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* The Irish tale of [[wikipedia:Oisín|Oisin]] is like this. He is the son of the Irish hero [[Awesome Mc Cool Name Finn Mc Cool]] and he falls in love with a fairy, who takes him away to Tir na nÓg where each year inside lasts a century outside. When he decides to return to Ireland after three years he is given a horse and told not to touch the ground. 300 years have passed in Ireland and it is now a Christian country. He sees a man trying to lift a stone to build a road and offers to help but he falls of the horse and is transformed into an elderly man. In some versions of the tale he meets St Patrick before dying.
* This is why King Herla of ''[[The Wild Hunt]]'' can't get off his horse. He spent a few centuries at a fairy wedding party. As soon as he gets off of his horse (given to him by the fairies) and sets foot back on the earth of the mortal world, time will catch up and he'll age to death in a matter of seconds.
* Iðunn is the goddess of apples and youth in [[Norse Mythology]]; eating her apples is what keeps the gods young. When she is kidnapped by Þjazi (as recounted in the ''Skáldskaparmál''), the gods become old and grey, apparently fast enough that they quickly notice that Iðunn is missing.
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