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‘I walked through my bedroom door (which was up against the left wall that ran about three feet and then there was a bay window facing out onto the street at the front of the house) I saw a little person run the length of the wall, jump up onto the bay windowsill, run halfway along it and then just disappear into thin air. It shocked me and I ran downstairs to tell my nan about what I’d just witnessed. The memory is a bit sketchy because I was only about five or six and it happened very fast. They wore a pointy hat. That’s all I remember about how they looked.’ ‘Wore a hat. Wasn’t long-haired.’ Why a fairy? ‘Because of the height. It wasn’t a fairy because it didn’t have wings, but it was a pixie, an elf or something similar.’ ‘I’ve seen the term ‘fairies’ used as an umbrella term to describe things from fairies, to pixies, to elves, to gnomes etc’