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