A survey of modern fairy experiences by Dr Simon Young

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Michigan, US 1960s
Female: Age 0-10 occasional supernatural experiences
inside a private house 6 pm-9 pm one to two minutes on my own
you were very sad
friendly
profound silence before the experience, a sense that the experience was a display put on specially for you, unusually vivid memories of the experience, a sudden warmth before the experience

‘It was close to Christmas and my mother was pregnant with what would be my sister. She was around six months along and she was not in the best mood, because she was afraid that there would be another strike and my father would have no work. She was hard on me, I think, because she did not want me to expect much from Santa. I had come down from upstairs and the lights on the tree had been turned on and there were a few packages around the tree. I sadly thought that none would be for me. When to my surprise and delight these beautiful fairies about eight to ten of them were holding hands and dancing around one of the packages. They were about six to seven inches high and bright shining blue from power white, blue to a deep bright neon blue with a hint of purple. Their light was so radiant around them and made it look like had wings of light. Their laughter was bell like and they called my name. I move closer and sat on the floor. They told me not to be sad, that my mother loved me and that she was going to have a baby girl so I would have a sister. I asked them how they knew the package was for me and they said it was the little blue toy piano I wanted. I was so happy and told my mother. At first, she did not believe me but when I told her in the box was a piano and it was a blue one and she could see nothing had been moved she softened. She wanted to name the baby Angailica if a girl but named her Sylvia which means girl or Fae of the woods.’ ‘What I saw was many years later very much like one of the fairies in the Brian Froud Fairy deck.’ ‘Like beings made from blue light. Seemed somewhat more feminine in nature but hard to say.’ ‘Bell like with tinkling’. Fairies are ‘beings that slip in and out of our dimension’.