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‘I was an exchange student from *** University… [in the US] studying at *** College in ***. I was a distance runner and was invited by a fellow student, X, to her home in ***. Another student, Y, accompanied us. We were training for a cross country meet and went on a training run through *** on a cool February day in 1979. While running through a park in an open field, my friend, X, abruptly stopped running and started laughing. I was a bit annoyed with the sudden stop but waited for her to continue. She said, ‘This is a place called Tingle-Dingle. Now don’t laugh, because if you do the fairies will hit you in the head with an acorn.’ She proceeded to giggle. Y and I didn’t laugh because we were too stunned by what she just said, but a second later, out of the clear blue sky, X got bonked in the head with an acorn! Everyone was shocked and we tore out of there. We must have been at least three hundred yards from the nearest tree. Later, on I felt that perhaps we were being pranked. X seemed genuinely rattled when she told her husband about the incident. This experience was a life changer and opened up a whole new world to me. What I thought were just quaint childhood stories turned into other experiences back home in the States as well. I have to be careful to who I relate my experiences to, because people’s reactions are more hurtful than anything from the fairy presence.’ ‘It was tied into local lore. It was too synchronistic. I have had other experiences afterward also other locations and circumstances.’ ‘[Fairies are] nature spirits.’ ‘[Fairies] could be tulpas that manifest with group consciousness. When you dwell on them in thought, they will manifest. They are protectors of the earth and remind us that there is more to our plane of existence that just physical.’