A survey of modern fairy experiences by Dr Simon Young

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Victoria, Australia 2000s
Female: Age 0-10 never or almost never has supernatural experiences
in woodland 9 am-12 pm two to ten minutes with one other person who shared my experience
you were extremely happy
joyful
profound silence before the experience, unusually vivid memories of the experience

‘I was about four years old, camping with my mother, stepdad and friends. We were preparing lunch and I was curious to find one of the family friends sitting below a tree staring into the tree. From what I saw nothing was in the tree but yellow buds. I sat with her and asked what she was doing. She said she was watching the fairies. I was very surprised and remarked there were none. She told me to look closer. I focused on the yellow buds and saw there were about ten tiny pixie-like men fluttering about, they were all a bright golden yellow. I was so excited and shocked I bolted inside to show my mum the fairies and begged her to come outside and look but she dismissed me as being silly. I sat back out with the friend, and she gave me a tiny clear crystal-like orb with rainbow colours in it and said they had given it to her but wanted me to have it. I kept it until I was about six or seven, but it just disappeared one day. I never gave doubted this experience and have remembered it vividly since it happened.’ ‘I was young, it felt like an innocent safe experience, very joyous and I saw it all very clearly.’