Has anyone seen fairies?
 

Hello,
I had an interesting experience the other day while I was walking in the park. I like to go there as it's hidden and not many people know about it. So, while I was enjoying the good weather and the beautiful scenery I saw a twinkling green light near a tall and old pine tree. There one moment, gone the next disappearing in the leaves. Have you had any similar experience? :smile:

What a very lovely thing to see! I've had two experiences, both many years ago now when I was on holiday in Cornwall which is where I live now.

The first was on a walk on the moors at Zennor in the far west, rural and very wild part of the county. Alongside the path was a small stream and both my friend and I saw something long, slender and silvery gold shoot out of the stream - but didn't splash back into it. It was around a foot long. We went over to see if it was a fish but thought the stream was too shallow for fish to live in, barely an inch or two deep. We began to walk away wondering what we had seen and at that moment saw another which again shot out of the water but didn't fall back into it. It was as quick as a flash and we couldn't see any features - just the sparkling colour and general elongated shape. I guess it was water spirits and have never forgotten seeing them.

The other experience was in a very old cottage near Tintagel in Cornwall. One evening I went into the kitchen and very plainly saw a gnome standing in the middle of the room - just like the ones you see as garden ornaments. It saw me too and seemed frightened, putting up it's hands as if in self defense, then disappeared. I promise you I hadn't been drinking and wasn't dreaming! It was so brief, just seconds, but I still recall what it looked like to this day - about 18 inches high and dressed in natural colours, browns and greens. I often drive past that cottage and say a mental hello to the gnome!

It would be great to hear of anyone else experiences of seeing the fairy folk.

Hello Cassy, it's delightful to learn about your experiences. I have always been captivated by these beings :)

Thanks - they are experiences I've never forgotten!

I worked with the Faery a lot some 15 years ago, but never saw one. That's because I always ask to not see anything. I'm not keen on hearing things either. Had too much of both as a child
So far Spirit has always respected that.


I do always wonder which being people mean when they speak of Faeries?
For me it's the ones from Avalon, connected to the hawthorn tree, and ash.
But there are also flower fairies. These are way different and small. Kind of like the Tinkerbell version, hihi.
Maybe these are called Fay?
I have a friend who swears she can see these flower fairies.

This has put me in mind of the famous story of the "Cottingley fairies" in Cottingley west Yorkshire
( England). Two young girls in 1917 drew and made little fairies and put them at the bottom of the garden and took lots of photographs of themselves with the fairies.
It completely fooled the world for decades.
Even photograph experts said the photos were genuine images.
Eventually , in 1983, one of the girls ( by now an elderly woman ) confessed to the hoax.

Well, no.
But as I have said before here...camping in England a bit west of London...
in the wee hours with the mist over the meadows...there was NO doubt ...that little people ..
I'll say Leprechauns..I don't want to insult them with my ignorance...but they came out of the forest all over the place!
It was so adorable!
Don't ask me what I felt in Rome!

You don't have to 'see' things to know they are their, just sayin.

Yes that's true MissH . Even when they are hiding you know they are there.
I don't think it really matters what they call themselves , they have multiple names sometimes , but we always just "sense" them.

Yes it's difficult to put a name to what you have seen - after I wrote my post about seeing the gnome I wished I hadn't called him that because I don't actually know what the little being was, but it looked remarkably like what we call gnomes.

It's making me think it was more likely to have been a pixie.

Pixies are wee, magical creatures who throw merry parties and shower blessings across the English countryside, especially in Devon and Cornwall. They are beloved for their childlike appearance and bubbly spirits, even though they do play the occasional prank on travelers.

Thanks MissH.
That's what I was thinking of .
Thats not to say there are No gnomes of course.

I have a fairy garden in my back yard but the place I sense them more is in the woods near my house


Namaste

Hello

Not Fairies but I did see something from the same realms once.

I saw a Troll. I was coming around the corner to the shops and there was a man yelling not to go around there. He was not out of his mental state but was terrified at what he was seeing ! He looked at me goes "you will be able to SEE it, where others don't." I was like OK what ever and around the corner I went. To see this creature Troll that was 6 foot tall at least standing at the trash can picking at his dirty nails. He looked right at me and grinned and then went on picking at his nails. No one passing seemed to make any note of it being there. Just kept going about what they were up to.

That fellow that was yelling found me in the shop goes to me "you say it" I was like yes I think so a Troll ? Or something like that, he was like YES and the smell I was like yes like rotting flesh.

Never seen anything like it again. I was told they are in the same realms as Fairies and Nymphs.

Lynn

If you make a little house for them will they come?

No.... But the little house looks pretty ..LOL..
Only joking !!!!

I absolutely LOVE little fairy gardens .

Yes perhaps. I tend to think pixies are slender, whereas gnomes are chubbier ... but who knows!

Hi... You are probably right.
I was only thinking that pixies are famous in Cornwall.
They are in in every single shop you go in as souvenirs .
But of course this is not to say that other little beings are not evident in Cornwall.

Oh but I just LOVE Cornwall.
It's one of the most beautiful places in England.
I have visited and my son and family are regular visitors and my Uncle lives there.
It's just gorgeous.