The Cottingley Fairies
A wonderful site that goes into detail about the strange case of
the Cottingley Fairies. BTW, what was Sir Conan Doyle thinking?
In July 1917, two young girls claimed to have taken photographs of real life fairies at the bottom of their garden. When the genius behind the Sherlock Holmes stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, presented the pictures to the public as evidence of the existence of fairies, the tale of the two little girls in Cottingley was immortalised.
Like a pebble dropped into the middle of a pond, the Cottingley tale travelled across the globe and onto the lips of millions. Every few years, the story is resurrected and once again enchants a generation.
