A survey of modern fairy experiences by Dr Simon Young

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Scotland 1980s
Female: Age 31-40 occasional supernatural experiences
in woodland 3 am-6 am ten minutes to an hour on my own
no special state reported
aloof
loss of sense of time, profound silence before the experience, unusually vivid memories of the experience

‘An invisible wall that I walked into and could not pass made me look up from the ground cover. A life size figure on a white horse. The figure was green, neither male or female, appeared to be made of light as the shoulders were exaggerated and faded into the air. A feeling of wellbeing was with me for several months afterwards and other sightings crowded in to everyday life. It stood in a large patch of soloons seal [Solomon’s Seal?] in native woodland. Days later we found a large piece of iron machinery, half buried in that spot and removed it. The only thing [sic] description I ever found close to what I saw was related by a seer in The Fairy Faith p. 60 approx. The shining ones? As I remember it. In the weeks preceding it I had been helping to remove rubbish tipped into and ancient woodland near ***’. ‘The feeling of well being that was left [made me think that it was a fairy experience].’ ‘[Fairies are] just souls working through karma on another dimension.’