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hungry grass
In Irish mythology, hungry grass ((アイルランド語:féar gortach); also known as fairy grass) is a patch of cursed grass. Anyone walking on it was doomed to perpetual and insatiable hunger.
Harvey suggests that the hungry grass is cursed by the proximity of an unshriven corpse (the fear gorta).〔Harvey, Steenie. (Twilight places: Ireland's enduring fairy lore ). ''World and I'', March 1998, v13 n3.〕 William Carleton's stories suggest that faeries plant the hungry grass.〔Carleton, William. ''(Phelim O'toole's Courtship and Other Stories )''〕 According to Harvey this myth may relate to beliefs formed in the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s.〔 In Margaret McDougall's letters the phrase "hungry grass" is - by analogy to the myth - used to describe hunger pains.〔McDougall, Margaret. ''(The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland )''〕
An alternative version of the hungry grass story relates that anyone walking through it is struck by temporary hunger; to safely cross through one must carry a bit of food to eat along the way (such as a sandwich or several crackers), and some beer.
==See also==
* Hungry ghost
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