‘I saw the bucka in our garden at ***. He is about three-foot tall with a dark beard and rather frightening so he must be a bucka du. I’ve found out more recently that the poet John Harris who grew up [nearby] had an experience with the bucka when he got lost at nightfall on the moors there as a child of about five (c. 1825). When he was found he was sobbing that ‘There is nobody here but I and the buckaw’. ‘Three foot tall, stocky/muscular and swarthy.’ It just seems to me to have been a spirit and a spirit that originated in that form, i.e. not a ghost of another, but may well change with age or it’s experiences.’ ‘[Fairies are] spirits with some sort of physical form.’
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Cornwall, England
1990s
Male: Age 0-10
occasional supernatural experiences
in a garden
3 pm-6 pm
one to two minutes
on my own
no special state reported
angry
a sense that the experience was a display put on specially for you, unusually vivid memories of the experience