Seeing Fairies: From the Lost Archives of the Fairy Investigation Society Authentic Reports of Fairies in Modern Times

THIS IS NOT A CHILDRENS BOOK. Its accounts of fairy experiences mostly from the twentieth century have come from business men and women housewives journalists clergymen bus drivers anglers gypsies school teachers university professors soldiers artists authors poets musicians sculptors actresses and many others who have seen fairies of various types in houses churches and sheds; in gardens fields woods country lanes and public parks; on moors hills and mountains; and even on sewing machines typewriters and kitchen stoves. In 1950 Marjorie T. Johnson became Honorary Secretary of a resurrected Fairy Investigation Society which had been founded by Capt. Quentin C. A. Craufurd and she collected accounts of fairies and also angelic beings from many of the members. In 1955 the Scottish author and folklorist Alasdair Alpin MacGregor collaborated with her in sending letters to the national press asking for further true experiences and many more were received. The result is this book published here in English for the first time. Marjorie Johnsons only request was that readers peruse the book with an open mind.This book is special because it brings together an unprecedented number of fairy sightings... There are here about four hundred sightings from around the world. In short this is the biggest single collection of fairy experiences ever amassed... Whether fairies are out there (author points to wood hedgerow and waterfall) or in there (author points to balding head of middle-aged witness) then they need to be explained. Marjorie gave us in these pages the tools to do just that. - from the Introduction by Simon Young