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"While walking through the streets of Covington last night, I came across something extraordinary. Upon coming across this "thing" I was completely lost for words. I was both captivated and enchanted by what lay before. As I stared incredulously with my mouth gaping open in amazement, a myriad of thoughts whirled through my head. I didn't know if I was dreaming or hallucinating, I had never seen anything like it in the world before. This thing was a small luminescent figure about four inches high hovering many feet of the ground. This object was spectacular and took my breath away. It was easily the most beautiful thing I had ever seen with a blue aura emanating around. Suddenly my state of shock was broken by a faint giggling sound. Upon recovering my senses, I edged forward to see exactly what I was looking at. As I got closer and closer my mind was completely blown. I knew it was a fairy with its small body emanating perfection on all level and it delicate and perfect wing gently flapping in the air. Soon I got close to the fairy and ever so slowly reached out my hand towards it as if to touch it. At this gesture the fairy instantly darted away flying around a street corner. I sprinted after hoping to catch another glance of its beauty in perfection, but to my dismay it had disappeared. Since this encounter I have constantly been thinking and pondering about the fairy, and how I can catch another glimpse of it. I would sincerely love if anybody would be able to help me in my attempt to once again see this mythical figure that so greatly and eloquently captured my attention last night.

Here is a beautiful experience with Elves this person shared at the Yahoo Faery Oracle's website last year:

Elvenmusic at a funeral
Posted by: "Paul Linnenbank" paul.linnenbank
Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:49 am (PDT)

"Hello everyone,

A little while ago I attended a funeral. It was the funeral of a woman who was related to the place where I work as a musical therapist, a small institute for (more or less) autistic grown-ups in the woods near the Dutch-Belgian border. She had been ill for quite a long time, and allthough I didn't know her myself, she was held in high esteem by my coworkers and the inhabitants of the institute. It was one of her last wishes that the funeral ceremony would take place here.

Along the path, holding flowers, we formed a corridor through which the coffin would be carried by the woman's sons and their friends. I half and half expected one or two of the elves, who live in the woods, to have a curious peek at the ceremony, but as the coffin arrived, I was totally suprised to hear them singing. I couldn't see them, but the air was filled with the beauty of their song. It was the most beautiful music you could imagine, and not like anything I ever heard. There was no distinguishable melody or rhythm. It was like one complete choirsymphony condensed in one moment, slowly changing and yet not changing in time. To write it down would mean to unravel this one moment into separate lines, and then spread these lines out into 'human' melodies. But still, it wouldn't be the elvensong anymore, but just the translation of it into our musical language.

As I was so suprised by this unexpected presence of the elves and their beautiful song, I asked them why they had come. They told me they were attracted by the deep profound and pure sadness of the people present, and wished to honour these people and their grief, to honour them by singing. It seems to me that for the elves the pureness of this sadness is something of great beauty, since it is deeply founded in love. One of them once told me that this is true for all sadness, and that in stead of keeping yourself concentrated on your pain and grief, you might try to look at the love that is buried beneath it instead.

Like I said, this happened a little while ago, three months or so, but this morning I felt suddenly touched again by these elves willing to share with so much beauty and love in these human affairs, not for themselves, but simply for us. And that, in turn, fills me with joy, and sadness.

With my kindest greetings,
Paul"

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Creepy Critters –Imps?

by Season 2004 Ok, this one sounds crazy even to my own ears, but I can only tell the truth about what happened, and this is what happened. One day I was sitting in my living room on the floor cleaning and organizing my cds and dvds. Out of the corner of my eye I saw two black objects “scurrying” across the floor to my right. When I looked directly at them, they were gone. I shook it off and went about my task. A few seconds later they appeared again and this time when I looked directly at them I noticed that they disappeared around the corner towards the hall. I leaned over and glanced down the hall and there at the end of it were these two “creatures” “hopping” over each other. They disappeared into my bedroom and were gone. The doorway to my bedroom at the back of the house is the site of a lot of happenings that I will talk about later. Again, I shook it off and told myself my eyes were playing tricks on me. A few nights later I was sitting on my couch reading a book when I got a glimpse of these same two creatures again. From where I was on the couch I could see down the hall. They once again disappeared into my bedroom. The description of these creatures is going to sound very bizarre but the only way I can describe them is that they looked like a cross between a spider and a bat. Weird I know, but the truth. It had four legs extended out and then down like a spider but it had a head like a bat. I have never in my life seen anything like it and had no idea what they were. They were hyper little creatures though. About a week had gone by with no further sightings so I figured whatever they were, they had moved on. Unfortunately that was not the case as later that night they appeared again. I was asleep in my daughters room (she was at a relatives) when something woke me up. When my eyes focused, I realized I was looking right at these two creatures in the doorway to the room. They were once again hopping around and over each other and looking at me. I thought maybe I was having a nightmare when to my disbelief I realized that I was wide awake and these creatures were not going away. In a firm voice I told them to “go away” then rolled over to go back to sleep. I got the feeling that they hadn’t done what I said so just a few seconds later I turned back around to see if they had left. They didn’t and were still doing the same thing in the doorway. All of a sudden one of them jumped up on the bed and hopped from one side of me to the other. I yelled, “stop that” but for the first time that I had told something to leave (which I will elaborate on later) they didn’t. The other one stayed by the door doing little hops from side to side while my bedmate continued to hop around the bed, to the floor, and back on the bed again. Again I told it to stop to no avail. I followed this thing with eyes for about a minute just in shock that this was even happening. I could tell it was looking at me but I could not see it’s eyes. Finally, I got louder and said in an even firmer voice, “Go away, now!!” and they did. Just as I thought it was over and was laying back down to go to sleep, something from underneath the bed lifted up the mattress (I was on a bunk bed, bottom bunk, with only a thin mattress and rails) right at my stomach area. I came up on two hands as this thing pushed me up and watched the mattress come up with my own eyes. I got a mental image of the creature on it’s back lifting up with it’s feet. For the last time I told it to stop and go away. That was the last time I ever saw these creatures again. I had never heard, seen, nor read anything close to what these were so afterwards I did an internet search and came up across word “imp”. I don’t know if that’s what paid me a visit but it sure sounds like it to me.

i went on some of the links and they're very intersting

The Hummingbird-Like Faery

http://starelders22.ning.com/g…..ment135817

Reply by Francois Schwob on March 17, 2010 at 8:34pm

I would like to narrate my first (and only) encounter with fairies. This took place in 2004 or 2005 if I remember correctly. This was a period of tremendous change for me as I had decided to branch out of my profession (hotel industry) into alternative healing and psychic work. On a sunny afternoon, I was lazying around at home and was laying on the sofa in an altered sate (between sleep and wakefulness)…At one stage I became aware of a tiny "creature" buzzing by my head (just like a humming bird).It had wings and was flying on one spot, whilst feeding me what I can only describe as "nectar" into my mouth. What i strongly remember about this experience, to this day, is the feeling of Love and the "sweetness" of this nectar that was being gently poured into my mouth. I remember still tasting this wonderful "thing" even after fully waking up. This experience took me by surprise at the time as I had never been particularly drawn to the fairies till that time (though I believed in them)…sweet experience!..

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Boldylocks Permalink Reply by Boldylocks on April 25, 2010 at 7:04pm

What a beautiful encounter Francois! Well the kindhearted faerie are very sweet Beings– One of the things I most sensed with the faery I originally saw on that May 31, 2008 was that she had a sweet innocent nature about her- she was humble, sweet, innocent, yet had a royalty about her– she is a very beautiful Being I l have a special place in my heart for since then- and I even found out her name from a clairivoyant (BEFORE) I saw her. This Clairivoyant told me I would be seeing her a year before.

How that faery Being (and there are many kinds of these Beings from their Dimension) sounded when he/she was flying near your head reminds me of who I heard flying over my head last May 12th in the morning. May 12th is my birthday and I had invited the faery to come over and stay with me that previous evening- -because we were having unseasonably cold weather and I felt bad for them outside.
In my mind, I asked the faery that I had seen the year before to feel free to invite any of her friends as well.

That morning when I was almost awake, I heard a hummingbird-like sound hovering right over my head near the bed's heardboard. The sound actually woke me right up and when I sat up, I heard this hummingbird winged Being zoom away . I sat up in bed and there was noone there but I realized that the Fae had taken me up on my invitation for them to feel welcome from the cold. Plus, it was my birthday so I look at it as a birthday present from them :-)

Thanks for sharing your experience, Francois … God Bless that Fae for ministering to you like that- how beautiful :-)
hugs
Boldy

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Francois Schwob Permalink Reply by Francois Schwob on May 1, 2010 at 6:03pm

Hi Boldylocks,
Thanks for sharing your story…it is similar in nature to what I have experienced, hence it must be how they look like or want to appear to us (mortals!)…

Thanks so much
Francois

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Hi Kelley. Help me understand an experience I had. Between 1:30 and 2:00am, I heard noises coming from the living room. I went to check it out, and when I rounded the corner, light streamed through the window, which is odd because it’s always really dark in the backyard, even when the moon is full. The light wasn’t solid, and seemed to be in motion. There was a misty cloud, about one foot off the ground and about 5 to 8 feet high. It was colorful–pink, green, yellow–all blended together. Those colors streamed through the window. Within the mist were 6 to 8 balls of bright white/yellow light that moved together in a kind of circular, swirling motion. While I recall exactly the motion, I can’t put it into words. It was strange and beautiful, all wrapped into one. I was fascinated and not at all scared. I probably stood there for 4 or 5 minutes. I couldn’t take my eyes off it, and at the same time I couldn’t wrap my brain around what I thought it was. Finally, I walked away. When I went to see if it was still there, the backyard was dark. Later, I was angry with myself for not going outside and taking a closer look. It didn’t even occur to me to take pictures or videotape it. Hopefully there is a next time, so I can go out and see what it feels like. I’m sick of wondering about this. Do you have any thoughts about what I saw? A. Maria

Thanks for your note, A. Maria. I don’t have to ask your guides what you saw that night, because I know from your description and from the way its energy feels in your note what it was. You saw faeries, and I know because I’ve seen them, too. One experience was in an area known to host faeries, and another time occurred randomly, when I was a child. The mist you describe, the orbs, the colors and the elusive movement were familiar. As an adult, what I saw was very similar to the orbs and movement you describe, and I wrote about it in my Samhain series last year. A friend submitted his account of that same sighting on a website that chronicles faerie experiences. The siting when I was a child, I didn’t think of as faeries until I read your description of the circling, swirling light. All these years, I’ve wondered what I saw when I heard a noise and peered out the window of my grandparents’ home in South Carolina. I was about 7-8 years old, and saw what I could only describe as a carousel of light with lighted objects moving within the overall structure. Everyone else was asleep, and I remember sitting and watching it for what seemed like quite a long time. Eventually I went back to bed and it was gone in the morning. I don’t recall ever telling anyone about it. In my adult experience, I was as dumbfounded as you, not because I was a disbeliever but because no context I had suited what I saw. Even having fantasied about seeing such a thing and how I’d react, I just wasn’t prepared for how astounding and inexplicable it was. Apparently, we’re not alone.

A lot of people see faeries, and it seems that while they can be “everywhere,” they frequently aren’t. I think that’s because faeries are Nature spirits, and humanity doesn’t do a great job, on the whole, of looking after Nature. They can’t thrive where land is toxic. I have never found a good resource on faerie energy. There are books on their mythos, most of which don’t feel remotely accurate to what I have felt and seen. Most documenters try to break them down into hierarchies and describe their various roles and strata of dwelling… Such books tend to romanticize and attach channeled meaning as fact, which is fine in its place. I’ve just never found a single resource that really captured that spirit–no pun. My best teacher has been working with the faeries, themselves, sort of holding that body of collected knowledge loosely alongside my own experiences. I can tell you that they are hardworking and primal, they interact with the life force of flowering life to keep it vital, and they carry precious insights into Nature that few humans experience.

With that in mind, that you saw them wasn’t accident, and you can see them again. When I connect with the light energy that you saw, my sense is that it wasn’t just faeries, the wee beings, but also the passage they move through between their native “dimension” (plug in the term that makes the most sense to you), and here. Those particular beings have not always been in the spot where you saw them. In fact, the buzz I get is that they are looking for a new place to “put their portal,” so to speak. I’m not sure what the criteria is for deciding that location, other than a tranquil area fiercely guarded by a human counterpart. Could that be you? That’s your decision to make. The place that I saw the faeries as an adult operates on such an agreement. The caretaker of that land is an elderly lady who agreed to keep the land safe and well-tended, in exchange for visits from the faeries and the ability to communicate with them. It’s a contract she takes very seriously, on literal and spiritual levels. She’s acted in this role for probably 15-20 years.

I highly encourage you to explore your own intentions and ego around such a responsibility, not just to the faeries but to the land they are investigating. Can you, in your deepest heart, offer them peaceful ground to live on? Can you look after that land and keep it pure and thriving? It’s a package deal. I would suggest a few things to consider in your decision process: be clear in yourself for your reasons for wanting to “host” them; practice writing out an intention you would present to them outlining your responsibilities to them and what you need from them (within reason) in return, then present this agreement to them; learn to sense energy in the atmosphere, as they are primarily beings without dense forms; study an animistic approach to communicating with Nature, specifically learning to navigate the Middle World. The last two suggestions are based in that if you were going to host an exchange student, you’d learn some facets of the person’s culture and language. It’s only fitting to have as much insight as possible into the faeries, should you decide to share your space with them. They already know about you and are hoping to have a confidante.
Best of luck, A Maria!

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A Chinese dragon…very cool!!

By the way Lisa, I'm not sure if you've run across this or not, but in the "Community -> Messageboard" section of http://www.forteantimes.com under the 'It Happened to Me' section, there are lots of stories about weird things that happen to people, and things they see that they can't explain…and the topic of faeries seems to crop up moderately often. If you haven't been there yet, you might like to check it out. :)

http://www.spiritualforums.com…..28123.html

This happened when I started work at a social assistance office; it was probably about 3:00 in the afternoon. I was sitting at the front desk sorting out some papers for my supervisor who was out for the day.

As I sifted through the piles of documents, I glanced out the window that was near my desk. I didn't really notice anything unusual but when I turned my attention back to the papers, there was a loud thump on the window.

I got up, thinking that a bird smacked into the window. The thump sounded hard eough to knock it unconcious, so I went over to the window to have a peek. But what I saw wasn't a bird, the best way I could describe it was… a fairy.

It was humanoid in appearance, but having lavender colored skin and light blue hair with shimmering wings. It was lying still on the ground, the poor little thing knocked itself out cold.

I rushed outside to have a closer look (and to protect it from the stray dogs that sometimes wander around in the parking lot.)

When I got outside, I crouched down beside it. I was kind of cautious about touching it, so I poked at it lightly once or twice. When I made sure it was safe, I picked up the little creature (careful not to damage its wings) and cradled it in my hands.

About five minutes later, it began to stir from its unconcious state, my heart began to race, just realizing that I was holding something extraordinary. When it opened its eyes, I panicked for a second and almost dropped it. The fairy, or whatever it was, shook its head and flew off in the air.

But before it left, it looked back and me and waved. I waved back, still in shock about what I saw and had held. I am not crazy; I have two siblings, two loving parents; I have never done a drug in my life, and I have no family history of mental illness. I consider myself quite normal.

I still hope to see that little guy again someday.