‘There is a local shaman who had developed an interest in faeries and elementals. She offered a faerie workshop at her place, and I was the only person who showed up. After some rituals, we walked into the woods behind her apartment. There were a few odd experiences, but she told [me?] that there was a faerie ring on the other side of a creek. She took me there and left me on my own, telling [me] she would ring a bell when it was time for me to return. I had noticed on crossing the creek, the air was watery or mirage like. Mind you, I was completely sober and am not one to drink alcohol or take drugs. I decided to sit in the faerie circle that was made of stones and meditate. After a short time, I opened my eyes and looked down the embankment of the creek. I saw movement in the leaves a bit of a distance from where I sat. At first, I thought it was chipmunk or a twig blowing, but after squinting my eyes, I saw a small, brownish, humanoid figure. It appeared to be scavenging through the leaves. Then I heard the shaman’s bell on the other side of the creek, so my gaze was broken. When I looked back, the elemental, or whatever it was, was gone. I returned to the other side of the creek and noticed when I crossed the air was no longer watery. It was again normal.’ ‘Brown, small, maybe a head covering, did not see hair.’ ‘This particular experience seemed like those experiences described relating to elemental type. Also, I get feelings and my feeling was that it was elemental, opposed to other experiences I have had.’ Fairies are: ‘One of the myriad beings that come in [? and] go into our physical world. I think they can be benign, friendly, or dangerous, depending on the being and I believe they are from alternate dimensions or [from the] universe physical world.’
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New York State, US
2010s
Female: Age 51-60
occasional supernatural experiences
in woodland
12 pm-3 pm
one to two minutes
on my own
you had just woken up or were just about to go to sleep, you were very sad, ‘meditative state’
no fairy mood reported
loss of sense of time, profound silence before the experience