Thank you for your input Professor Ronald Hutton

When I was a child I was playing in the grass outside the Chapel, and saw a little man about a foot high and dressed in green, running through the grass. I ran after him, wanting to say hello, but as I got near to him he suddenly turned into a big black stag beetle. I'm 72 now, and to this day I swear blind that I definitely saw him saw him for real ‍️

Even chilling out at home with a blanket on his knees, he’s got his jacket and waistcoat on. Bless Ronald

...and how Delightful that the Professor makes himself available to sit for a relaxed, wry chat about faeries --as he sits in a fire-side chair with a blanket tucked around his legs...

I was staying in rural County Clare and daily walking in the local wood. A magical place with woodland flowers in bloom. I spoke to the nture spirits, telling them I came in peace from England and was walking gently through their wood. Next morning in that place between sleep and waking I saw a person dressed in a brown, quilted outfit with a smiling, healthy face, curly light brown hair and pointed ears. I just felt they had connected with me in the woodland and were greeting me kindly. I cant think my mind concocted this, as I would not have imagined a fairy dressed in brown quilted clothing!!

"I had a modest but significant amount of the local stout"

I had an experience in Norway. Was hiking a long route through many forests. It all felt very "enchanted". One day, I entered a wood and I started to see something I initially thought was smoke or fog, I rubbed my eyes. Then I started feeling very, very sleepy and I had the idea that I should just lay down and go to sleep. I had the sense that I should speak to the beings there, the forest and give my gratitude for passage through. I kept walking with all my will in full force to do so. When I reached the other side, my hiking partner asked me, hadn't I heard her yelling for me. Nope. Then she said she'd had the same experience.

It was a pleasure listening to him, it pleasantly took me into dream world,,