Evans Wentz was told by an informant, Patrick Waters, who was enumerating the different types of fairies, that the Lunantishee are the tribe that guards the blackthorn bushes, and will allow not a stick to be cut on 11 November (originally All Hallows Day) or on II May (originally May Day). If you cut blackthorn on those days, some misfortune will befall you. Blackthorn is one of the fairy trees.

[Motif: F441.2]