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‘This is one of many experiences I have had after spiritually ‘meeting’ the being called Robin Goodfellow (also known as Puck or Hobgoblin) and several of his fairy companions a few years prior. I have intentionally had a recurrent relationship with him. This day was especially vivid because I could strongly ‘see’ him sitting across from me at the end of the wooden table of a farmhouse, and all of his gestures and expressions, including as he leaned forward and watched me. His communication with me was more psychic than verbal but his appearance was more vivid than imagination, though it didn’t always literally appear in front of me. I would say it was somewhere between my mind’s eye and the physical world, not exactly a full-blown visual hallucination, but close. I had called to him on purpose and left offerings for him, including beer, dairy, and candles. It was slightly after noon, but the windows and blinds were all closed, and lights turned off, candles were lit. He had expected this and agreed upon this, based on past communication; I was in no way a stranger to him. I have experienced him in multiple forms but in this form, which is a common one, I see a man, approximately five-foot-one-inch, medium built, brown skin, dark hair, facial hair and significant body hair, and wearing green clothing in a formal menswear style. I spoke with him aloud, he spoke internally with me, and I completed a long ritual. I could see and possibly sense some of his feelings during this. Some of his feelings or communications to me surprised me and were not what I expected, including disagreements with me, which is one reason why I believe this was not merely my imagination. I have had many experiences with him before and since then. These have varied in tone, including intriguing, intimidating/alarming, confusing, humorous, argumentative, and emotionally intimate. I ‘met’ this spirit unintentionally before I knew much of anything about Robin Goodfellow or fairies, and before I realized who he was, and therefore first got to know him without some of the preconceptions about fairies, before later realizing his connections and learning more about his oldest folklore. I am also aware this is the name he is called by but not his full ‘true name’. I am pagan so I am familiar with interacting with various kinds of beings, but when I first met him, it was in a mundane context sitting on a couch playing a game, where I did not expect to encounter anything spiritual. I have encountered him on my own, and in ritual contexts with other people. In both my first meeting with him and the experience I describe here, the place I was staying was a rented house for a short-term stay rather than my actual home. However, he is also welcome in my actual home, and I have had experiences with him here too.’ ‘I have had human ghost experiences in the past, as well as experiences with deities of my main pantheon (Norse); Robin feels like something importantly different. Categories are imperfect, and I was uncertain what category to place him under for a while and very confused! He was evasive about it for a while. Then I connected some things together and he and other trusted sources (tarot, trusted deities) confirmed he is the spirit called Robin Goodfellow. This means I also have books to turn to for some folkloric information about him, and I believe I am interacting with the same being.’ Fairies are ‘otherworldly beings, just as real as humans are (we are otherworldly to those in a different spiritual realm), some of them may have previously been human before dying and becoming something else, but some were never human to begin with.’