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I was playing on the nets, just googleing random things when I came across "Celtic Encyclopedia in One Volume", I'm not sure who published it or wrote it but this one little excerpt I typed below reminded me of Dr. Who. He always wanted to be ginger. :D
"As a rule this patient is a captive bride, and one can presume that it is so in Lady Wilde's story of THE DOCTOR AND THE FAIRY PRINCESS. In the Irish tales there are many examples of a 'red-haired man' who intervenes to rescue people enticed into FairyLand, and who is supposed to be a mortal captive there. One example is perhaps enough, drawn from Lady Wilde's ANCIENT LEGENDS OF IRELAND, VOL.I. It is about a girl who was enticed into a fairy dance, and after dancing with the prince, she was led down to a gorgeous banquet; She took the golden cup the prince handed to her, and raised it to her lips to drink. Just then a man passed close to her, and whispered, "Eat no food, and drink no wine, or you will never reach your home again." So she laid down the cup, and refused to drink. On this they were angry, and a great noise arose, and a fierce, dark man stood up, and said '"Whoever comes to us must drink with us." and he seized her arm, and held the wine to her lips, so that she almost died of fright. But at that moment a red-haired main came up, and he took her by the hand and led her out. "You are safe for this time," he said. "Take this herb, and hold it in your hand till you reach home, and no one can harm you" And he gave her a branch of the plant called Athair-Luis (The ground ivy). This she took, and fled away along the sward in the dark night; but all the time she heard footsteps behind her in pursuit. At last she reached home and barred the door, and went to be, when a great clamor arose outside, and voices were heard crying to her "The power we have over you is gone through the magic of the herb; but wait - when you dance again to the music on the hill, you will stay with us for evermore, and none shall hinder." However, she kept the magic branch safely, and the fairies never troubled her more; but it was long and long before the sound of fairy music left her ears which she had danced to that November night on the hillside with her fairy lover."