‘I was approximately eight to nine years old when a band of fairy creatures flew in through my open bedroom window and danced along my duvet by my face. I was wide awake and both fascinated and scared, these fairies were nothing like the Enid-Blyton and Tinker Bell-style that I’d seen in books, they did have wings (barely visible and white/grey) very long thin limbs and feet. I felt they wanted me to go with them. Scared I screamed for my mother, when she entered the room the fairies stopped dancing, looked at her and then flew out the window again. She didn’t see them but believed me completely and also remembers that night to this day (nearly forty years later!) I believe and respect the fae and now as a practicing Wiccan. I believe this was possibly my first calling to the occult.’ ‘They did have wings (barely visible and white/grey) very long thin limbs and feet. They were certainly ethereal.’ ‘We lived on the edge of a modern (at the time) housing estate with fields on one side and ancient woodland just a short journey away.’ ‘I saw these creatures quite clearly and I ‘knew’ they were fairies!’ ‘[Fairies are] nature spirits.’ ‘I wish I could see them so clearly again. I’ve had fleeting glimpses and many feelings but have never seen the fae so clearly and so closely since!’
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Kent, England
1970s
Female: Age 0-10
occasional supernatural experiences
inside a private house
9 pm-12 am
two to ten minutes
on my own
you had just woken up or were just about to go to sleep
‘they were not unfriendly but I still felt afraid, in awe and uncomfortable’
hair prickling or tingling before or during the experience, a sense that the experience was a display put on specially for you, unusually vivid memories of the experience, a sense that the experience marked a turning point in your life, a sudden warmth before the experience