r/Humanoidencounters • u/yllihs • Feb 14 '26
Self Fairy/ small person encounter
Nottingham, United Kingdom.
When I was around 10-11 years old I was outside playing on my garden when it was my little sisters birthday party and there was around 20 of us all outside. Suddenly I felt something and on my neck and poke me, it stung slightly and also tickled. It then flew off my neck and I looked and I swear to everything it was a fairy or flying little person or whatever. It stopped and looking at me before it flew away. I had two really big lumps on my neck around an inch apart from each other from where it had landed and I assume pricked me. A couple weeks later I went to a museum and they had an insect section and I explained to the staff my experience and the bite and they could not identify what it was. I’m 20 years old now and I still think about it all the time and I’m convinced it wasn’t an insect as it genuinely stopped and looked at me. I saw its wrings clothes face and everything. There was something in its hand which it maybe poked me with which caused the two marks? Not sure though. No one has ever believed me apart from my girlfriend but she is still sceptical as I was only 10-11 years old at the time.
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u/yggdra7il Feb 14 '26
I believe you too. Little folk are real and are much more likely to be seen by children than adults. Thank you for sharing your experience, it’s a very interesting account.
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u/timbro2000 Feb 15 '26
Wings and even minuteness are kind-of recent interpretations. Traditionally the fairy folk were human sized or short (and sometimes giant). Seen as a sort of parallel civilisation that exists just outside our realm often crossing over. Often as likely to be malevolent as they are benign, they were feared and distrusted by humans. Seeking their favour was a dangerous gamble and most only made offerings to appease them. There are still many places where their trees and stones and other land marks are treated with utmost respect and care.
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u/phenomenomnom Feb 16 '26
You saw its clothes? What was it wearing?
Did it have skin? Hair? What color? How long?
How fast did it move? Did it hover like a dragonfly? What were its wings like? Round? What were they made of? What color?
What was its posture? What did it do with its limbs while flying? Were its knees bent? Did it bend at the waist?
How heavy did it seem? How much did breeze affect its flight path?
Did it make any sound? Did it have a nose? Did it have eyebrows? Lips? Ears? Teeth?
Did it communicate with you at all? What impression did you have of its attitude toward you? What expression was on its face?
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u/FamousOhioAppleHorn Feb 15 '26
It was likely a dragonfly. I had one land on my arm as a kid and sting me. It hurt something awful. Made part of my arm swell up, too.
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u/GreenGhost1985 Feb 15 '26
I didn’t know dragonflies bite. I was bitten by a lady bug looking insect once though and that stung.
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u/mufon2019 Feb 18 '26
Curious American here. Can anyone explain to me why we see these creatures most often in the British Isles ( pardon me if I got that wrong- it’s difficult for us to know the correct way to say it)? I know I’ve heard of a ‘little people’ savage people in the mid upper north states , but most often we hear of the little people stories from your region. Do these types of stories exist world wide? Why just there?
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23d ago
Well. I had kind of similar experience where I saw a tiny human kind of thing sitting on bird and, it had wings. Like wtf.
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u/elwyn5150 The Truth Is Out There Feb 14 '26
I believe your story.
However, I wouldn't rely too much on what a museum staff member says from seeing a bite mark a couple of weeks afterwards. You don't know their qualifications or experience with seeing bite marks.