The Various Types of Gnomes: 2. The Saci Pererê

Some gnomes are pranksters, like the mythical Saci Pererê who lives only in the Brazilian folkloric legends. Commonly known as Saci, this one-legged little dark child smokes a pretend pipe and wears a red cap. His red cap gives him magical powers such as being able to appear and disappear. Saci is famous in Brazil for startling people and playing pranks. One of his favorite pranks is to braid horses’ tails at night. Those who find their horses with braided tails in the morning know that Saci has been there, playing with the animals. He also loves to jump into small whirlwinds and spin, but don’t get him near the water. Saci Pererê can’t stand being in the smallest brook or the largest river. Ironically, he lives near the Amazon River.

To find about more about Saci Pererê and his adventures with the Kingsley family, you can buy "The Conjunction of the Realms (Part One)" on Amazon.com.

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The Various Types of Gnomes: 1. The Leprechauns

Gnomes are responsible for watching over the forests, the beaches, the dunes, the deserts, the mountains, and all the animal creatures that inhabit them. The guardians of the forests in Ireland are the Leprechauns. They are well known for their intelligence, craftsmanship and humor. Their humor was always present—gnomes find most situations funny—but ever since the Leprechauns learned to drink Irish beer from the humans and began producing their own home-brew poteen, belly-laugh attacks surged throughout the community. A laugh attack is synonymous to uncontrollable laughter; a belly-laugh attack is the same thing but “boisterous.” Because of laughter’s highly contagious nature, the Leprechauns’ humor is, to this day, at an all-time high. They are about twenty-two inches tall, or fifty-six centimeters, and live in small cottages usually located at the foot of large oak or elm trees.

To find about more about Leprechauns, you can buy "The Conjunction of the Realms (Part One)" on Amazon.com.

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The second reason why I wrote a book...

The second reason for this book: when I began writing, I wanted to reveal a world where neither children nor adults needed to have special magical powers to accomplish great feats. In other words, I wanted to unlock the power of imagination that lives inside each one of us. The Conjunction of the Realms introduces the young reader to a place where those who live in the realm of imagination and those who live in the world of humans can interact and go on adventures together to solve mysteries, defeat enemies, and create new worlds together. If, after reading this book, a young adult embarks on a journey of discovery to unveil mysteries, or seeks to better understand and know the invisible intelligence that has created us, or realizes that the creativity that lives in us came from the creator of all things, and that nothing is impossible to those who believe, then my second goal for writing this book will have been accomplished. Imagination and creativity are gifts that every human being is endowed with from their creator. I hope that "The Conjunction of the Realms (Part One)" provokes the youth of our world to not believe in limitations, to not ever second guess themselves, and to know that each one is destined for a great future, one that they can create with their imagination, one that will be free from the tentacles of evil and perversion.

Seeing Dark Hedges before I knew it existed

When you write, things come to your mind's eye first or as a feeling, and you try to put it into words. In describing the way to the Kingsley's cottage, I saw this road where the trees were embracing each other, letting a few rays of sunlight through. I may have described it as tree-tunnel. Well, while traveling through Northern Ireland via Google Maps and Google Earth, I found a location called Dark Hedges. It looked so much like what I had described in "The Conjunction of the Realms (Part One)"... Searching for photos, I found this one. Now the question is, do you think we can travel with our imagination and see things?