Mind the Fairies

The London Times reports on a wee construction contretemps regarding the fair folk:

Marcus Salter, head of Genesis Properties, estimates that the small colony of fairies believed to live beneath a rock in St Fillans, Perthshire, has cost him £15,000. His first notice of the residential sensibilities of the netherworld came as his diggers moved on to a site on the outskirts of the village, which crowns the easterly shore of Loch Earn.

He said: “A neighbour came over shouting, ‘Don’t move that rock. You’ll kill the fairies’.”

The entire project had to be redesigned to accommodate the fairies' supposed living arrangements and the unwillingness of the local populace to disturb large rocks or standing stones whether there are fairies under them or not. H/t Exploding Aardvark