Tuatha de Danann used their magical powers to become

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she better known today as fairies, little people, or we folk and established the fairy

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realm also known as the other world, which is metal is all hell. Not that, not that place

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on grand Avenue, not the place. No, which I still need to go to. Yeah. Now the fairy

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realm or other world is a place just beyond, but parallel to our own. It's said to be a

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beautiful, ethereal world filled with magical beings and just all around. Seems like a pretty

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chill place. Enterances to the other world are all around Ireland caves such as the Awanaga

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cave in Ross Roskerman is said to be one, a neolithic tombs, stone circles, standing stones,

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burrows, tree hollows. All of these are said to be portals to the realm of the Faye. A

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lone Hawthorne tree are often referred to as fairy trees. There's also fairy forts,

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which are the remains of iron age ring forts. And there's like a billion of them all over

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the country. Uh, farmers and landowners will actually not like, we'll actually mow around

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them as to not piss off the fairies because they will make your life a living hell if

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you do. Um, now Jonathan, when I asked you what you know about fairies, the first thing

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you said was basically that it was like a Tinkerbell kind of thing or some sort of Disney

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ass like animated thing. Um, now are there, uh, there's, there's no fairies in D and D

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or like the Faye is not a thing. I feel like they are. Yeah, they are. They are a thing.

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Now I am not well versed enough in them because I don't particularly, I don't know. I'm not

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playing a fairy when I play. Cause you're such a big strong man, Jonathan. I'm trying

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to be a big old brute, don't I? No. You sound so defeated. I'm always play, I always, I

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always play a wizard. I'm too, nevermind. Okay. Well, in reality, uh, it's nothing like

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that. Uh, fairies come in all shapes, sizes, different levels of nightmarish. Uh, now John,

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are you ready to dive into what some of these fairies are and how awesome they are? I've

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never wanted anything more in my life. I feel like you're lying to me, but it's fine. It's

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all for the sake of radio. First up, we got the Pooka, uh, considered a solitary type

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of fairy. The Pooka is a shape shifting prankster that transforms into variety of animals, but

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is usually seen as a black horse with fiery eyes. And while it does like to cause mischief

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to humans, it does help out, uh, like the, it does help out. I don't know how to word

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this. It's not a shit head. It will help protect animals and assist lost travelers to find

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their way home. I don't know why that was so hard for me to fucking get out. Now, next

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up, Jonathan, we got the, and I don't know, I think it's pronounced the Duluth, the Dullahan.

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We'll go with Dullahan. That sounds right. Uh, this thing is a fucking nightmare. Uh,

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it's basically like the headless horseman of sleepy hollow, but like just worse in every

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way. Uh, considered a dark fairy. It is associated with death and darkness. According to legend,

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the Dullahan or quote unquote dark man is a harbinger of death and is depicted as a

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headless rider that holds its own decapitate decapitated and decaying head as a lantern.

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Uh, I'm all about this. It lights, it lights its way with the hellish hellfire that emits

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from its eyes. He has a whip. The whip is made from a human spine that it ripped out

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of a corpse and both his cloak and horse are said to be darker than the darkness itself.

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Now, for that's the coolest thing I've ever heard, right? It's fucking metal and shit,

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dude. Yeah. Now for some, they may get a warning that death itself, the Dullahan is coming

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for them, uh, courtesy of the next fairy we're going to be talking about. And that is one

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that you're probably very familiar with. And that is the Banshee. You're familiar with

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the Banshee, right? Yeah. All right. No Banshees. Now, while the Dullahan does the ripping in

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the Terran and is just death incarnate, the Banshee is like an early warning system basically

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for your impending doom. Uh, in unlike the Dullahan who will kill just pretty much anyone

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it comes across the Banshee or quote, woman of the fairy mound is a female spirit who

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heralds the death of a family member by unleashing an unearthly whale that is filled with such

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sorrow that its cry has been described as quote mournful beyond all other sounds on

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earth. Jesus. Now descriptions of the Banshee differ by region. Some describe her with long

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streaming hair that she continuously combs. Uh, she may be wearing a gray cloak and green

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dress. Her eyes, bloodshot from continuously crying. She's also been described as having

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red hair and wearing a white dress with like a ghostly complexion. Some say she's average

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height. Others say she's between one and four feet tall. So could, so really could be anything.

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Some say she appears as an old woman. Well, others say she assumes the form of a quote

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sweet swinging virgin of the family who died young end quote, and has now been tasked to

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be the bearer of bad news for her living kin. But no matter what she appears as it's not

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good. Like you do not want to hear this thing coming because it could possibly just means

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either certain death for you, a loved one. And I for one do not want the headless horseman

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man showing up and just like beating me to death with a human spine. Like that's no,

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honestly, that honestly would probably be a good way to go though. Just being beaten

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to death by a man. But it's like you said, it's metal as fuck. I like to think so. I

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think so. So when I was doing the research for this episode, I didn't, I always assumed

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like I did have that preconceived notion of like fairies being like, I knew they were

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a bit mischievous and I knew that they were like little, you know, just, just a little

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guy. Just a little guy. Yeah. This is a little guy doing pranks. Little scamps. Yeah. Scamps.

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I didn't realize that like fairies, and I'm not going to say it's like a, like an old,

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like a broad overall term to describe a lot of things, but I didn't think it was going

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to be fucking a headless horseman and the Banshee were considered fairies. You know

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what I mean? Like, yeah, yeah. I only know, I only know very little about like, if you're

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going to talk about like the Faye world, but from what I know is that it's everything is

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like extremely exaggerated. Every things that aren't supposed to, you know, you ever see

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the movie annihilation? Yeah. Yeah. It's like we're things that aren't supposed to kind

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of go together, go together and make some weird amalgamation or anything. Like that's

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kind of what, at least what I'm described as have been described as the Faye realm, like

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trees that are like all weird and have like limbs and shit growing off them. Yeah. But

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everybody's like, it's all it, but everybody's having a good time. You know? Yeah. Cause

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that's their normal world. Cause that means that like the Banshee, the fucking Pooka,

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the changelings, all those things, like when they're, when they're in the fairy realm,

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they're all living in harmony. They're all vibing just a chill fucking place. But as

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soon as they're in our world, they're all just nightmarish hell creatures that want

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to just ruin your day. Exactly. All right, John. So the headless fairies like Billy down

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the, down the street in the Faye realm, stepping on your front porch to get your paper. Hey,

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what's going on? Yeah. Arias again, that fucking horse shitting all over my front lawn. You

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know, he seems like the kind of guy that would cut down limbs from a tree that's not on his

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property. Yeah. That's kind of fun. It was that that arm was hanging over a little too

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far, a little too far of my property line. It was hanging over my horse and it's, it's

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clearly a dead tree. If it falls on my horse, the insurance isn't going to cover it. It's

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an act of nature. I mean, exactly. All right, Jonathan. Well, the last fairy type we're

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going to be discussing today is an Irish classic. All right. We all know them. We all love them.

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And that is the leprechauns. What'd you say? What did you say? You said the car bomb? So

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the car bomb. No, but speaking of which, since it is St. Patrick's Day tomorrow, I did decide

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I'm going to drink Guinness all day today. And I was really hungry before recording this,

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but I had one Guinness and it's like eating a loaf of bread, dude. I'm so full. Dude, I

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only ever drink Guinness when I, when car bombs are involved. I don't have, like if

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I got to chug it real fast. Cause I can't, I can't like, well, no, not that I can't,

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but like if I'm going to have a Guinness, it's gotta be like a half and half or like

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a black and white or something like half Guinness, half Allagash. It's pretty good. The Allagash

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like really cuts through the Guinness pretty well. I love Guinness. It's like drinking

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soup. It's like drinking a stew. No, I hate that. I hate that. Well, John, I don't want

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to chew my beer. It's cause you're uncultured. All right. Now, Jonathan, the leprechauns,

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what do you know about leprechauns? That's true. That was not an answer to my question.

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They're really ugly. That they're really ugly and made a bunch of movies about them. True.

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Now pretty much, like you said, the leprechauns are kind of ugly. Uh, the ones that we've

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come to know they're, they're, they're short, redheaded little dudes dressed in all green

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and hoarding gold. Um, they're pretty much like a staple of like St. Patrick's day attire

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and children's cereal mascots, but yeah, the lucky charms guy. Yeah. There's a lot more

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to these little guys than you would think. Uh, for instance, leprechauns are always shown

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to be wearing green, uh, with their fancy waistcoats and top hats. But in reality they

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wore mostly red. And the reason for that, according to William Butler Yeats, uh, is

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because leprechauns are solitary fairies and solitary fairies were red. Well, the more

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social of like this more social fairies, they were green or other colors. Honestly, that

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makes perfect sense. Red stay away from me. Green. Let's party. I honestly did not think

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about that until you just said it, but that is pretty good. Uh, but also, uh, what leprechauns

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wear look like and act is, well not act, but what they, what they wear and look like is

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entirely dependent on what part of Island you're in. Uh, because there are actually

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four different types of leprechaun. Are you ready to, you ready to learn about the four

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different types of leprechauns? You're not ready. The red ones, the blue ones, the green

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ones and the purple. Jonathan, you agreed to come on and you sound like exacerbated.

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This is funny. Oh wait, there's more. There's more leprechauns. Uh, in the Northern areas

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of Ireland, we've got the low green man and he's sporting a red coat and white pants.

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Kinda looks like a, uh, like a revolutionary war soldier, like a British soldier. Uh, he's

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also got a pointy hat with a big old brim on it. Uh, next is the, uh, lor, lor, loriga

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dawn, the loriga dawn. I got it. Okay. Uh, he can be found in the area of Tipperary or

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Tipperary and he is also, he, he's donning a fancy little red jacket as well as a jockey

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cap and just for added flare, he's got a little sword that he uses as a magic wand. Uh, next

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we've got a chubby little guy known as the lorica on, uh, just like an absolute slob

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of a leprechaun. He's a portly little fella, uh, sports a red coat, uh, that has seven

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rows of buttons, but never actually has it buttoned in every depiction I've seen. He's

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not wearing an undershirt, so it's just like it's man tits and big old belly just flopping

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out. And he also wears a helmet that is several sizes too big for him, just sloshing around

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on top of his head. So kind of relatable in a way. Sounds like the Robert Baratheon of

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leprechauns. Yes, no, that is yes. It is Robert Baratheon on his death bed. Just fucking gut

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out. Next. Uh, and finally we got the, uh, cloricon, my favorite. He's found in Monaghan.

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He's a fancy little boy. He's got a posh red dress coat that he wears over a green vest

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with the trademark white pants, black stockings and shiny black shoes. He wears a hat that

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basically looks like a dunce cap, but like a fancy dunce cap. Uh, it's, it's just slightly

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a jar on top of his head. And the reason why is because he likes going to the different

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pubs and taverns and just getting absolutely fucking shit house. Fuck. Yeah. Let's go party

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with this guy. No, the differences in all the types of leprechauns pretty much stops

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there at their attire because when it comes to their personalities and behaviors, they

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prefer to be alone and spend a majority of their time mending or making shoes. I did

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not know this about leprechauns, but apparently they're cobblers. Um, nice. Now as to why

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they like being alone. One reason given was that they are voluntary bachelors and decided

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to self exile themselves. So that way they could just be left the fuck alone. Not like

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an, not like an incel type of way, because that's involuntary. This is yeah. Yeah.

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Mech beards. Well, they do kind of always show. Now leprechauns are also wildly territorial

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and hide their entrances to their homes so that no snooping humans can disturb them.

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But if a person does stumble upon the home of a leprechaun, they will very quickly come

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to regret it because they will not hesitate to fuck your world up. They will attack you.

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No questions asked. The leprechauns know their standard grand loss. Well, the other thing

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is if a leprechaun isn't up for fighting you, it will do one thing and that is make a mental

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note of who you are and then proceed to fuck with you for the rest of your life. Pretty

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much making every moment a waking hell for you. Uh, it'll do things like move or throw

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your furniture, turn the heat up on your stove while you're cooking to burn all your food,

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throw your baby, take your dog out on a ride and ride it like a horse, just normal rascal

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type stuff. Take your dog out on a ride, but throw your

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baby. You like how I sandwich that in there?

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Yeah. Just shot putting your baby across the...

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Now, if you really make them mad, and I'm talking like John Wick after his dog was killed

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mad, they will just straight up steal your baby and then replace it with a fairy lookalike

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called a changeling. What's even more fucked up is that I could not find any mention of

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what they do with your real baby. It's the same thing. Sorry for the Game of Thrones

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references, but it's the same thing. Like when the White Walker took the baby, the Night

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King took that one baby and then made its eyes blue and turned it into a White Walker

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and then you never heard anything about it ever again.

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What are they doing with these babies? What are they doing with all these babies?

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What happens to the changeling baby? You just wake up and your kids... I think it'd be cool

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as hell. My baby's got super powers.

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True. It did not say whether or not... See, the thing about changelings though, I don't

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know if the changeling is like...

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Like a full ass adult?

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Well, I don't know how fairies work. I don't know if fairies are born or if they're just

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like up here. So I don't know if it's like a 45 year old man pretending to be your baby.

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It's like every anime where it's like I died and then become a changeling baby. I don't

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know how it works. But Jonathan, even with all this newfound... Are you looking it up

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right now?

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Yes.

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All right. Well, while you do that, I'm going to continue. So pay attention. Now, Jonathan,

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even with all this newfound knowledge, there are things that pulp culture has gotten right

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about leprechauns. Like if you catch a leprechaun, you will be handsomely rewarded. Some of these

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rewards include things like wishes, his pot of gold, or if he's out and about and you

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happen to just get him in a fucking headlock, he'll give you some of the gold from his personal

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stash. Now, the thing is to be wary of is that even though... Excuse me, the Guinness

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coming back up. Even though you caught him, again, leprechauns are notoriously wily and

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they will try to escape and they will do this in several different ways. One is they will

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full on just start fucking attacking you. And they're pretty... What's the word I'm

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looking for? Spry. Like they will fuck you up. The other thing too is that they will

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try to distract you. So they'll give you like a pouch of gold and the gold in there is enchanted.

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So while you're counting your... So he'll dump out this pouch of gold in front of you

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and while you're counting it, he'll put the pouch back in his pocket. Now they're enchanted.

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So what that means is that after a while, they will go from your table back into the

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pouch in his pocket. So it's basically trying to fuck you over. And there's a lot more to

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like leprechaun folklore and there's a lot more to all these different types of fairy

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folklore actually. This was a very truncated and brief look at all of this stuff. And I

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hope it's all accurate. There was a lot of different stories and a lot of conflicting

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information so I had to pick and choose which ones I really liked. But anyways, there you

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have it. This is kind of a brief, hopefully accurate account of some of the origins, behaviors

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and legends of the Irish fairies. I don't know, but it's pretty good. I learned a lot

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today. Did you? Yeah. I hammered through that. I talked so fast. I tried to keep it under

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a half hour. If I had talked normally, this would have been easily an hour long episode.

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That's fine. That's fine. I'm interested enough that I've, uh, that now I'm researching

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fae and how they're born. And what do we got? Well, I did find, so I did find probably from

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the most reliable resource on the internet, Tumblr. Tumblr says the way fae reproduce

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depends on the type of fae species they are. Some are more corporeal than others and so,

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and so are their reproductive means. Well, the thing is they can have sex with humans

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and bear offspring depending on the type of species they are. All right. Now, Jonathan,

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hold on real quick. Now, is this what, what is this like fantasy fae or is this Irish

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fae? Cause I feel like Irish folklore, like fairies and just like normal face shit might

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be a little different. I don't think this is no, cause it does. I don't know. It's just

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it's otherly creatures. So go follow otherly creatures on Tumblr. Yeah. This is not your

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normal faerie blog. It says, so I'm sure it's a hundred percent whatever constitutes your

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normal faerie blog. Well, if it makes you feel any better, I got a lot of this information

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from a website called, uh, Irish wedding rings.com or something. Nice. And John Solo, John Solo's

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really good. He did a lot of, he did a lot of the heavy lifting for me. Well, I will

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say, the only last thing I will say is someone who posted this has probably the best username

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I've ever seen in my life. Oh God. Accio sleep deprivation. Okay. Oh God. Pretty good. Yeah.

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All right, John. So, so where are you at? How are you feeling about the fae? You know,

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like is it, I'm feeling pretty good. I'm feeling like I want to do a little bit more research

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on this Saturday afternoon and really immerse myself into the world of fairies and leprechauns.

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That's what I'm saying. Like there was so much that I could not put into this. Like

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each one of these fairies quote unquote could like constitute a full episode. And I might

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do that because I feel like, first of all, the, uh, headless horseman guy deserves a

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full episode because I feel like there's a lot more there because sometimes apparently

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he's not just a headless horseman. He is a headless carriageman and he has six black

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horses pulling his carriage and he is consistently accompanied by a Banshee who like trails ahead

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of him and screams the entire time. So that way you fucking know he's coming and then

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he gets to town and just fucks your shit up. And apparently he mostly is always seen during

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certain times of year and festive like festivals. Like he just waits for people to gather and

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then it's just like, now's my time and just fuck shit up. Like it's pretty good. It's

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wild. Also, I learned a new word today called keening. Didn't know what that meant. Apparently

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the Banshee either screams, shrieks, howls, cries, or keens. And keens just means that

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it just sobs. Never heard of that term before for sobbing. And sometimes, uh, it can only,

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it can only keen while it's brushing its hair. That's another thing that I learned. That's

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ew. Dude, the world of the fairies is fucked up and weird and awesome. There's a bunch

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that I didn't cover. I didn't cover the changelings. We didn't go over changelings. No, we didn't.

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There's a lot. Cause I, I w I want to know if the parents who get the baby swap, what

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they do with the changelings or to changelings just kill them. I don't know. Like what's

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the point of swapping the baby? Why wouldn't you just kill the parents? Like, I don't know

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if you have to kill the baby to become a changelink, like to change into the thing. Do you have

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to kill it? I don't know. I didn't look into it. I, we don't know. We'll never know. All

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right, Jonathan, let's, let's end this episode. Let's do it. All right, Dave. It's been a

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pleasure. It's been a pleasure. Uh, thanks everyone for listening. I hope you enjoyed

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this. If any of the information I gave was wrong or inaccurate, keep it to yourself.

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I don't want to know. I like to live in my own fantasy world. So, uh, no, but for real,

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if anything I said was wrong, let me know. You can email me at cryptococktail at gmail.com.

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You can follow me on Instagram at cryptococktail. Follow me on TikTok at cryptococktail party.

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You can donate to the patreons $5 a month. Uh, you won't get anything in return because

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I'm lazy as fuck. We also got a discord server that I don't ever use because it got lonely

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and I was talking to myself. So if you want to join the discord, there's a link in my

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Instagram bio. And besides that, I think that's all. Uh, Jonathan, would you like to say goodbye

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to the audience? Goodbye audience. It has been a pleasure as always.