‘I was at the bottom of my paternal grandparents’ garden where there was a small walled in area containing a lot of climbing flowers. This was a garden that I visited throughout my childhood and always referred to it as ‘the fairy garden’ with my father. The fairies appeared only very briefly in my peripheral vision, throughout the flowers. I learned to believe they were figments of my imagination, but I do not truly think they were.’ ‘Most like the Flower Fairy images.’ [The place] ‘did, [have a fairy reputation] although I did not know this before my experience.’ ‘I’m sure a lot of young girls would love to see fairies and I don’t know if I did but it really feels like I did.’
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Wales
1980s
Female: Age 0-10
occasional supernatural experiences
in a garden
12 pm-3 pm
‘briefly but on several different occasions’
on my own
no special state reported
friendly, joyful
a sense that the experience was a display put on specially for you, unusually vivid memories of the experience