Fairies, elves and little people
have existed in legends for centuries, but that doesn't make them
any less real
Real Encounters with Fairies
Connecting the Dots of the Paranormal: Little
People and Fairies
Robert Kreuk
In my
first article on this area I set about a general line of thought
that will continue through others that I do. This time we'll take a
look and Little People and fairies.
Whatever our current, modern
thought on Little People and fairies, the fact legends and stories
exist of them in cultures around the world is hard to dispute. No
other area is a attached to these creatures as England, Ireland, and
Scotland possessing some amazing stories of these beings. Sightings
of Little People and fairies continue to this day, and perhaps even
some of our modern sightings of things we don't understand could be
this phenomena as well. Here an example of a recent sighting from
the book
Fairies: Real Encounters With Little People by Janet Bord:
"Quite recently, probably in
the early 1990s, fifteen-year-old Brian Collins was on holiday in
the Aran Islands off west Donegal. While out walking early one
morning he saw two little men fishing from a bank overlooking the
sea. They were about 3 and a half feet tall, dressed in green with
brown boots. One had a grey beard and a flat hat. They were laughing
and talking in Irish, and suddenly they jumped over the bank. When
Brian went to look for them, they had gone, but they had left a pipe
behind. He took it back to the house where he was staying, but while
there disappeared from a locked drawer. When Brian saw the little
men again, he tried to photograph them and tape-record their
conversation, but nothing came out."
The point of the modern day
sighting is to really show these events still happen. Fairies vary
in size, shape and appearance, but when seen the person involved in
the sighting is aware of what they're looking at. As the above
sighting shows our movie and storybooks depicting these beings as
small, sometimes bearded, and commonly dressed in green or brown may
be based on sightings and reports of them. The classic book The
Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies by Reverend
Robert Kirk details the life and culture of these beings. It was
believed he got his information from local folklore and tales where
he grew up in Aberfoyle, Scotland. A diary of his has since been
found directly regarding this subject matter called The Secret
Lives of Elves and Fairies; From The Private Journal of The Reverend
Robert Kirk where, if you can believe it, he says he
conversed and visited these beings where they dwell in the Fairy
Realm.
Kirk is not the only person
who has claimed to have gone where these beings live. He called it
"The Lands Beneath" and said the fairies lived inside the Earth. In
the sightings and stories I've read through there seems to be at
least a few where people report two different things, or call them
different things, but may be the same phenomena. A common one over
time is the nature spirit. In the eyes of the witnesses the beings
share a lot of similarities. But can we trust our eyes with this
area of the paranormal?
Both of the above books
suggest that fairies, or some races of them, can shapeshift. They
sometimes use what's called "glamor" to change their appearance,
perhaps letting us see what we think we should be seeing. This is
also a common believe in fairy lore and seems to be lending itself
to modern studies and researchers trying their best to define
something that may not be definable and simply look how our mind
tells us it should look. Over the centuries many common threads can
be found with these beings, glamor and shapeshifting are among them.
People seeing them disappear into thin air is also concurrent with
lots of sightings.
The very nature of these
beings makes proving their existence next to impossible. Do we
really have to prove if they exist or not to get the bottom of other
things though? We already have mountains of information on them
going back the last few hundred years. It may be time to use the
fantastic to help provide clues and missing pieces to other areas of
the fantastic. Other cultures besides the Scottish and Irish thought
them to be fact, such as the Cherokee Indians designating a name for
them. Perhaps Little People and fairies should be filed under
cryptozoology to make things a little simpler. A couple fairy
beliefs and abilities seen and reported by these creatures overlap
with other areas of the paranormal.
I don't know what the entire
picture of this is supposed to look like, but I hope I'm not the
only one looking. In this area one sometimes has to stretch their
beliefs and believe for a second something might be possible. Fact
is often stranger than things fiction could dream up. Maybe you
really did see a small being in the corner of your eye.
About the author: Robert
Kreuk is owner of the
Future Sight Metaphysical Bookstore. Focusing on fact and not
flights of fancy the books are aimed at connecting the dots to the
paranormal.
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