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"etymology_text": "The idea of a ring where fairies danced was a traditional explanation for the fungal phenomenon before it was understood.",
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"text": "1914, \"Rhys at the Fairy Dance\" in Maud Keary, Enchanted Tulips and Other Verses for Children, Macmillan and Company, page 102,\nThough many a year has passed away, / None have seen Rhys since that day! / Does he dance and does he sing / For ever in a Fairy Ring?"
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"text": "Welsh folklore also reveals few references to fairy rings but there is a fine example found in the legend \"Rhys at the Fairy Dance\" (collected in 1827) in which Rhys is lost but found again when several people venture to a nearby fairy ring.",
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"ref": "1821, Edward Polehampton, chapter VIII, in The Gallery of Nature and Art: Or, A Tour Through Creation and Science, volume 5, page 316",
"text": "This curious phenomenon has been differently accounted for. The following is Mr. Nicholson's description and explanation: \"the appearance in the grass, says he, commonly called Fairy Rings, is well known. It consists either of a ring of grass of more luxuriant vegetation than the rest, or a kind of circular path in which the vegetation is more defective than elsewhere. It appears to be pretty well ascertained that the latter state precedes the former. […]",
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"ref": "1884, The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Home Farmer, Volume 7, 3rd Series, July—December, 1883, page 213",
"text": "The best known Fungus occupant of fairy rings is the Fairy Ring Agaric or Champignon, Marasmius oreades, termed in the older botanical textbooks Agaricus oreades.",
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"ref": "2012, Juliana Regina Delion, Heart Attack!: Shadows on the Eve of Tomorrow, Xlibris Corporation, page 18",
"text": "So writing it down and reading it later, I realized somehow my subconscious was giving me a warning of things to come. In the dream I woke up at the height of the full moon in my garden. I didn't realize that in my drunken stupor I had fallen asleep amidst a fairy ring. A fairy ring is a bunch of mushrooms growing in a circle. I often see them growing on lawns. Legend has it that if one gets caught in this circle on a full moon, the fairies will take him or her captive and do as they please.",
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},
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