![]() ![]() Fairy tattoos may be as real as it gets for some.but we're sure if you look hard enough. Public reaction was mixed some accepted the images as genuine, others believed that they had been faked." Although these days we are quite used to photo manipulation through Photoshop, that just didn't exist in the very early 1900's and public belief in the camera's ability to capture truth was hard to break.apparently, many people believed that the photographed fairies were, indeed, real.all the way up until the 1980's when both cousins revealed that they had simply been cardboard cut outs held up by hat pins.īut still.the girls managed to create a bit of magic for many people, and they still maintained that they had seen real fairies, even if they weren't in the pictures. ![]() Doyle, as a spiritualist, was enthusiastic about the photographs, and interpreted them as clear and visible evidence of psychic phenomena. The pictures came to the attention of writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who used them to illustrate an article on fairies he had been commissioned to write for the Christmas 1920 edition of The Strand Magazine. In 1917, when the first two photographs were taken, Elsie was 16 years old and Frances was 9. You may have heard this story."The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright (1901–1988) and Frances Griffiths (1907–1986), two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England. ![]() Indiana or Kentucky or Arkansas or wherevergive us a ring. Which is probably why, in 1917, a media sensation occurred in Cottingley, England. Louis primarily serves Missouri and Illinois. ![]()
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