‘Driving late at night on country road, I witnessed a small man in the middle of the road. He was perhaps three feet in height. I swerved to avoid him. He did not have wings or anything like that; I took him to be a sidh or leprechaun.’ ‘Small man of normal human proportions.’ ‘Seems to fit my understanding of sidh, little people, etc. Well-versed in Scottish/Appalachian folk traditions.’
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Virginia, US
1990s
Male: Age 11-20
never or almost never has supernatural experiences
on a country road
12 am-3 am
less than a minute
on my own
you were tired and hadn’t slept for a long time [‘not excessively sleepy’]
aloof
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