A Color No One Chose - The Green Man in the Walls

On March 17th, you are expected to wear green. Not invited. Expected. But in the oldest folklore of the island this holiday claims to celebrate, green was the one color you were warned never to wear. It was the fairy color. The color of the Otherworld. Wearing it was trespass, an invitation to be taken by beings who were older than Christianity and indifferent to its authority. So how did a color of danger become a color of celebration? T

onight we trace the full arc. The fairy prohibition documented in centuries of Irish folklore. The revelation that...