‘I awoke in my bed to find myself surrounded by tiny men dressed in brown holding spears. They did not speak but I was aware that if I moved or cried out that they would stab me. I could not move, and did not cry out. When they finally ‘left’ I felt that I had passed some test, and that I would not be taken. It is a very strong memory. I believed that my home in the country was surrounded by good fairies, who lived in the trees, but these were malevolent, and I thought they must be brownies.’ ‘Very small, all dressed in brown or dark colours.’ ‘I was surrounded by nature and felt that benevolent fairies existed outside in the trees.’ ‘[What are fairies?] Not sure. Little supernatural creatures.’
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Manitoba, Canada
1980s
Female: Age 0-10
occasional supernatural experiences
inside a private house
9 pm-12 am
two to ten minutes
on my own
you had just woken up or were just about to go to sleep
no fairy mood reported
loss of sense of time, hair prickling or tingling before or during the experience, 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