So the shelves remained packed with gaudy shrine paraphernalia, from portraits of Christ with a halo of flashing green, yellow and blue fairy lights, to depictions of the Last Supper illuminated with almost psychedelic colours.

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It has blue and red fairy lights around the edge and projects holographic figures onto its surface.

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For an unforgettable experience, take a night walk to the arched cave and waterfall at Natural Bridge under the western ramparts of the Springbrook plateau, which is alight with fairy-like blue-green lights given off by the millions of bioluminescent glow worms that line the cave roof and the steep earth banks along the rainforest path.

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Thus, the common idea that the Web is crammed full of videos that become serendipitously popular out of the blue turns out to be something of a fairy tale.

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On the child's whim, Eve follows different licence plates, until out of the blue she is drawn by a whim of her own, a memory from childhood of a fairy-tale picture done in coloured broken glass stuck in a whitewashed wall.

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