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Wizard’s Home.

Many visitors came to Fairyland in the last year or two. There were Leprechauns, Imps, Fairies, Pixies, Bogeys and many more. Most only came to visit but some stayed on in Fairyland and built for themselves new homes. The Leprechauns were kept busy for one whole year building the new homes. Many were the materials used for building purposes. Wood was the most popular and many an old oak tree was chopped down for making new houses.

One of the oaks was the home of a very powerful Wizard who was away studying advanced magic in a land far across the seas. Some Leprechauns and a couple of beavers that helped them chopped down the tree. It was a most terrible mistake for them to make and as soon as the Leprechauns realised what they had done they left Fairyland and went back home to Ireland where they made shoes and other leather goods for the rest of their long, long lives.

One year later the Wizard returned to what had been his home and found just the remains of a large hole in the ground where the old oak tree had previously stood. He was very angry and worked a magic spell. Every new house with the tiniest piece of his old oak tree built into it would never be warm in wintertime. This was a terrible spell and the Little Folk asked the Fairy Queen Feeana for her help. The Queen went to the Wizard and offered to magic him a new tree one with all possible comforts if he would take off the spell that he had cast.

The Wizard at first refused to take the spell away from Fairyland but then he had an idea and told the Fairy Queen Feeana what his new scheme was. The Leprechauns that had chopped down his tree would only be able to come back to Fairyland if they each agreed to cut wood for a whole years supply for the Wizard. As for the Beavers their punishment was that they could only build their watery homes in water that freezes in winter so that they too would be more careful in future about chopping down trees without first making sure that they were not somebody’s home.

The Wizard is still waiting for his firewood; as you perhaps know not one of the Leprechauns ever went back to Fairyland and as for the beavers they were happy when the surface of the water froze over it meant they could have great fun sliding across the ice. You if you are lucky might see the beavers playing on the ice in wintertime. They are not worried about the Wizards magic at all.