I've never had bad experiences with them, really. We honor our locals, ask them to help us care for the land. I usually see them as glimpses, dark and light shapes moving. We invite them to come indoors with us in the Winter months, as their outdoor activities seem to be more related to the growing season. It's sometimes like walking through a fog along the floor.The entire court was dark/bad. It wasn't an issue until we broke up... that's when it got crazy.
She actually had a lot of issues. It didn't mix well with her beliefs and practices or sense of identity. Anywhos when it came to faries she showed me both the light and dark courts or seelie and unseelie or whatever they are called. I don't know how much of the lore she told me was real or how much was from fiction.
What I do know is that there was some bizarre things.
After we broke up a bunch of the dark fairies targeted me or at least the ones who didn't like me. It eventually stopped after a month or two but it wasn't fun. I hadn't ever seen some of that type of phenomena either before or after being with her.
Honestly I think she might of been using some form of trickery because of this, seeing as how it didn't totally reflect how I normally perceive magic and spirits.
Because the woman I was having lots of sex with wanted me to. I already was summoning my own spirits from my own religion so who was I to discriminate?
I think, historically, appeasement would be a more accurate term. People would give them offerings of honey. I don't think anyone would want to summon a fairy let alone do it if you go by the actual folklore. Presumably there was some instances where someone wanted to summon either a good one or an evil one to use against others for evil purposes. I wouldn't know in either case however.
One time that sticks out in my mind is seeing a small good fairy fly around for several days at a certain spot in her house. I didn't think much of it just thinking I was seeing some weird light phenomena. Eventually after a few days I remarked about it and she said it was a fairy and I didn't believe her until she was able to manipulate how it moved and everything. I hadn't ever seen anything like that before. Extremely rarely had I for even a fleeting moment had anything resembling "seeing" a spirit like we see the real world/natural world. So seeing what appeared to be one for several minutes was very unnerving.
This specific fairy could fit in your hand. But it was the only one I ever saw that could. Most could not and were roughly humanoid sized but I extra sensory perceived them as varying in height from 3 feet to 6 feet. By extra sensory I more mean it was like if you imagine or visualize something so intensely that you almost feel as if you can just almost see it, but you also "feel" it in a touch kind of way... it's very hard to really express as it's not a normal experience.
Once, my wife's ex called to talk about their son. At that time, we had a big planter in the living room that along with whatever plant, had a small windchime on it. The only time it would make a noise is if one of us brushed up against it. She was a bout six feet away on the other side of the planter, and I was a bout 10 feet away in the kitchen. I saw a motion moving from next to her down to the planter, and the chime rang, as if it had been hit very energetically. We both saw it, both heard it, and we both knew exactly what happened.
Another time, he came over to discuss their son, and as he sat at the table, I could see something down on the floor attacking his foot--kind of like a small dog pulling on a pants-leg. He never acknowledged it, but kept reaching down to scratch his leg. When he left, we thanked the local for its support!