Fairies

david hobbs · Fairies

Forget the spelling, you know what I am talking about.

I am fascinated by the views in another post on the existence of fairies.

To me all things are possible but some a little less possible than others.

I was wondering under what circumstances you have seen fairies and what they looked like and was there any interaction.

I have only seen them with the inner eye and rarely at that. I have come to learn that what the inner eye sees is often symbolic of something else and presented to my mind as something I can relate too.

So why do you think that faeries exist and what are they. It's no good just saying nature spirits.

Lilly

When I was very young I spent most of my time in my Nan's garden,or my own. I played with fairies, marvelling at the exquisite colours of their wings and clothing;as for interactment on their part,I don't recall them speaking much, only singing and laughing; they used telepathy to talk to me.
They taught me to take off the end off a honeysuckle flower and extract the nectar,something I have since taught my grandchildren to do.
I played amongst poisonous plants,lupin,laburnum,nightshade,yew berries etc. all of these plants they showed me what ones I could eat. I learnt that you can eat the outer part of yew berries,and also fuschia seed pods. I was mixing petals and seed pods of various plants with my salads long before the 'expert chefs' on tv. Marigold petals and nasturtium look and taste lovely in salads. A glass of white wine with a flowerhead of honeysuckle steeped in it is delicious.
My mother couldn't see my fairies,although I tried to point them out to her. Many years later I don't see them so much,but I certainly feel their prescence and have had 'gifts' or apports from them.
I have in my possession,a small piece of very bright green fibre,found on a mossy bank in the woods .I have had this material examined by an expert in materials,as I myself have been in the 'rag-trade' for most of my life and couldn't make out what kind of material this was.
The expert couldn't enlighten me.I have tried burning a fragment,to see if it would melt ,ruling out if it was plastic,or even silk.
I can't wait for the Spring to get out in my garden again.

Nearly forgot, what do they look like? indescribably beautiful tiny people,about four to six inches in height,dressed in irridescant clothes that camouflage with the flowers and plants. Their wings are like tose of the dragon fly mostly transparent.
The ones pictured in story books do not do them justice.

Raymond

As always I don't make it my business to try and convince people of my beliefs and experiences, I merely point out things that I have witnessed and experienced and leave it up to the individual to believe me or not.

When I was a child our school took us on a holiday to Cornwall. We were all inner-city kids from east london and very few of us had been to the country before.

One day on this holiday we visted a farm and got to milk a cow and collect fresh eggs, etc...,
True to form I wandered off from the school party into the woods surrounding the farm.
The first 'strange' thing I saw was a pure white horse. I'm not sure (even to this day) if we have wild horses in this country but this horse didn't seem to 'belong' to anyone. It was in the middle of these woods, just standing there. I stroked it and it didn't run off or anything, just stood there nodding at me. At the time I was convinced it was a Unicorn although it didn't have a horn on it's head.
Then I heard laughing nearby, all I can remember it sounded like children's giggling but somehow, not.
Then I saw 3 balls of light shoot off into the trees. One was pink, one yellow and one green.
I felt a little uneasy, not scared, just a little nervous. So I made my way back to the farm.
When I got back there was much panic going on. From my point of view I had been gone about 20 minutes - half an hour at most. Apparently I had been missing for almost 4 hours.

When I was a little older my parents' bought a caravan on a camp site in Yalding, Kent.
We would go there most weekends and school holidays. I loved it there. From about Wednesday onwards I would start driving my Mum and Dad mad about 'going down the van'.

The campsite was set right on the edge of a dense wood with a river running through it and waterfall nearby. My Dad would always be off fishing and me and my sister and our friends we had made there would be off in the woods building camps and romping about for miles.

More often than not I would get bored of being around the other kids and wander off.
On a couple more occasions a saw these 'balls of light', once I saw a wisp of smoke. It was pink in colour and didn't just drift about aimlessly, it moved with intention and in different directions.

Only on two seperate occasions did I see 'fey folk' in the sense of being like little humans.
Both sightings were in Yalding. The first was the faerie. It flew passed me as I was going to the toilet block on the campsite. At first I thought it was a drangonfly but it was the wrong colour, it was definately a little woman.
The second time was when I was on one of my little treks through the woods.
I heard a cough a little way ahead of me and I don't know why but something made me duck behind a tree. Then I saw a little man, about a foot tall walking past going about his business.
He had a very, what I can only describe as a 'sqaushed' face, a bald head and a very rough looking shirt and trousers that were both dirty-green in colour. He had a very flat hat of the same colour but it wasn't on his head he carried it in his hand. He coughed again before wandering off and I didn't see him anymore.

I saw the 'balls of light' a few times in the garden back home in London. I would often sit in the garden at night when everyone was asleep as a child and these lights would float about but always on their own. I never saw a group of them together in London.

I've seen the balls of light a few times as an adult but never had the experiences as an adult that I had as a child.

Since then I've studied faeries and fey folk in detail and one day hope to have the opportunity to work with them in a magickal way.

I can't at the moment baceause of my living conditions - I don't even have a garden, and I don't spend nearly enough time in wild places to even catch a glimpse, but one day I will be back with the little people again.

Lilly

Raymond,do you feel a sense of honour and privilege to have had these experiences,I know I do. I too have heard the giggles,usually in the woods here along a path named strawberry lane.
The air here is almost pure and very clear,the lights you describe are very familiar to me ,I see them indoors too,but mostly in the garden at dusk.

As soon as you said about the white horse,I thought of a unicorn....another of my beliefs ...my argument is; if the horn were made of matted hair,as in rhinos, the horn would have rotted away when the body of the unicorn died,and no remains would be found, just the skeleton of a supposed horse. Hmmm?

Raymond

I don't know about Unicorns personally. Maybe they existed once upon a time and have since died out but they probably don't exist anymore, certainly not wandering about the coutryside of Cornwall at least!

I do feel it an honour because since learning about fey folk I know it's not everyone who gets to see them. Especially the Dwarf. Faeries are more common than you might expect. Faeries actually like humans and like to interact with us and I think more people have seen them than would ever let on.
Dwarves are different. They don't like humans and very rarely make an appearance in our realm. I feel very lucky for having seen him.

david hobbs

This is where i struggle.

Yes you may see fairies and gnomes but are they as they seem.

Missing time for instance is classic UFO stuff.

Small people again classic UFO.

For fairy mounds read grounded saucers.

I do believe that fairies may be seen.

I do not believe for one second that they spend all day looking after plants. That is just ludicrous.

I feel that they, what ever they are, fit in with what ever you will believe they are, and I do not think that you have to be thinking of or working with them at the time of their appearance.

What are they?

Not glorified gardeners that's for sure. Space people, I doubt it.

Tommy

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And I don't believe for one moment that my 'lost time' incident was in any way connected to aliens or UFO's.

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Raymond

If you don't trust your own experiences I'm not sure how you will ever learn anything.

david hobbs

That is precisely what I have leaned.

You think you know something and then you realise that you are only seeing it from one perspective. Why get stuck in that position. Why not look at the other possibilities even if they have no validity.

If I wanted to work with Fairies and Gnomes or any other type of entity they would no doubt appear as they have in the past.

meiah

I remember something from so long ago that i can not really remember it. I recall having been playing in the garden, and my mum being fascinated by me playing with something, and talking, and laughing near the roses. Funny, I don't remember playing, just my Mums fascination.

I remember drawing colour when i came in, not things, but colour.

I don't remember anything else, but i remembered that when I read this thread.

Oh well, maybe not at all relevent, but it may be.

david hobbs

Interesting that you remember colour.

With a little more learning your mind would have perhaps made that colour into a recognisable fairy.

Which would be real, the colour or the fairy.

Or perhaps neither thing.

Lilly

Speaking of colour,I have seen,and was wondering if any one else has; colours that cannot be described as they are not in the spectrum as we know it.

david hobbs

I have heard of this before but in connection with people in trance or meditating seeing what they describe as "colours in spirit".

This is to say that they make they make the claim that colour if somehow on a wider spectrum in the spirit world.

I am far from scientific but I cannot see any reason why some folks should not see a wider spectrum than others.

The wider spectrum is certainly there, and scientifically proved.

Raymond

Hunter

I have a feeling, going back to the original point of this thread that fairies and ETs are one and the same.
In ufo parlance one talks of the OZ factor of lost time, and in fairie parlance there's the Rip van Winkle factor of lost years.
Therefore are ufos the modern way of looking at faerie? Or is faerie and faerie land the old way of talking about ufos and abductions ?
Where do we draw the line, and can we ?

Are trolls, fairies and giants, race memories of ufo and alien encounters, or are alien encounters the modern way of looking at faerie ?

What do you think ?

Raymond

Personally I think the two are completely seperate things. The things I've experienced are definately of this earth.

Also, I wish we would stop thinking of our ancestors as complete thickos.

If they had seen aliens and ufos I'm sure they would call them aliens/ufos and not fairies or little folk.

Hunter

I doubt it as they had no knowledge of flying vehicles at the time !
Plus I think you're missing the point Raymond !

david hobbs

Yes the point is this.

We see things through our various culturaly tutored eyes, and in our various belief ridden ways.

So one thing, energy if you wish, becomes many things. ie Fairies or earth

lights or Jack o' The Lantern or a UFO etc etc.

"Definatley of the Earth" is a bit sweeping really when we are talking about the paranormal.

7thgen

my 50 cents on my experience of what I believe to have been fairys..

I was living at my sisters house located in icklingham. It is the oldest house in the village and was once a whole as one house with the neighbours, now split into two houses. About 4 weeks ago I went outside to her front garden to smoke a cig. As I was just standing there smoking away I had no thoughts just chilling, I noticed what looked like bubbles with faerys inside forming. I started to feel really excited not nervous but intrigued, the bubbles floated down from this tree just outside my sisters house, in a smoothe transition, hit the ground like it had burst an then inside revealed what seemed like some sort of character like a large (1 foot in diameter mizmidor but a beautiful orange, it didn't look real the more I focused on it, it became transparent I could see what was behind it through it, they were floating in controlled movements, I knew they were not dragon fly's because I could see a real dragon fly hovering next to them which moved totally different and so much faster, but was drawn to these bubbles. It was like these bubbles were in slow motion. I also noticed a white orb forming accross the road from the house just before I saw the bubbles, my friend jay came out to also witness this but it didn't seem to develop as much as it had when I'd been on my own. My friend Jay is definately sensitive but not as in tune as myself. My eyes have also been seeing weird visuals again including white sparkles in the field opposite my sisters house, in the house and this blue hue lighting up the nextdoor neighbours pathway. Anyway I was introduced to the neighbours shortly after and by chance the mum and the daughter are both phycic, they have a house covered in crystals, sage, salt, and advised us on good protection methods. Apparently where they lived in ireland originally was so bad of activity they decided to move. Lucky for me to get chatting to discover one of the mums daughters had also seen the same bubbles in the field opposite. She reffered to them as fairys also! Lent us some fabulous books one of diana coopers, and a book about dreams explained.

your thoughts welcome