Unnatural and Supernatural Stories by real people

I heard a story about a young girl in South Africa that had seen a faery circle. She went to the beach for the summer and must have been spotted by a Faery queen and her troop as soon thereafter she started getting severe headaches. Her grandmother a shaman consulted the ancestors who said she had been marked by a Faery Queen and would be taken away to her realm unless a ritual was performed. In other words this would mean a human death onto a faery birth. The grandmother beside herself with fear quickly performed the ritual, with little explanation to the girl about her predicament. The young woman merely thought she was targeted by a pagan goddess as her grandmother could not remember the English name for faeries. Nevertheless afraid for her life she prayed hard through out the ritual. At the end she of the ritual she caught a glimpse of a beautiful land with a flowing river in which a ring of flowers sunk to the bottom. Was it Tiara na nog she had just seen? Without the ritual wou...

This is an extract of Chapter Two of my book Awake: The Chronicles of Chemmis . It is the first meeting of the witch heroine Lindi and her love interest, Prince of the Fey, Stone. Enjoy! Nivi Just as we neared the doors someone came out. I stopped dead in my tracks, eyes fixed on the guy that walked out. “Tall, gorgeous and notorious.” whispered Nadia “ Prince Stone, what’s he doing here?” I was too stunned for words. Stone, Prince of the light fey, what was he doing here again?   I had caught a glimpse of him a fortnight ago coming out of Manu’s house. It was   late and I was on one of my ‘night escapes’.   I narrowed my eyes suspiciously, something big was going on. The fey did not visit at all unless there was a problem and never twice in a fortnight. He focused on me, just as we stopped a few feet away from him. A burst of heat hit my gut, causing me to step back. Cool blue eyes, glared at me reminding me of the icy glaziers in the Arctic Circle. A flash of re...

Brownies are the faeries that inhabit houses. They usually live in an unused part of the house and work during the night. They help with house hold tasks like mending and cleaning. The only form of payment acceptable to them is honey and porridge. If not provide with this or taken for granted they may leave or get angry and hide things, like keys etc. I always leave a little honey out just as a precaution.......Nivi Acknowledgements to elfwood.com for image and Wikipedia

Lost Girl is a really good TV series about the fey. It has a sassy female detective and a gorgeous werewolf protector. Watch it on Foxtel.......Nivi Acknowledgements to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1429449/  for images

A changeling, is a replacement of a human child stolen by the faeries. They are faery children, and according to a story by W.B Yeats are able to talk. If they reveal their true selves they will be forced to return to Tira na nog. The mother in the story boiled egg shells, prompting the changeling to ask what she was cooking. The mother then attempted to ram a hot poker down its throat but lucky for the changeling, the real child was returned. Nivi Acknowledgements to: warseer.com for the image and Y.B. Yeats for the story from: Fairy and Folk tales of the Irish peasantry

" When we were on holiday in Cornwall my daughter and I came down a winding lane, and all of a sudden there was a small green man by a gate watching us. All in green, with a pointed hood and ears.... We were cold with terror. We ran for the ferry below... I don't think I have ever been so frightened. " This is the first paragraph of  the introduction from the book 'The Traveller's Guide to Fairy sites'. The book goes on to talk about 20th Century faery sightings and locations in the United Kingdom which are faery hotspots. It is an interesting read. To read the introduction of the book follow the link .....http://www.gothicimage.co.uk/fairysites.html. Nivi Acknowlegements to the Author Janet Bord and the website http://www.gothicimage.co.uk/fairysites.html  the source of the image and paragraph

A powerful Fairy queen. Depicted rather poorly in several stories like Harry Potter, but according to folklore she was one of the good ones. Morgan   was a beautiful and very powerful priestess and queen living around the time of King Arthur. She presided over the sisterhood of nine who lived on the enchanted island of Avalon . She was benevolent, helping Arthur throughout his life. Her demotation to sinister enchantress, came simultaneously with the denigration of Fairy by medieval christian writers. They called her a witch and sorceress due to the fear of feminine wisdom and natural magic. Nivi Acknowledgements to diane.gfxartist.com for image Source: Rosen , B 2008, The Mythical Creatures Bible