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‘As a child I always played in the nearby woods alone. On this one occasion which I remember to this day I suddenly entered a part of the woods which I had never seen before. There before [me?] were all many different types of creatures/people have a what [I] can only describe as a musical party with food and drink placed around which seem to be neither on the floor nor on tables. I can remember being transfixed by this event for what [I] thought of as mere minutes. [It] was at least an hour of my time because I remember turning and running back home which was only a short distance from the woods to tell my mother. She accepted I had seen it and never said it was or wasn’t real. In returning to the woods, I could never find the place again.’ ‘Some were like normal people some seemed like children others like old people, and some were like humanoid animals and others were something I could not express.’ ‘The music was the first thing I heard it was the sound of pipes and drums and stringed instruments.’ Did the place have a reputation for fairies? ‘I had never [heard] of any’. ‘Definitely fae’. ‘I tend [to] wonder what their opinion of us is.’