In many fairy tales and legends, elves are mentioned - human-like creatures, almost no different from us, except perhaps in a certain fragility of constitution, a different shape of ears, but possessing magical abilities. Of course, a fairy tale is a fairy tale. However…
In one of the monastic chronicles, it is mentioned that at the beginning of the 15th century in Scotland, a man was found dying of wounds in the mountains, speaking an unknown language. He was thin, even fragile. Having recovered, the stranger surprised everyone with his dexterity in fencing and archery - he never missed!
Over time, having learned the language, he told that he belonged to the Elwe people. This people, according to him, lives very, very far away. One interesting feature: he was sharp-eared! It is known that the pointed tops of the ears are a sign of belonging to a satanic tribe, and the unfortunate elve would have burned at the stake, but what saved him, the wounded one, was immediately brought to the church. And as soon as nothing happened to him (the devil in the holy walls either would die immediately, or, at worst, he would be huddled in cramps), no one touched him. Unfortunately, there is no more information about the mysterious alien.
You can find such references in other countries. For example, in one of the family chronicles of Norway, it is mentioned that in the XIV century one of the girls married a tall and beautiful foreigner, an unsurpassed archer. However, he was soon accused of witchcraft and, in today's language, repressed. He lived in marriage for eight years and left two daughters, also distinguished by their beauty. But the daughters, in addition to their beauty, inherited the "family trait" of their father - pointed ears, which, of course, greatly complicated their further existence … This stranger called himself helve.
If you rummage through the chronicles, you can find other evidence. What is interesting is that different peoples, different storytellers, who often do not have any contacts, have been describing the mysterious Helve or Elve in almost the same way for centuries. And this, especially taking into account reliable (relatively, of course) chronicles, cannot but suggest that the portrait of an average elf was actually written off from life. Moreover, all the "magical" skills attributed to them, by and large, do not go "beyond the scope".
Start with their shooting talents. Not a single arrow missed the target - could this be possible without magic? Here it is appropriate to recall something from the experience of the Chinese master archers, who shoot no worse than fairy elves. This is how one of the wizards describes the process:
“I look at the target and don't think about the bow when I draw it. I put my entire consciousness on the arrowhead and keep looking at the target. In the end, it grows in my mind to an incredible size, it occupies the entire Universe. And I rush to the target - at the tip of the arrow. I know that I cannot miss - and I do not miss. Moreover, an arrow fired from a bow by a master pierces thick walls.
There is a known case when an arrow pierced almost 10 centimeters into a stone! That is, the flight is directed not so much by the bow and muscular strength of the shooter as by his will, his “qi” energy. Is it magic? Rather, human paranormal abilities.
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Or, for example, the "invisibility" of elves, their ability to dissolve in the forest, walk on snow and sand without leaving a trace. If we turn to the experience of the same Shaolin monks or ninjas who own the qigong technique, everything becomes clear. Experts of this technique demonstrate really real miracles (many times, by the way, captured on film, photo and videotape): they walk on the sand, almost leaving no traces, stand on a board lying on eggs, and the eggs do not break, hang on the "harsh" threads … Scientists cannot yet explain the phenomenon of qigong, but the fact that after mastering the technique, almost any person is capable of miracles is a proven fact. As for the ability to "dissolve" in the forest - ask the old people: they will tell you what it means to "avert your eyes." Walking past a person without him seeing you is just a kind of suggestion, a kind of hypnosis.
Comparing these and some other facts, we can conclude that the mysterious Helve are people or creatures that are extremely similar to them, according to some information, who can have children from ordinary women and possess abilities that are now considered paranormal. And meetings with them in the XII-XVI centuries were not uncommon - remember the numerous "witchcraft" processes, where pointed ears were called as the main evidence betraying a connection with otherworldly forces.
Another question is what kind of people it is, where did these elves come from and where did they go now? The researchers put forward two hypotheses. First: elves are the same homo sapiens, but possessing a kind of "extra gene" that allows paranormal abilities to be inherited. Maybe these are the descendants of the Atlanteans, maybe some kind of "branch of development", which by the 10th-11th centuries was almost completely assimilated with people and only in some hard-to-reach unexplored areas (and at that time there were enough of them in Europe and Scandinavia) preserved their communities …
Another version is quite fantastic and is based on a hypothetical theory of the discreteness of universes: in one place per unit of time there is an infinite number of non-intersecting universes. Of course, points of contact (intersection) exist, and elves are aliens from a parallel world.
By the way, this theory also explains something, for example, the eternal youth of elves. Perhaps, in different parallel universes, time flows in different ways, and it is not surprising that a person, having entered the world of elves and having spent several hours there, finds out when he returns that years have passed on earth.
Are there representatives of the Elwe people among us today? Maybe. But even if this mysterious race completely disappeared, dissolved in "ordinary" people, the "gene pool" remained: from time to time, children with pointed ears are born, some people display absolutely "elven" abilities … For example, American Kenneth O'Hara (newspapers repeatedly wrote about him), when he first picked up a bow at the age of 43, he realized that he simply “did not know how” to miss. He was examined by doctors, psychics, and it was thanks to the latter that he did not become a professional athlete: the psychics determined that at the moment of the shot O'Hara "splashes out" a huge amount of mental energy. On this basis, he was forbidden to speak. After examining his ancestry, Kenneth O'Hara learnedthat in the 15th century one of his ancestors - an Irishman - married a captive from the Helve people - a woman was captured during a raid on one of the islands off the coast of Scandinavia.