A Fairy Encounter in the Peruvian Amazon: An Interview

This is my first conducted interview as an amateur folklorist, I'm exited. To view this post as a document click [here]
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        On December 27, 2010, I interviewed a long time friend, and fairy believer, Lili Noemi Castillo via chat, regarding her supernatural encounters with duendes (a generic Spanish term for fairies/elves) during her childhood.  I have known about these stories for quite some time, for Lili was my family’s nanny when I was growing up. I decided that as a folklorist, I had to officially record her experience. Lili claims that her stories are 100% real, and that she did not make them up; she tells me these stories as vividly as she remembers.

The Girl and the Water Spirit

In the southern boarder of the Unites States exists an extremely arid region known as the Gila Desert, which springs, according to Apache Legend, are inhabited by water monsters, that, just like the following tale narrates, are not "the monsters" the myths paint them to be.