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‘Walking down a country track between the *** and *** I heard a whistling/humming noise from the hedge row bottoms. I was with a party of four others who were all walking ahead. It was summertime and the morning, around seven AM. I could hear the humming as I walked, but it stopped when I stopped. I took several dives into the thicket to see what was making the noise, but only caught a glimpse of things scurrying away. The final attempt revealed a humanoid creature about the size of a man’s hand. It was on all fours looking back at me. Its head was similar to a mouse’s. Its body the shape of a toad. But it had a very human look about it; not least because it was wearing a pair of tweed trousers and braces. It was frozen to the spot. I exclaimed. It shrieked and then bolted off into the scrub. I called it a gnome for a long time. My friends neither heard the humming/whistle, nor did they see or believe what I had seen.’ ‘Small animistic mouse/toad humanoid.’ ‘A humming and whistling at the same time.’ ‘It was a material/solid form.’ ‘Faery for me covers ‘the other’, the broad spectrum of energetic beings that live in parallel to the human world.’