‘I was on a bus on the way home from work when I found myself unable to get up for my stop. The feeling of paralysis ended as I passed my stop and we were going past the field behind my house. I got off in the next village and walked back past the field. As I walked past a thorn tree, I saw something come out from behind the tree and start walking behind me. Whenever I turned, it disappeared, but it kept following me along a path at the edge of the field and all the way to my back gate. I could see it in my peripheral vision and it was a classic gnome type except for the hat, which was what looked like a flat cap made from dark brown leather. He was around two feet high and his body and clothing were all dark brown and leathery. I saw him many times after that and was only convinced of his reality when I saw him go over to our cat and stroke him and the cat responded exactly as if a person had stroked him. Since then, I have seen many others, strange, bark-skinned figures who came out of trees to watch an Easter Sunrise service on ***, a radiant figure by a stream, a classic green man (which until that encounter, I had considered a mere metaphor) and many more. I do not consider myself psychic, but I am a druid and spend a lot of my time in nature and live my life with respect for it.’ ‘Classic gnome type with flat leather cap.’
§106
Oxfordshire, England
1990s
Female: Age 21-30
regular supernatural experiences
on a country road
3 pm-6 pm
two to ten minutes
on my own
you were undertaking a repetitive task (e.g. picking blackberries)
no fairy mood reported
a sense that the experience was a display put on specially for you, unusually vivid memories of the experience, a sense that the experience marked a turning point in your life