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Seeing & Photographing Fairies

Do fairies exist?

  • Yes definitely

    Votes: 3 27.3%

  • Maybe

    Votes: 6 54.5%

  • Don't know

    Votes: 2 18.2%

  • Definitely not

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    11
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Real fairy tales

I'm interested in hearing peoples real life encounters with fairies. I have no doubt they exist . We have many fortean type stories that have been handed down from generation to generation in our family. My favourite is the one that happened to my grandmother and her brother. My grandmother worked in a pub in a small Irish rural town .One night she had stayed late because there was a lock in. Her brother had waited to walk her home. It was about 2-3 in the morning when she was ready to go. They walked home down a road that was a short cut home. All the houses were in darkness . Yet my grandmother had heard music playing loud from one of the houses an old school teacher lived there alone. The music slowly wound down. My grandmother described it to me like an old gramaphone record .Then she could hear voices shouting heatly at one another. She turned to her brother and asked him if he could hear it. He could'nt hear a sound but he saw lights on and many small figures had been dancing near the bright window. My grandmother had seen nothing yet she could hear the sounds. They hurried home and told my great grandmother who was furious. She told them never to walk down that road at that time of night again. As it had used to be a fairy hill before they built over it. My great grandmother told them that what they had seen and heard was a fairy revel that had turned into a fairy fight basically. She said that the last thing they wanted was to be caught in the middle of a angry fairies and that they had had a lucky escape.
Has anyone got any similar stories as this has me intrigued?
There were other stories associated with the road inculding one that was built over a fairy path and was cursed. The house had many suicides in it and bad luck , eventually with it burning down altogether. Apparently the road had been called fairy hill road or something like that when it was first built. I cant remember the precise name but was renamed later because of the stories surrounding it.
 
personally i don't beleive in fairys, because there is no hard evidence, i'm also not ignorant to the fact that many 'honest' people claim to have experienced fairy's.
 
Now do you mean the "tinkerbell" type (which are a fairly recent invention and a bit naff really) or the ancient Celtic and Scandinavian types which are basically ghosts?
 
I used to get letters from Titania - they were written in very small copper plate writing on pale blue note paper and used to advise me that I should be nicer to my younger sister. They used to appear under my pillow when I was a child - the tooth that I put there mysteriously disappeared.

I used to pay great heed to Titania and Oberon and even used to be nice to my sister for a couple of days afterwards - though in traditional sibling fashion it never lasted long.

It wasn't till I got older that I wondered how Titania had managed to master a blue biro - it being so much bigger than her and everything....
I still have the letters in a jewelry box of special things somewhere.
 
I do'nt mean the tinkerbell type. I mean the type that are to be respected. My family tales of fairies are of menacing fairies that are to be left alone or risk bad fortune and retribution . They seem to be entities that are not concerned with humans unless humans interfere. They are certainly not "flower fairy" types that grant wishes etc. If they do grant wishes in the tales it definitely is a case of being careful for what you wish as there is always a twist.
 
Faerie photos (no, not the stupid ones)

We've all experienced the familiar feeling of KNOWING you've seen a photo somewhere, but not being able to find it ever again. I have an ongoing search for miniature elephants (i.e., an inch tall) that I SWEAR I've seen a whole website on and at least two entire TV programs devoted to, but I can't find anything at all about them.

Anyway, what follows are several elusive photos that I actually FOUND, ones that you've probably never seen or seen once and forgot about.

The source of these photos is http://www.lavendise.com/photos.htm , but to my dismay I can't find any larger scans of them, which is why I'm posting this. I'm looking for ANY information AT ALL about these, or even larger versions of them.

Without further ado, photos follow as attachments, with descriptions in the posts.
 
Photo 1

A photograph of two little entities in Cornwall. The naked woman next to them is a witch who helped summon them.

(why do I have the feeling this one will get the most hits?)

(edit: file too big to attach, so hope this link works):

fair9.jpg
 
Photo 2

Taken in La Jolla, CA, USA. Supposedly a "tiny entity in knee length shorts" is cavorting in the lower right of this picture. I can see him, but not in any detail at all, and I'd love a bigger scan of this.
 
Photo 3

Else Arnhem took these in Germany in 1927, nowhere near as cool as the first two but a hell of a lot better than the Cottingley ones.
 
Photo 4

A little person's shoe, found on the Beara Peninsula, Ireland in 1835. Either a very interesting artifact, or a hoax by some guy with WAY too much time on his hands and a needle a millimeter long.
 
Photo 5

Finally, the little mummified guy they found in some mountain range in the US a long time ago. Everyone remembers this guy, at the very least you'll remember as soon as you see the picture.

Question is, whatever happened to this guy? Where is he now? Did they ever figure out what he was? Fetus, acephalitic baby, leatherwork, little man, what?
 
In my opinion:

The 2 "fairies" standing on the ground next to the naked woman (I didn't see them at first, but look to the left of her feet) could very easily be plastic dolls/figurines (the sort you get as film/cartoon merchandise in Forbidden Planet etc), possibly painted white to reflect the light. There is no visible detail in them.

The "entity in knee-length shorts" looks too vague to identify even as a distinctly humanoid shape, let alone one wearing a particular type of clothing, to me. Probably a lens artifact (cf. Orbs, Rods).

Else Arnhem's "fairy": again, vague and blurred enough to be anything... the shape of it resembles the "spikes" of flowers that you get on some woodland plants (can't remember the name of them) to me.

Re the miniature mummy: I read something, either in FT or on the net, fairly recently about some human skins which had been "shrunk" using a chemical process used by the "headshrinkers" in the Brazilian Amazon region, but I think by some "eccentric" European colonialist who had mastered the art and applied it, with extreme difficulty, to whole skins creating whole "shrunken people". Anyone seen the link?
 
I thought the miniature mummies were actually foetuses which had been buried with funeral rites like children.

One of my daughters used to see & converse with fairies as a young child- wish I'd given her a camera!
 
The beach one looks like a bit of accidental forced-perspective. If you look at the angle of the sea the camera is far from flat. I believe the small figure is just someone a long way off up the beach who looks closer because the angle of the camera tricks you into thinking the perspective is different.
 
Most of these pix are in a book about Real Fairy Encounters (a fairly reputable one, too). I was surprised they didn't have the one with the seemingly maleformed entity walking up a country road (it's a freaky pix, don't know if there is a web link to it or not).

(just found the book: "Fairies : real encounters with little people by Janet Bord", and she and her husband have a website up: http://www.bordbooks.co.uk/ .)

From what I remember, the little mummified man was xrayed, and was definately human bones inside, but as to what it was, most archaeologists think it may have been a deformed child. It was found however sitting upright & crosslegged in the cave it was in, like it was being venerated.

Arnheim's picks looks alot like the Cottingly photographs to me, cut outs. You can see this more in bigger pictures.

The Cornwall witch's picture is more convincing to me, but I wouldn't bet on their authenticity. I wonder if FT has ever tracked down the witch in the pix to get her story...

The California pix looks alot like forced perspective for me. If you see a bigger, less cropped version, you can tell he's catching a frisbee.

BTW, has anybody ever seen the film Photographing Fairies? Thought it was pretty darn good, myself...
 
Ann Jefferies & the Fairies: Folklore or Fact?

Just got through reading the story of one Ann Jefferies, who according to the writer of the tract (from 1692) saw some fairies and had a fit where she lost control of her body and kept saying "They are coming in the Window". When she came out of her debilitating experience, she was able to perform healing by rubbing the afflicted part, first performed on the lady of the house. She also no longer needed to eat regular food, she was brought food by the fairies, a nourishing bread that was seen & eaten by the tract writer (a small boy who Ann cared for in the manor house)

The town got suspicious when she started healing people, being that she was an illiterate servant girl (no class prejudice there). Thus she was arrested and sent to prison to see if she would still survive without earthy food. I think she did this for 9 months, after which time she was let go with the caveat that she could no longer work in the same house. Apparently, the author only knew her then, and was trying to get her to write down her experience and expand on her later life but she didn't for fear of further prison experience.

What's interesting is that I found it in a collection called
Seventeenth-Century Tales of the Supernatural , which seemed to try and lump in this story with general supernatural fiction of the time, even though it appears to have been written as fact. In fact, the only reason I can see that it's included is because it deals with fairies.

Is anybody else here familiar with her story, is there collaberating evidence for the tale, and do people believe it a genuine fortean occurance? Or is it just a folktale and it was always intended as such?

Here is a nice summation of the story for those who haven't heard of her before:

http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2001/oct/m15-003.shtml
 
The link you provided definately gave other accounts about it. The long version by Robert Hunt - where did he get his facts from if he lived two hundred years later?

But the last quote stating her religious status was pretty interesting. I think the original account is accurate, because it gives both thewonder and the strange terror associated with other people who've seen the fair folk, like Robert Kirk.

Thanks for the links!:)
 
Just thinking about Robert Kirk's account of the fairies, and it seems like his was so much more negative... in Ann's story, the elves are helpers, and in Robert's, they are to be feared.

Did the rich and well-off fear the Fair Folk, and the poor embrace them?
 
Invitation to Elfland

In Invitation to Elfland Moyra Doorly briefly describes a technique which she and another person use to develop the ability to see fairies. Unfortunately this description is all too brief. Does anyone know where to find a more detailed description of this technique. The article doesn't mention how to contact Moyra Doorly.
 
"describes a technique which she and another person use to develop the ability to see fairies"

If you want to see them strongly enough, you will.

Just like anything else. (This technique can also be used for finding evidence of WMD...):)
 
Revisioning the Earth by Paul Devereaux has lots of stuff about how to get in touch with the Earth, genius loci type things etc, I've not read too much of it cause I want to learn myself without someone else telling me I'm doing it right or wrong, but if you need telling how maybe that book will help. I got it for a couple of quid in a local remainders bookshop.
 
I was interested in the fairies she saw which resembled sticks. One of my daughters used to see identical things as a young child!:eek:
 
I was interested in the fairies she saw which resembled sticks
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Yeah... I wonder what they could have been..?
 
I think you might be on to something there...
 
The 'fairies' my daughter used to see, and for which she had no other word than that, seemed to made out of sticks and bark, exactly as in the FT article. They interacted with her in a friendly if not enthusiastic way and never threatened to harm her. She only saw them outdoors and as she assumed we could see them too, didn't bother telling me about them until she was in her teens.

She also astrally projected, saw recently-dead people and experienced sundry fortean phenomena. (She features in the IHTM archives on the FT homepage.)

So I'm very interested in these fairy beings and would like to invite them round for a chat about pots of gold or their modern equivalent, lottery numbers.:D
 
stickman... I want one! have introduced them into my zoo/bot pantheon....

and also, given the current great thread on feral stickinsects in teh UK...... could this be a prosaic explanatio for /some/ of teh sightings?

Kath
 
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