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.