‘I have had a few fairy experiences. The first when I was nine years old. I walked home from school, alone, and when I arrived to my house, I saw some little lights in the grass. I walked to them and when I looked down where I had seen them, I then saw three tiny little flowers. There were all the same type of flower (unknown to me now, and have never seen any like them since), growing in a little cluster, in our otherwise weed-free yard. What was so unusual was that one was blue, one pink, and one pale yellow. I knew they were a rare gift, so I picked them and went indoors, where I immediately placed them in my little bible. I use to open it up to the page where they were pressed, sometimes when I was sad or happy, and would marvel at them. I still have that little bible, but somewhere along the way, the flowers either fell out or turned to dust. All that remains is a little yellow remnant of a petal. Another time, when I was in my thirties, my mother and I were driving through an open field which had a seldom used tire pathway leading to a cabin in the middle of ‘no where’ (***, Colorado) where we were going to spend the weekend. While my mother drove, I kept seeing bright, golden lights in the grasses. They were everywhere! I knew they were fairies and they ‘followed’ us all the way to the cabin. When I returned home from that weekend I told my soul sister about my sighting of them, and described them to her. Years later, when she and her boyfriend (now husband) were at the pond on his property, they saw a blue light on the other side of the water. Remembering how I described the fairies I saw, she immediately knew that it was a fairy and told him. Skeptical, he said, ‘If it’s a fairy, call it over here.’ She did, and it sweetly obeyed! They both marveled at it for some time before it flew away and disappeared in the grasses. To this day, her husband believes in fairies. When I asked her to describe it to me, she said that it was a little blue light being. No distinct features were seen, but the shape was human-like, and its essence/energy was peaceful, loving and gentle.’ ‘Brilliant coloured light.’ ‘The first experience when I was a little girl, I just knew they were fairies. I don’t know how. They felt like fairies, being so close to the earth. The second experience, when I was in my thirties, I recognized them from when I was a little girl. Again, I just knew they were fairies.’ ‘[Fairies are] beings of light – living on a different frequency level than us.’ ‘Though I read fairy books, and love the illustrated fairies shown in books and art, the fairies I saw did not have wings. Both expressions of them are beautiful, and both feel like kind and gentle beings.’
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Texas, US
1960s
Female: Age 0-10
occasional supernatural experiences
in a garden
3 pm-6 pm
less than a minute
on my own
you were undertaking a repetitive task (e.g. picking blackberries) [‘both times I was not expecting to see them’]
friendly, joyful
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