fairies

by **jingofever** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:31 am

Here is something interesting: <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1881612,00.html">www.timesonline.co.uk/art...12,00.html</a> Though who knows if it is not just a clever way to keep developers out.

by **Sepka** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 10:29 am

It seems that the developers are going to be allowed to build so long as they leave the Fairy rock alone. This sort of thing is fairly common in the Scandinavian countries, I'm told.

by **marykmusic** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 10:50 am

Faries are absolutely real to me. In different cultures they have different names, of course. If anyone has heard of the problems that the developers of the Snow Bowl ski resort near Flagstaff have always had (and still have), it's because they're disturbing the sacred ground of the Kachinas. I have a niece who had two returns-from-death at age 5, one from being caught under a water slide and drowning and the other from overdosing on Sweet'n'Low. After that, she could see fairies. I remember clearly seeing and interacting with fairies until I got my "booster shots" at age 4 1/2. Then it all stopped. --MaryK

by **Rigorous Intuition** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:59 pm

I was out a few hours ago and dropped into the local New Age bookstore, and picked up a new edition of W.Y. Evans-Wentz's The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries. It's frequently cited in "Magonia"-like studies of UFOs and Fortean phenomena. One of the stories of anecdotal evidence:  Mr TC Kermode, of Peel, member of the House of Keys, the Lower House of the Manx Parliament, very kindly dictated for my use the following statement concerning fairies which he himself had seen: "There is much belief here in the island that there actually are fairies; and I consider such belief based on an actual fact in nature, because of my own strange experience. About forty years ago [approx 1870 ] , one October night, I and another young man were going to a kind of Manx harvest-home at Cronk-a-Voddy. On the Glen Helen road, just at the Beary Farm, as we walked along talking, my friend happened to look across the river (a small brook), and said: 'Oh look, there are the fairies. Did you ever see them?' I looked across the river and saw a circle of supernatural light, which I have now come to regard as 'astral' light' or the light of Nature, as it is called by mystics, and in which spirits become visible. The spot where the light appeared was a flat space surrounded on the sides away from the river by banks formed by low hills; and into this space and the circle of light, from the surrounding sides apparently, I saw come in twos and threes a great crowd of little beings smaller than Tom Thumb and his wife. All of them, who appeared like soldiers, were dressed in red. They moved back and forth amid the circle of light, as they formed into order like troops drilling. I advised getting nearer to them, but my friend said, 'No, I'm going to the party.' Then after we had looked at them a few minutes my friend struck the roadside wall with a stick and shouted, and we lost the vision and the light vanished."  Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=rigorousintuition>Rigorous Intuition</A> at: 11/24/05 4:00 pm

by **hmm** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 9:37 pm

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>I have a niece who had two returns-from-death at age 5, one from being caught under a water slide and drowning and the other from overdosing on Sweet'n'Low. After that, she could see fairies.<hr></blockquote> thats the first time i have heard this from someone else. a friend of mine who was involved in a car accident at a young age confided to me they constantly saw people/beings in the shadows.They were not described to me as "fairies" but my friend was not scared of them and didnt see them as being anything sinister.

by **Iroquois** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 1:09 am

I remember reading somewhere that an extension of a runway at Shannon Airport in Ireland was halted when the workers refused to destroy what may have been the remains of a ring fort, but they thought of as a fairy ring. I had thought it was from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries, but if so, I can't find it now. My copy is from 1990. Hopefully the index has been improved since then. In any case, it's the best resource on fairy lore in the Celtic fringe I've read. I have to say, though, what I believe to be fairies are not the diminuitive creatures, with or without insect wings, called fairies in Victorian literature. Maybe they are like other paranormal phenomenon, their appearance may be affected by the expectations of their audience. Or, maybe there are just different types of fairies.

by **heyjt** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 3:13 pm

Not that this pertains to fairies, but here goes: A friend of mine was walking down a street one night when a car swerved dangerously out of control and jumped the curb towards him. He swears that someone "in a green jumpsuit" jumped out of a hedge or bush and pulled him to safety, then disappeared. On an aside, I've walked through the woods in complete darkness and seen gobs of fungus glowing in the darkness like scores of eyes watching as I stumbled along the dark path...

by **marykmusic** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 6:55 pm

Leprechauns, Guardian Angels, Fairies, Kachinas, green-jumpsuits, Tau Tau Mona... they're all other-dimensional beings. They can choose to interact with us in the third dimension, but most of US cannot go out of this one easily. --MaryK

by **slimmouse** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:15 pm

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>Leprechauns, Guardian Angels, Fairies, Kachinas, green-jumpsuits, Tau Tau Mona... they're all other-dimensional beings. They can choose to interact with us in the third dimension, but most of US cannot go out of this one easily<hr></blockquote> Ive heard it said from people who I trust about such things, that what you will see, Is what you personally expect to see. Hasnt someone else said that already on this thread ? All such entities obviously vibrate at far higher frequencies than we can often see, hear or percieve. I shouldnt wonder that such matter forms a smidgeon of the 99% of matter we cannot normally access in our hideously inadequate and insensitive 5 sense reality. Throw in some fluoride, aspartame, and any number of other brain nullifying toxins, and the pituitary gland is on the way down. And then of course theres our peers <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"> I can well remember seeing fairies in the woods when I was about 4 years old. I ran to tell my grandparents, and of course my Grandfather gave it the old "active imagination" speech which tends to stifle such 'viewing'.

by **chiggerbit** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 9:38 pm

I'm a pisky myself, and a friend of knackers. <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)">

by **marykmusic** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 1:34 am

Pisky. I had to look it up. <blockquote>Quote:<hr>The stories told of Cornish piskies are almost all local variants of the stories told of the fairies of other European countries. The piskies differ hardly perceptibly, except in the smallest possible local colour, from little Welsh fairies, the Tylwyth Teg, the Daoine Sith of the Scottish Highlands, the leprechauns of Ireland, the phynnodderees and glashtyns of the Isle of Man, the corrigans, lutins, and follets of Brittany, and the brownies of Lowland Scotland. One may go further and find their near relations among the fees of rural France, the fairies and goblins of England, the kobolds, elves, and trolls of Germany and Scandinavia, and even the nymphs, dryads, fauns, and satyrs of Greek and Roman mythology. <hr></blockquote> From <a href="http://www.earthlydelights.co.uk/netnews/pisky.html" target="top">www.earthlydelights.co.uk/netnews/pisky.html</a> And knackers, I thought, was gypsies (although it is also a word for "bollocks.") <img src="http://members.boards.ie/colinm/Equal%20rights%20for%20knackers%20chosen%20canvas.jpg" style="border:0;"/> <blockquote>Quote:<hr>On the western-bound section of the N7, about a mile from Newlands cross in West Dublin, there were some caravans belonging to "members of the travelling community" camped on the hard shoulder of this three-lane carriageway until early August 2003. Now that they have been moved (or decided to move), leaving the inevitable items of discarded clothing and various other junk in their wake, a master graffiti artist has gone to work. <hr></blockquote> From <a href="http://members.boards.ie/colinm/Equal_rights_for_knackers.html" target="top">members.boards.ie/colinm/Equal_rights_for_knackers.html</a> So, has anyone else here heard of a tao-tao-mona? --MaryK

by **chiggerbit** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 12:16 pm

Some claim that piskies are all male. Tisn't true--it's just that we fems are shyer, less likely to be seen. It's amazing how many inaccuracies have developed over the centuries. This article is full of them. We are not the size of mice, and we are not all identical, as the article below depicts: <a href="http://www.cornish-links.co.uk/history-piskies-spriggans-knockers-faries.htm">www.cornish-links.co.uk/h...faries.htm</a> This one is a bit more accurate, but still...not totally: <a href="http://www.sacred-pathways.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Avalon;action=display;num=1092500515">www.sacred-pathways.com/c...1092500515</a>

by **Avalon** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 12:33 pm

The Cornish mine spirits are usually spelled "knockers," though knackers seems to be a variant occasionally used. The most common definition of "knackers" is dealers in old horses or dead animal byproducts. As in "gone to the knacker's." As used in the Irish sense above, a derogatory term for members of the Irish Travelling community (the term gypsy is considered derogatory these days too), due to their work wiith horses and recycling. The Tao-Tao-Mona seem to be some of the local entities in Guam, said to be ancestor spirits of the Chamorros. <a href="http://www.ghostories.com/uncorked.htm">www.ghostories.com/uncorked.htm</a> Regarding getting into the Otherworlds, I stumbled across an extraordinary account yesterday of journeying to the Norse Nine Worlds by Raven Kaldera. Raven's article on "The Etiquette of Alternative Reality" (expanding on ideas in an article by Ragnheid) gives some excellent information on safely navigating through utterly strange worlds that would also apply to this strange mundane world we sometimes find ourselves exploring. I highly recommend Raven's website. <a href="http://www.cauldronfarm.com/nine/index.html">www.cauldronfarm.com/nine/index.html</a>

by **marykmusic** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 12:58 pm

...means "first men" as I was told. We moved there when I was 14 and I immediately made friends with the old people in the village of Dededo. That's when I started collecting stories-- about the old ways, about the Japanese occupation, about chicken-fighting, very popular there. I've never had game chickens myself byt there is a small flock of Rhode Island Red bantams in back now... So the Tao Tao Mona are the local equivalent of the boogie-man, and why children shouldn't go into the boonies at night. Later, after that first year in the village, we moved into military housing and I lost touch with all the old people except one-- our maid. She was very spooked when I asked her about the shadow in my second-floor bedroom every night for about a year. It was the upper half of a humanoid, and it never moved. I could see it on the screen where my bed was below the window and it went straight across to the far wall over my little sister's bed. There was a streetlight about 100 feet away, but nothing in between... not in the daytime. Now I feel I was beeing observed. Or my sister was (but I don't think so because she never noticed it, and besides she's a banker and the white sheep of the family.) Piskies are better known as "pixies." It's a mis-pronunciation, typical of people outside Cornwall, I've read. And yes, "gypsies" is considered derogatory when used by others. They simply call themselves Romanies, or "The People" as do so many indegenous tribes. "Dine'" is Navajo for "The People" and the Cheyenne are the same way. --MaryK

by **Iroquois** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 3:44 pm

chiggerbit, The sacred-pathways link was broken. Is this the information on piskies you were referring to? Piskies See Pixies. Pixies Land of Origin: Scotland. Other Origins: None known. Other Names: They are sometimes called Grigs or Dusters in the part of Enland known as East Anglia, and they are known as Piskies in Cornwall. Other names are Pisgies, Pechts, Pechs, and Pickers. The term Pixie is sometimes used incorrectly as a generic term for all British faery folk. Element: Air. Appearance and Temperament: Pixies (Pixy in the singular) are small, winged creatures with heads too large for their bodies. They have pointed ears and noses and arched eyebrows. Their wings are shiny and translucent, and they are usually seen wearing seasonal colors and flora. Pixies are generally friendly but are extremely capricious and given to nonmalicious mischief. The little caps they wear are the tops of foxglove or toadstool, plants they hold sacred. No gender differentiation seems apparent. Lore: The word Pixy may relate to the word Picts, the early inhabitants of Scotland, whose spirits the Pixies were once thought to be. Like these faeries, the Picts would not touch iron even though they were superb metalsmiths. Excessive contact with iron can kill Pixies. These faeries are wildly attracted to flowering gardens and are often seen around Bealtaine. Their queen is said to be a tiny woman of sublime beauty who has created a spring world in Faeryland which few humans can resist. They loathe human laziness and have been known to pinch a couch potato until he springs into action. Pixies are trooping faeries who love playing, dancing, and music above all else. They like to have large gatherings known in northern England as Pixie Fairs. A few humans have come upon these revels and have been allowed to watch briefly, but never asked to join in. There exists an old Scottish folk tale about two fishermen walking home one evening on the Isle of Iolna in the Hebrides when they spied an open burgh covered with partying faeries. So entranced they were, that they raced over to join in. Luckily one of the fishermen remembered metal was a protection against these faeries and embedded a fishhook in the side of the burgh. The fishermen were able to partake fully of the festivities and still leave when they wanted. While Pixies do not seem overanxious for human contact, they hav ebeen known to be very helpful to deserving people. An old English folk tale recorded by E.M. Wright in Rustic Speech and Folk-lore tells of a woman married to a lazy man who would not go to his job as a thresher. disguised as a man she went to do his job, only to find it done for her when she arrived each day. She later found out that a band of friendly Pixies had taken pity on her situation and had done the work themselves. Legends about Pixie Dust, a sparkling material seen wherever these faeries have walked (often seen in cartoons and fatansy films as coming from the ends of magic wands), are as old as the faeries themselves. It was once believed that one could tell if a Pixie had been around by the silvery gold footprints they left behind. Some have tried to explain away this phenomenon as being either some type of naturally occurring fluorescent gas or else some sort of etheric residue picked up when traveling between the physical and astral worlds. It is more liely that the belief in the dusty footprints dates back to the first contacts between the Picts and the Celts. The Pictish people's greatest achievement was their extensive work in gold, silver, and bronze. Residual dust and small shavings from their efforts would logically collecto n their feet and be tracked about where they walked. The Celts, who first coined the term Pixie Dust, may have actually been calling this substance "Pict's Dust" or "Pictish Dust." This is from the Faerie Encyclopedia I found on the new discussion board here:<a href="http://sacred-pathways.com/forum/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=43&sid=30195908a2e7708ddb69060804491ae1http://sacred-pathways.com/forum/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=43&sid=30195908a2e7708ddb69060804491ae1">sacred-pathways.com/forum...0804491ae1</a> In any case, I'm glad to be in such good company. <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)">

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