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