Seeing Fairies by Marjorie T Johnson

Author:Marjorie T Johnson [Johnson, Marjorie T]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781938398285
Publisher: Anomalist Books
Published: 2014-07-08T00:00:00+00:00

Fairy Glamour

“Glamour” (otherwise known as “gramarye”) is the art of illusion created by the fertile imagination of the fairies. One form of this magical art of glamour in which these nature spirits excel is their mischievous habit of leading people astray, and those who experience it are said to be “piskielated” or “pixie-led.” Surroundings, which once were familiar to them, become strange. They wander about, sometimes for hours, feeling lost and bewildered, searching for the path across a moor or a gate, which seems no longer there. Sometimes they find themselves in the middle of a fairy village or market, or see houses or castles which can vanish just as suddenly as they appear. It is really a harmless deception of the senses and not at all evil, though, at the time, the victim is under a sort of spell.

Miss Kathleen Hinde, of Dorset, was pixie-led in her youth. With three cousins she went to have tea at a friend’s house, and as they were coming away after the visit she remarked: “I have never gone through that field on the left. It’s a way home by the moor; let us do it.” Her companions agreed, but when they were all halfway across she had to admit: “It’s odd, but there seems no way out.” They looked back, only to discover that the gate through which they had passed was no longer there! The eldest cousin declared “Nonsense! This just can’t be. Let us each take one side and work round carefully. Of course there are gates—we have seen them.” The others did as she suggested, but on joining forces in the middle of the field they were much flustered because in each case they had seen nothing but a thick, unbroken hedge. By this time they were feeling rather frightened and were just deciding to make an attempt to break through the hedge, when one of the cousins caught hold of Miss Hinde’s arm and pointed. There, in front of them, was a large white gate, and with one accord they rushed through it before it disappeared again. Later, when this experience was related to the friend with whom they’d had tea, she exclaimed: “Oh, I wish you had told me; I would have stopped you! It’s the pixie field, and we are sick of friends coming back to our house, quite shattered, having spent ages trying to get out.” Miss Hinde told me she had never seen a fairy or a pixie, but she once caught a glimpse of a tree spirit (the experience is included in the appropriate section of this book).

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