By Tim Binnall
An Irish farmer beset with bad luck for the last ten years believes that his misfortunes were caused by an ancient standing stone which was knocked over on his property and, as such, he enlisted a pair of druids to help him correct the problem. According to a local media report, Donal Bohane has continuously seen his fields flooded and his cattle stricken with illness over the last decade. At his wit's end over the ongoing difficulties, the farmer wondered what could have sparked the proverbial dark cloud hanging over his farm and recalled a fateful day in which one of his bulls toppled a standing stone on the property.
"I looked back and everything traces back to that incident about 10 years ago," Bohane mused. The Bronze Age stone had been used as a property marker and is believed to have likely had some kind of religious or spiritual significance in the distant past. Desperate to make things right with whatever forces were disturbed by the downed relic, Bohane turned to a folklore professor for advice and she put him in touch with druids Jan and Karren Tetteroo, who ventured out to his farm to investigate the matter.
The duo determined that the standing stone had probably fallen across a 'faerie road' and, in turn, upset the elemental beings coexisting with Bohane on the property. While that explanation may sound fantastic to some, the pair pointed to numerous instances where residences constructed on similar 'magical' spots caused all manner of misfortune until ultimately being razed in response. As such, the druids brought in a digger which was used to set the stone back in its proper place and they then performed a series of rituals, of the course of two hours, to "clear the spirit road or energy line of any blockage and to put an end to the misfortune cast upon the cattle using the field."