Tales of fairies are usually left to the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault, but many ordinary people claim to have encountered them in the modem world. Janet Bord, who has written extensively on numerous supernatural phenomena, has amassed a startling array of contemporary eye-witness accounts of the Little People.
Reports of the Little People in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries occur everywhere from the "Old World" of Ireland and Great Britain to modern-day New Jersey and Alaska; accounts travel, too, from South America, Africa, India, and Europe. In addition to local legends, native mythologies, and folk memories, Bord also investigates the strong links between sightings of fairies and other worldly occupants of UFOs.
Are fairies beings from other planets or dimensions, fallen angels, or the miniature avatars of pagan gods? Whatever the verdict, the evidence for the existence of fairies is both surprising and captivating.
