‘I saw a dryad in a tree. I was at *** for an herbalist conference in 2009. I walked into the college green, which contained quite a few old trees all around the green. I glanced up at a huge, old and beautiful tulip tree. I was admiring the tree, which was in full flower. Really gorgeous. As I looked up, I noticed a being standing on a branch quite far up in the tree at least fifteen feet up. There was no way a person could climb up there. The being had darkish brown skin, no hair that I could see and feminine clothing that looked like the flowers on the tree. I stared for a few seconds then blinked and she was gone. I didn’t tell anyone for years about this and only then did I tell another herbalist friend who is also a Wiccan and understands this kind of stuff. I always figured the tree spirit was interested in all the people there who were interested in plants, plant spirits and who were open to this kind of stuff.’ ‘Brownish skin, feminine clothing matching the tree flowers (yellow and orange).’ Why a fairy? ‘I’ve dealt with ghosts. This wasn’t a ghost. Aliens don’t look like trees and stand in them – at least not typically!’ ‘I think fairies are beings that naturally exist in this world, slightly adjacent to our dimension, that across the veil thing.’
§766
Massachusetts, US
2000s
Female: Age 41-50
regular supernatural experiences
‘on a college green’
9 am-12 pm
less than a minute
on my own* (‘there were many strangers around but no one with me personally)
you were undertaking a repetitive task (e.g. picking blackberries) (‘when I’m alone and very quiet)
‘interested in what was going on’
no special experience reported