How I Watch Fairies in the Woods:

I like to watch the fairies as they play in the woods behind my house.  It is quite a normal thing to see me coming and going, watching birds and wildlife, or just taking a walk.  They don’t think a thing about it any longer.

I don’t look at them directly.  That would frighten them away.  I watch from the corners of my eyes. 

When you look at something out in nature, you can still see what is going on around the tree, rock, flower or what ever you were looking at.

So, my eyes are looking at a tree, but I’m paying attention to the things moving around the tree‘s trunk.  The fairies feel safer this way and I still get to watch the fairies play.

Every so often a fairy gets bold and comes to sit by me.  I know this because I can feel the tickle on my skin or hear them whisper in my ear.  A fairies voice is not much different then a bug.  The main difference is their voices have a sound, much like the sound of a little jingle bell, mixed into their voices when they laugh.

If you are quiet, still and look like you are falling to sleep, you can look at them through your half closed eyes.  You mustn’t move your eyes too much or too fast and soon they with think you are asleep and start to play with your hair and try to tickle you.  Outdoor fairies like to tickle people and are fascinated with human hair.

I think that they like hair because it is longer than fur and stronger than spiders webs.  But that is just my humble opinion.  When I get a hair cut or clean out my hair brush I bring my hair out into the woods and leave it on the ground for the fairies to find and use. 

I do not know if house fairies like hair, and since my hair brush doesn’t get cleaned by my house fairies, I really don’t think they like hair much at all.  There are not as many house fairies as outdoor fairies so it is easier to find the outdoor kind to look at.

There is no one place that they like better than others.  Woodland fairies like the woods.  Garden fairies like to live in gardens.  Some like vegetables and others like the flowers best.  Ice fairies like the colder places to live.  City fairies like the cities and so on. 

They do not like to be caught.  A fairy that is not free will die.  So never catch a fairy and put it in a jar because it will die.  And if you do catch one by accident, please be sure to let it go as soon as you can.

A fairy will live almost forever if you are careful.  So watch for fairies where ever you are.  And once you get good at it you will see that there are fairies most everywhere.