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Frances Griffiths with the fairies
(photo by Elsie Wright) |
"Do you believe in fairies?" So goes the quote from "Peter Pan." "If you believe, clap your hands." Even the creator of the logical Sherlock Holmes believed in fairies. In 1920, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was taken in by a couple of Yorkshire pixies, Elsie Wright, 16, and her 10-year-old cousin, Francis Griffiths, who took the now famous photographs of the Cottingley Fairies. Although guarded at first, Conan Doyle found the girls and their families to be honest people and became convinced the photos were genuine. He then wrote an article for The Strand magazine using the photos as proof that fairies existed -- and his reputation eventually suffered from it. In the 1980s, Elsie and Frances confessed that the photos were faked but maintained to the end that they had seen fairies. Maybe they only wanted the rest of us to believe, too.
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