Fay’s Fairy Encounters

As a child, my parents and I would visit my seanmhair (grandma) for a month in Scotland during the summer. The last time my family and I flew to Scotland to see her was before I started junior high. After that, the visits turned into phone calls.

From the visits and phone calls, my seanmhair would always tell me about folktales featuring mythical creatures that lived in Scotland. She claimed to be able to see these creatures, but my parents brushed it off as stories to keep me entertained. By the time I was in college, I too believed the stories were nothing but fiction.

It wasn’t until after my seanmhair’s funeral that my encounters with the other world started to happen. My first encounter occurring later as I moved into my grandma’s cottage left to me in Scotland.