‘We [Canadian tourists] were visiting Ireland with a new friend, one who practices fairy magic. We had found an ancient ring of stones said to have fairy activity. My husband waited in the car. A skeptic, I was sitting on a boulder just outside the ring, waiting for my friend, who had stepped down the slope to make her offering to the fae. I felt it embarrassing, somewhat fake, that she was talking to the air. She was approximately fifty feet from me. I was in a neutral state of mind, looking at the hawthorn. A white winged person flew into the hawthorn branches.’ ‘Opaque. White wings and body, fluttering.’ ‘I saw what I saw – a textbook fairy. Before that moment I had not believed fairies to be small beings with fluttery wings.’ Fairies are ‘either beings from a parallel reality OR imagination’. ‘What I saw leads me to believe that the fae are not here to grant our wishes or play tricks on humans. Fae are like air. They… exist.’
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Co. Galway, Ireland
2010s
Female: Age 51-60
never or almost never has supernatural experiences
in open land (fields etc)
12 pm-3 pm
less than a minute
with one other person who shared my experience
no special state reported
no fairy mood reported
profound silence before the experience