A survey of modern fairy experiences by Dr Simon Young

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Virginia, US 2000s
Female: Age 11-20 occasional supernatural experiences
in a city, inside a private house 12 am-3 am no duration given on my own
no special state reported
no fairy mood reported
loss of sense of time, a sense that the experience was a display put on specially for you, a sense that the experience marked a turning point in your life

‘I did a ritual to receive my fairy name. ‘I am faery and faery bound. A name for me will soon be found. And by this name the Lady knows that I am hers where e’er she goes. So magick name now come to me. This is my will so mote it be.’ (Still have it in writing so I looked it up.) A ball of red energy appeared before me. Sometimes it looked like fire, sometimes a young child with wings in a red womblike cocoon, sometimes just red light. I knew it was in reality formless energy. The name Brigid appeared in my mind. The image of the faery remained for a while and gradually faded.’ ‘Because I had specifically called on the fae.’ ‘[Fairies are] beings without inherent physical form, though they might take on a physical form sometimes. Have something to do with nature and/or natural processes.’