If’n you were talking about the non-physical spirit world Fey, then I’d say that such curiosity is ill advised. They aren’t known to be nice.
Pama, curse me for a novice! How could I have forgotten to warn Autolycus?
Chimera has an excellent point. Many fae are dangerous. Some are just into playing tricks. Others are lethal. It’s best to carry a weapon of cold iron, just in case. Many faeries are repelled by holy items, so carrying a few is a good idea as well.
I’m still looking for my paper on the dissection of the faerie I was forced to kill after he assaulted me during a nightly stroll. If my findings can be extrapolated to other fae (not the safest assumption. But the only one I have to work with) the average faerie is very hard to kill.
Personally, I find a great deal of comfort in knowing that a domovoi (or lil grampa as I sometimes call him) is defending my house. Despite his diminutive stature and overall adorableness, he’s quite capable of killing a human being, and a variety of supernatural beings. Spaceba, little grandfather. Later, I’ll make you some latkes.
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Don’t assume that the domovoi is my only defense against the supernatural. I have multiple redundant back ups to prevent intrusion from demons, lycanthropes, faeries, ghosts, remote viewers, and more. I am a member in good standing of the College Of Etheric Sciences and nobody to mess with.
Hmm.
I just remembered that I never thanked anyone for all the replies. It looks like my best bet is a trip to Iceland or Ireland.
Oh, and ummm, were you being serious Doc Cathode? I have a feeling this question is insulting, but I’m not sure from which direction.
A quick addition: Schiehallion in Scotland (or to give it its full name Fairy hill of the Caledonians).
The other advantage is that it has quite a history to it, and a spectacular view as compensation if you don’t find fairies.
You could try Cottingley.
Heck, they even have pics of them, cute little buggers
Trust me, you don’t want to meet them. Haven’t you read Changeling: The Lost?
Crossroads are generally held to be good places to meet something supernatural.
You could get a daily dose of faeries, succubi and other supernatural hoi polloi if you read Pibgorn daily. Note: sometimes it’s NSFW.
If I want to have an experience with the fae, all I have to do is put my cold feet on her ribs at night in bed, then all kinds of magical shit happens. For example, I magically get the hell kicked out of me. YMMV.
Go to Ireland and look for a nice mounds with lots of brush around it.
Find another.
Build a house in between the two and “disrupt” the path.
I should probably warn you that faeries that inhabit these mounds aren’t particularly NICE to people that block them, but you may be able to get a cool million from Randi if they start tormenting you enough.
Autolycus I have a book called ‘Little People’ that I’ll gladly send you if you pm me your address. It should help answer the question for you.
It’s going to be like dowsing.
I asked the British Society of Dowsers if they could teach me dowsing and they said it would be fine as long as I paid for lessons. They gave me the name of their leading dowser.
When I asked if I could test him, he said dowsing doesn’t work if you test it.
I asked if he would apply for Randi’s million and he said dowsing doesn’t work if you do it for money.
I asked how dowsing would work if he was charging me for lessons and he said God would punish me.
So presumably faeries will only appear if you’re not looking for them.