“The Pointing Fairy”

 

Around August/September 1991, in Cornwall UK, whilst driving down a country road with hedgerows either side, travelling at a speed of around 45-50 miles per hour. Something compelled me to look into the hedgerow.

I saw a brown leathery-skinned, very angry-looking old man, standing about two and a half feet high, completely naked apart from a loin cloth type clothing. He was pointing right at me with his index finger. What happened in an instant seemed to last forever.

I braked sharply only to realise that the road was falling sharply towards a sea wall. If I hadn’t braked I would have driven over the sea wall and over the cliff face as I was not on the road I thought I was. I had my then wife and baby son in the car with me. I consider this “Pixie” to have saved our lives.

[He had] an old looking face with a hooked nose and large ears. He was bald or had very little hair. He had noticeably large hands. Its appearance was of something that would be described in a nursery rhyme. I just seemed to know what it was upon seeing it! It did frighten me enough to not want to see another.

The respondent used the word “Pixie” in this case instead of “fairy,” and if you’re interested, I have included a bit on Pixies below.

Pixies:

Also called Piskies, they can appear as old men clad in green, and are generally friendly, although they are fond of leading travelers astray in forests. In fact they’re so fond of this that to find oneself lost in a familiar forest is known as being “Pixie-led.”

Pixies also create fairy rings. Setting foot inside one can grant a person the ability to see fairies, or it might cause him to become lost in fairyland forever.