EXTRA **** "Rathlin Fairy Tale" by Liz Weir
On today's Apple Seed Extra, a story called "Rathlin Fairy Tale" told by Liz Weir, the Irish storyteller who brings to life the myth of the hawthorn Tree—better known in Ireland as fairy thorns. When the boy of a young mother is stolen by the fairies of a hawthorn tree, he’s saved by a peculiar and perhaps lucky connection to the real world.