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Fairies have their fair share in Greek folk tradition.People especially in small villages still believe in them.According to a researcher there over
200 villages in Greece named after fairies(Neraida is the greek word).
The most common story is if a man steal her headkerchief he can marry her,but the moment she finds it she disappears.There are numerous stories about
men marring fairies and even have children with them.
Another one is in the nights when fairies dance in the woods mortals can watch them but if the fairies talk to them they mustn't answer back because
they will lose their voice or lose their mind(depends on the encounter).A darker vesrsion of the fairies is stealing newborn babies to raise as their
own or abduct young men to mate with them.
The closest i have come to fairy(if it was a fairy) is when i visited ancient Olympia and the locals warned me not to go in the river at night because
fairies dance there and when they are disturbed by mortals they turn them into stone.I did go of course but there was nothing there.
The next night me and my friends we had a very weird encounter, in the camping were we stayed, with a very tall being,couldn't tell if it was male or
female because it was wearing a hood.It was sitting watching us and then it disappeared into thin air.We started searching around but found
nothing.Until we left a few days later every night strange things happened.Strong air was blowing every time we went near the river and then
stopped,luminous shadows among the trees in the forest watching us and a continuous feeling of terror with no apparent reason.