Cottingley Fairies Fairies Fabulous Creatures Tales Literature

Cottingley Fairies Fairies Fabulous Creatures Tales Literature

Cottingley Fairies

The Cottingley Fairy Incident of 1917 was a photography hoax founded by Frances Griffith (10) and Elsie Wright (16), cousins, who claimed to have photographed fairies cavorting by the beck (a small stream or brook) in their hometown village on the outskirts of Yorkshire England. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's interest in spiritualism led him to declare the photographs as real and valid and he believed in the validity of the entire experience until his death. The hoax was not revealed until 1983.

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- Essay by Chris Willis published in the Skeptic, with links.
- A short description of the Cottingley Fairies.
- Essay by Barbara Roden discussing why Arthur Conan Doyle believed or wanted to believe in fairies.
- Information, history, photos, forums and fairies.
- Offering the photos as well as the story behind the affair.
- The original Cottingley fairy photographs were sold at an auction for £21,620 to British book-seller Simon Finch.
- Non-commercial Cottingley site for visitors and researchers of Cottingley village and Cottingley fairies.
- Excerpted from Joe Cooper's article "Cottingley: At Last the Truth."

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