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There are many tales of
the Elves being a tiny, fairy folk, who flirt about the
countryside, tending to flowers and birds and butterflies. There
are tales of fairy folk dancing by the light of the moon on
toadstools, or holding hands and dancing in a circle in the a
clearing in the woods. The truth is that the Elves are a merry
folk who do dance and sing and often can be seen in the forest
or within mounds, singing, drinking golden ale and making merry.
They are the farmers of the wilderness, caring for and nurturing
the natural landscape. All who love, nature and care about the
environment should seek the help of the Elf folk. They are the
true environmentalist. But the image of them as a tiny folk is
the result of an illusion.
Many people who have been
fortunate enough to have seen the Elves usually see them as
small balls of light. The Elves are a spiritual race, and often,
especially at night, one cannot see their entire form because of
their inner illumination - the Light-Force - shining through
them. They might appear as a small ball of light that shines
very intensively. In mediaeval times they were referred to as
Will-o-wisps - tiny sprites or light Elves who misled travelers
at night. They can easily be mistaken for what is known as ball
lightning or swamp gas. Many people who lack an understanding of
the natural world like to claim they saw a UFO or flying saucer,
when they see these lights at night.
Elves love to celebrate
the beauty of nature. On a fine, clear and cool summer or spring
day, they will gather in a clearing in the forest, or a dell, or
even upon a hill or mound and engage in what is known as an
Elf-dance or fairy-dance. They will dance about in a circle that
will appear like lights floating in the air. These dances are
usually accompanied by Elf-music, which is irresistible to
anyone who hears it. Stories were told of people being carried
away or unable to control themselves after hearing Elf-music.
Though there are tales of people disappearing, Elves are not
normally dangerous, so long as they are respected. If anyone did
disappear, it was not by force. Sometimes the Elves chose a
human to remain with them and live in Alfheim.
In Germany, it was the
custom for people to make sacrifices to the Elven folk that
consisted of a bowl of milk and honey. It was usually left out
at night. This was called the Alf-blot. Christians first
discouraged people to ceased these sacrifices, telling them that
the Elves were demons, but because they were unable to stop
people from completely making offerings to these nature spirits,
they were eventually associated with angels. This is closer to
the truth. The Elves are like angels in that they are not Gods,
but associated with the Gods, and they do help and befriend
mortals who respect them.
Many people in Europe
worshiped the Elves as household divinities. This was true
throughout Europe, from Scandinavia to ancient Rome, where they
were called lares. In Scandinavia they were sometimes called
gnomes. These divinities were helpful if respected and could be
counted on to protect the household from disease and harm.
7. The Dover Demon
The
last thing a 17 year old Bill Bartlett expected to see when
driving with two friends through Dover, Massachusetts, at around
10:30 PM on April 21, 1977 was a creature from another
dimension. Yet that is what he may have done, at least in the
opinion of some investigators-and judging from Bill's
description of what he saw, they could have a point! Driving
along, his car's headlights suddenly illuminated a peculiar
entity picking its way along a stone wall at the side of the
road. As can be seen from the picture that Bill later prepared,
which is reproduced here, the creature had a disproportionately
large head, shaped like a water melon, with two big, protruding
eyes that glowed orange, but it did not seem to have a mouth,
nose or ears.
Its body was small, its neck and limbs were long and thin, and
its fingers and toes were slender and supple. The creature
appeared to be hairless, but it's peach-colored skin was rough
in texture. It stood about 1 meter (3-4 feet) high, and was
observed only by Bill (his two friends were not looking in the
right direction to see it). Unknown to Bill, however, his
strange sighting would soon be substantiated by an entirely
independent eyewitness. Less than two hours later, 15 year old
John Baxter was walking home little more than a mile from the
locality of Bill's encounter when he saw a strange figure coming
towards him. After receiving no reply when he called out to it,
John paused, and as he did so the figure ran away down a gully.
John chased after it and when he was about 9 meters (30 feet)
away, he could see it clearly, standing upright on its hind legs
and gripping the trunk of a tree. When he spied its brightly
glowing eyes staring at him from an otherwise featureless face,
however, John decided to let caution supersede curiosity and he
walked briskly back to the road. Once he reached home, he too
made a visual record of what he had witnessed, and as can be
seen here, his wholly independent illustration corresponds very
closely indeed with Bill's. At around midnight on April 22, what
writer Loren Coleman has subsequently called "The Dover Demon"
was seen again, this time by 15 year old Abby Brabham while
being driven home by Will Taintor, 18, who only spied it very
briefly. Abby's description matched those of Bill and John in
every respect except one: when she observed it, its eyes were
glowing green, not orange. And thus ended the curious case of
the Dover Demon, for it has never been reported again and has
never been satisfactorily identified. If the descriptions of it
are accurate-and they are certainly very consistent-the Dover
Demon does not resemble any species known to science, either
from North America or elsewhere. It may not, however, be
entirely unknown. The Cree nation of eastern Canada speak of a
mysterious race of pygmy entities called the Mannegishi, who
delight in playing tricks upon travelers. According to the Cree,
the Mannegishi have round heads, long thin legs, arms with six
fingers on each hand, and they live between rocks in the rapids.
Excluding the finger count discrepancy, this description is
reminiscent to the Dover Demon.
8. The Loveland Lizard
Too
often cryptozoology delves into just hairy bipeds or lake
monsters. Let’s not forget Ohio’s own Loveland Frog: sighted
more often than Chessie or Champ of the Chesapeake Lake and Lake
Champlina, respectively, and a hell of a lot cuter than any
Yeti.
The Loveland Frog was
first spotted in the early morning of March 3, 1972. A Loveland
police officer was driving on Riverside Rd when he saw what
appeared to him like a dog by the side of the road. As the
pulled over, this “dog” suddenly stood up to introduce itself as
a lizard-like creature about 4 feet tall. When the lights hit
it, the creature darted into a nearby river.
Two weeks later, another
LPD officer saw some animal dead on the side of the road. Same
deal: pull over, check it out, creature gets up, head of river.
But this cop tried to place a cap in the frog’s ass. But missed.
Though neither officer
ever got that close, both could easily describe the big eyes
shining in headlights, a tail, leathery skin, and the
unquestionable appearance of a frog.
The
last thing a 17 year old Bill Bartlett expected to see when
driving with two friends through Dover, Massachusetts, at around
10:30 PM on April 21, 1977 was a creature from another
dimension. Yet that is what he may have done, at least in the
opinion of some investigators-and judging from Bill's
description of what he saw, they could have a point! Driving
along, his car's headlights suddenly illuminated a peculiar
entity picking its way along a stone wall at the side of the
road. As can be seen from the picture that Bill later prepared,
which is reproduced here, the creature had a disproportionately
large head, shaped like a water melon, with two big, protruding
eyes that glowed orange, but it did not seem to have a mouth,
nose or ears.
