Do You Believe in the Fey?

[Argyll]

Simple: Do you believe in the existence of faeries, the faerie realm/plane of existence, etc?

[Mercury]

I saw a mysterious white, bright orb once, around this time last year. The anomaly took place in a parking lot around this time as well, just as it started to get dark and before they turned the parking lot lights on. This unidentified flying object zoomed in and out, in between and under cars at a rapid speed. The thing was about the size of a medium sized bird and projected a constant light at about the power of a flashlight. So it definitely couldn't have been a lightning bug or anything along those lines. Eventually, it flew into the sky and disappeared into oblivion in a blink of an eye. Not exactly sure what it is to this day, but one possibly scientific explanation is swamp gas. At the time I immediately gave it the nickname of fairy, since it reminded me of this:

[Pyramidologist]

Simple: Do you believe in the existence of faeries, the faerie realm/plane of existence, etc?

Fairies are rooted in real people who were short of stature, particularly the Picts of Britain but obviously exaggerated overtime. Therefore i consider them my ancestors. Scholars and folklorists such as John Francis Campbell, David MacRitchie, Edward Burnett Tylor and Walter Scott all believed in the ethnological basis of fairies. Likewise i regard all myths or fairytales as having a rational historical (euhemerist) basis. To quote Haddon: ''fairy tales were stories told by men of the Iron Age of events which happened to men of the Bronze Age in their conflicts with men of the Neolithic Age''.

[Pyramidologist]

I saw a mysterious white, bright orb once, around this time last year. The anomaly took place in a parking lot around this time as well, just as it started to get dark and before they turned the parking lot lights on. This unidentified flying object zoomed in and out, in between and under cars at a rapid speed. The thing was about the size of a medium sized bird and projected a constant light at about the power of a flashlight. So it definitely couldn't have been a lightning bug or anything along those lines. Eventually, it flew into the sky and disappeared into oblivion in a blink of an eye. Not exactly sure what it is to this day, but one possibly scientific explanation is swamp gas. At the time I immediately gave it the nickname of fairy, since it reminded me of this:

could have been an eye floater -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater

^ These are actually on your eye itself, but make it look as if they are not. Most people who claim to see UFO's are actually just looking at floaters on their own eye. They affect 70% of people. I have loads of them.

[Piparskeggr]

In my understanding, the Fey folk would be akin to the Alfar, Tomte and Fetches within the Northern Tradition.

Having had encounters with such (I firmly believe), I am definitely in the camp of those who "know" of other beings than those which are usually acknowledged.

[Argyll]

Fairies are rooted in real people who were short of stature, particularly the Picts of Britain but obviously exaggerated overtime. Therefore i consider them my ancestors. Scholars and folklorists such as John Francis Campbell, David MacRitchie, Edward Burnett Tylor and Walter Scott all believed in the ethnological basis of fairies. Likewise i regard all myths or fairytales as having a rational historical (euhemerist) basis. To quote Haddon: ''fairy tales were stories told by men of the Iron Age of events which happened to men of the Bronze Age in their conflicts with men of the Neolithic Age''.

Not all Faeries are short and small in stature. You have faeries from all shapes an sizes. From the tiniest sprites, to smallish piskies, to the medium nymphs, gancanaghs, and elves, to the giant trolls and giants.

This whole "Picts were pygmies" is ridiculoius. Sorry.

[Argyll]

I saw a mysterious white, bright orb once, around this time last year. The anomaly took place in a parking lot around this time as well, just as it started to get dark and before they turned the parking lot lights on. This unidentified flying object zoomed in and out, in between and under cars at a rapid speed. The thing was about the size of a medium sized bird and projected a constant light at about the power of a flashlight. So it definitely couldn't have been a lightning bug or anything along those lines. Eventually, it flew into the sky and disappeared into oblivion in a blink of an eye. Not exactly sure what it is to this day, but one possibly scientific explanation is swamp gas. At the time I immediately gave it the nickname of fairy, since it reminded me of this:

The way you described it, it does not sound like swamp gas at ALL. Science cannot prove everything, remember that.

[Scrapple]

I voted no but I am a rationalist. If one can show proof one day then I will accept their existence. Don't have a problem with others believing in them though.

[Óttar]

I saw a mysterious white, bright orb once, around this time last year. The anomaly took place in a parking lot around this time as well, just as it started to get dark and before they turned the parking lot lights on. This unidentified flying object zoomed in and out, in between and under cars at a rapid speed. The thing was about the size of a medium sized bird and projected a constant light at about the power of a flashlight. So it definitely couldn't have been a lightning bug or anything along those lines. Eventually, it flew into the sky and disappeared into oblivion in a blink of an eye. Not exactly sure what it is to this day, but one possibly scientific explanation is swamp gas. At the time I immediately gave it the nickname of fairy, since it reminded me of this:

Was it a flashlight?

[Argyll]

I voted no but I am a rationalist. If one can show proof one day then I will accept their existence. Don't have a problem with others believing in them though.

You can't expect them to just come up and show them to yourselves. They just aren't like that. They show themselves to us when they want to.