But sometimes, like the legends about the Tuatha De Danann, the legends about the otherworld were taken literally and most seriously by some early Irish-Christian saints.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
After about nine weeks they came to a land fairer than any land they had ever beheld-it was the Happy otherworld.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
They enter the otherworld in a trance state, and on waking are in Erin again, spiritually enriched.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz