Alissa
I'm quite convinced that faeries can take various animal/insect forms but it can be damn hard to tell the difference without seeing some behavior from the animal that doesn't fit their normal patterns (just as you describe with your frog).
There have been times in the dead of winter, and I mean not a day over 30 degress for 6+ weeks on the mountaintop, when I've suddenly seen a hugeass black fly buzzing around my house and gone "hmmmmmmmm that ain't no fly, that's a faery" to myself.
I've seen a butterfly stick around to play with my son when he was a toddler, chasing him and then letting him chase her, for literally almost an hour... butterflies don't do this for an hour, they might flit about in a playful fashion but after a minute or two, five at most, they're gone. This one never left the yard and kept landing on him and then fluttering around his face while he giggled and clumsily tried to catch her. She'd fly a few feet away, and then hover right back. Not once or twice, but yeah... for almost an hour. It was amazing.
I've had a cricket jumping on my foot on the day I pulled the Bodacious Bodach for my faery card and "just know" that it was Bodach saying hello with his capricious, leaping energy.
And I've secretly marvelled at how certain spiders (a personal totem of mine) will show up at the strangest points in time and places, not to mention how many times ravens (my primary totem) have dropped by to give me messages. Faeries in animal form? I can never say for sure, but when you live on the mountain for as many years as I have, you come to realize there are your average animal sightings... and then, there are moments that somehow transcend the average.
But I've always been a believer... and I don't mind if the "normals" think I'm daft.
There have been times in the dead of winter, and I mean not a day over 30 degress for 6+ weeks on the mountaintop, when I've suddenly seen a hugeass black fly buzzing around my house and gone "hmmmmmmmm that ain't no fly, that's a faery" to myself.
I've seen a butterfly stick around to play with my son when he was a toddler, chasing him and then letting him chase her, for literally almost an hour... butterflies don't do this for an hour, they might flit about in a playful fashion but after a minute or two, five at most, they're gone. This one never left the yard and kept landing on him and then fluttering around his face while he giggled and clumsily tried to catch her. She'd fly a few feet away, and then hover right back. Not once or twice, but yeah... for almost an hour. It was amazing.
I've had a cricket jumping on my foot on the day I pulled the Bodacious Bodach for my faery card and "just know" that it was Bodach saying hello with his capricious, leaping energy.
And I've secretly marvelled at how certain spiders (a personal totem of mine) will show up at the strangest points in time and places, not to mention how many times ravens (my primary totem) have dropped by to give me messages. Faeries in animal form? I can never say for sure, but when you live on the mountain for as many years as I have, you come to realize there are your average animal sightings... and then, there are moments that somehow transcend the average.
But I've always been a believer... and I don't mind if the "normals" think I'm daft.