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‘I myself actually had an encounter with a fairy-type creature of the small, diminutive type. It was on the twenty-seventh of December 2019 between 5.30 and 6.00 pm. It was extremely dark and cold outside and most of the streets were empty due to the Christmas celebrations going on. I’d just left my workplace and left home which required me to walk home in the dark. I was heading up a hill that had only two lamps at the top around a dried-up embankment where I saw the creature trying to climb up and struggle. I didn’t know what to make of it at the time and brushed it aside as me jumping to conclusions. I’m of Irish descent so I’m very familiar of the stories so I muttered out ‘Go Fuck yourself, Fairy’, jokingly. Not a second passed until I heard what sounded like a Christmas Cracker and a loud ringing clap go off right at the back of my head which made me stumble forwards, I was really caught by surprise at that point, quickly looked over my shoulder (I saw nothing and didn’t want to see anything either) and began running up the hill towards my house. The thing from memory was wearing a Phrygian cap (similar to the French depictions of Fairies, I’m in the South East of England so potentially the regional style fits), which rose upwards like a cone. I couldn’t tell what colour clothing he was wearing but it was either brown or greenish and no taller than a foot or two.’ Why a fairy? ‘Because visually it exactly fitted the looks of a Fairy and it did not seem ‘out of this world’ or beyond any spiritual plane.’ ‘I believe that [fairies] are the Aos Sí/Sidhe beings that aren’t of this world but potentially of another plane, though I do believe that they are extremely relative [related] to Humanity