By Hank Simmons
Copyright 2011 by Hank Simmons
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This is an essay on fairy’s.
To read this essay you will have to flip flop through the many chapters. Or if you are just an anarchist you can just read it like any other book.
In this chapter we will explain the mythological aspect of fairy's.
Fairy's myths have been around since the dawn of spoken history.
And seemed to pop up everywhere in England.
The saying good folks arose because they reportedly are very temperamental at the saying of there true names. And fairy's in myth are temperamental and sometimes large creatures.
Witch is very unlike the modern idea of them. Fairy's were also vicious and war like,
And have been known to kidnapped newborn children for there own need, the mother suspects nothing because they according to myth were switch with a changeling. Witch takes the form of the taken baby.
The antidote to the situation was to boil water in an eggshell.
The changeling having seen this is supposed to say “though I lived a thousand years I have never seen water boiled in an eggshell”. Then the changeling is supposed to go flying out of the chimney or other doorway thus the true child would return the next night. A typical case of a story like this would be the account 5 in the sightings chapter.
They have also been known to kidnap full grown people too. And when they return, if ever they are usually dumbfounded to find time to past hundreds or thousands of years. And if that doesn’t happen they sometimes end up dead just from the exasperation of it all.
In the paranormal aspect of fairy has always been somewhat of the anecdotal kind. Unlike UFO’s and other encounters of strange beings, people who hear fairy reports are inclined not to investigate. Mainly because they already believe in fairy's or they didn't and so failed to investigate. The accounts of fairy's are rare but do happen even in the modern day.(2)
Take the 1st account witch is under the chapter sightings. It's a fairly typical account and seems to point to the obvious difference of mythological fairy's and there often reported modern counter parts. For instance fairy's in folklore never had wings.
And they seem to take more after children fairy tails then those in the past. The theory behind this is that fairy's are less solid than other beings and so can only take the form that we give them. (3)
Take the 2nd account which seems to support this. The common theory at the time was that the myth of fairy's was sprung from a single source. The source was according to the theory was that when the Celt’s arrived in England there was already a race of people living there. They being the more primitive people took refuge in the more wild country. Then the Celt's made the myth of the fairy's to explain these people. So was the theory in the 1940's, so according to the less solid theory it would make sense fore someone of this time to see fairy's as a race of primitive man. (4)
There is evidence for the idea that fairy's have something to do with light. For there are sightings of fairy's even in caves were there is a tunnel that floods with natural light. Take for example of the 3rd sighting of the well known nineteenth century author Rev Sabine Baring Gould. In this example you can see that the fairy's he saw had something to do with the direct sunlight.(5)
There have even more extraordinary accounts of fairy's by children. For instance the 4th sighting is an example of the less solid theory. As you can see what they witness was even more extraordinary than the 2nd account. But it should be noted that the possibility of human error by over protective parents are always a possibility.(6)
There has even been as impossible as it seems fairy artifacts. There has some rare cases were a shoe or coat has been found in a fairy circle, which as you know they are the mushroom's and other plants that grow in a ring. The circle which according to myth is the place where fairy's danced the previous night. There has also been over the centuries the legend of the fairy goblet. Which was according to the various myth was always stolen by human hand's. Though common they seem to be disappearing from some unknown reason.(7)
There has in folklore and other stories the interesting fact that fairy's have music. Though some who hear it become made, others have according to myth became great musicians by reproducing the sound. In these stories it is often reviled that fairy's invented music for humans. (8)
There has also been, though very rarely fairy photos. (See The Photos chapter ). Though often described as fakes the famous 1920 Cottinley photos had the attention of none other than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and many other big skeptic's at the time. The story as is often told is one on of many twists and turns. The girls who supposedly at the time took pictures of fairy's. Were in 1982 turned out to be fake the girls who were still alive said to there dying day that they had really seen fairy's but faked the photos. They said it was to trick the unbelieving adults into believing.(9)
The theory that alien abductions are just a modern day fairy sightings is an interesting theory and is why it is explored here. Take for example the last account which seems like a typical fairy experience. But many who study it say that if she had known about aliens instead of fairy's that her report would be no different from other abductee's. Though it could be pointed out that the people who subscribe to this theory read the scripture of mythology and fortean very selectively. It is also pointed out that UFO’s at least have some if not bountiful evidences for them. While fairy's have as stated earlier have always been anecdotal.(10)
(all 11)
Account 1
25 August 2005
Guy and Vivienne brown
They were driving home after a dinner out, when a fairy appeared in the head lights.
“About seven inches tall coming out of mid air, a gleaming white – silver robes and gossamer wings, simply beautiful. “Just like a Victorian fairy painting” was how they described it.
Vivienne was a teacher, the head of department of a Middlesex comprehensive school.
The fairy was seen on a small road with hedges on ether side, West Peckham Plaxtol, near Sevenoaks, Kent.
Account 2
1940's
recorded in the folklore of Orkney and Shetland.
By E.W. Marwick.
In response to something he had written,
he received a letter by Mr. Thorner of Luton, Bedfordshire.
Who had spent two years on the Orkney islands of Hoy during world war two.
As he told it was a “never to be forgotten experience”.
“One stormy day in winter I was walking or struggling along the cliff top at Torness.
The wind was high and howled about, low-lying swirling clouds part enveloped the land in misty rain.
At times the pressure was so great that I was forced to bend and clutch at the heather to retain a footing.
On one such occasion, on looking up, I was amazed to see that I had the accompany of what appeared to be a dozen or more wild men dancing to and fro. These creatures were small in stature but did have long noses nor did they appear kindly in demeanor. They possessed round faces, sallow in complexion,
with long dark bedraggled hair. As they danced about, seeming to throw themselves over the cliff edge,i felt I was witness to some ritual dance of a tribe of primitive men, it is difficult to describe in a few words my feelings at this juncture or my bewilderment. This whole sequence could have lasted about 3 minutes until I was able to leave the cliff edge”.
Account 3
Rev Sabine Baring Gould
nineteenth century author
As a small boy he was on the outside of his fathers carriage
on a hot summer day. When he saw on the back of the horses fairy's playing and running. He told his father who took him inside the carriage outside of the suns ray, and thus the vision ceased.
Account 4
group of children
1979
Nottingham's wallaton park
They reportedly saw a cavalcade of thirty brightly colored little cars, each with two gnome like occupants the children were mot frighten but nosily said that the cars chased them. The cars reportedly had no steering wheel and flew over obstacles in there path.
Account 5
Illustrations of the fairy mythology
A Manx women whose baby's mysteriously keep disappearing. On the first two occasions they were also followed by strange noses and disturbances which brought the neighbors coming. The baby’s were found some distance from there bed, dropped by fairy’s they explained. Soon a third baby was born and the mother saw it being levitated out of the room. She cried out, but when her husband came he pointed to the bed. And in the bed was a sallow wrinkly child, not like her own, and it lay naked with the original baby's cloths tied in a bundle. It lived on for a few years never speaking walking or defecating, and eating nothing but a few herbs.
Account 6
Popular romances of the west of England 1865
1645
Anne Jeffries 19 years old
She was working for the Pitt family when she saw, in the garden, six tiny male fairy's.
They enticed her with kisses and caresses until, suddenly, she was there size in an exquisite landscape.
Eventually the fairies fell out over her and she found herself back in the Pitt's garden, lying on the ground.
And here are the girls who almost turn the
world upside down.
Taken from the books
Rough Guide To The Unexplained 2007 John Michill Bob Rickard
(3,p136
,4, p137
5, p138
6,p139
7,p 142 - 146
8,p152-157
9,p146
10,p171
11p136 , 138, 139,160,171
Unexplained
(2,p415-425
10,p425
and the Elemental Encyclopedia Of Magical Creatures (1, p210-211
The photos taken from the internet.
Please read these books for a more in depth view of all things paranormal.