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	The Cottingley Fairies: an alternative viewpoint
		In 1917, Cottingley was a village outside Bradford, although today it forms part of the outskirts of that city.
		Frances, who was not yet ten, would often slip on the wet stepping-stones, and end up soaking her shoes and stockings, to the annoyance of her mother and her aunt, who both warned her to keep away from the spot.
		Few events in the life of Arthur Conan Doyle are as well known as the incident of the Cottingley Fairies; although general knowledge of the affair is usually limited to the fact that Conan Doyle was 'taken in' by fake photographs created by two schoolgirls.
	www.ash-tree.bc.ca /acdsfairies.htm (3020 words)

	COTTINGLEY CONNECT
		Cottingley Hall (then known as Cottingley House) was of more recent date than the Old Hall or the Grange, and in 1815 it was occupied by Miss Sarah Ferrand.
		Cottingley has been saved the problem, which faces so many villages in England, of two or three or even more village Bethels each struggling to keep its head above water, and it was in the first half of the nineteenth century that nonconformity seemed to show most inclination to split off into many groups.
		It was confined to the hamlet of Cottingley.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /cottingleytownhall/longhist.htm (11060 words)

	The Cottingley Fairies
		They seemed to be in need of something that would reaffirm their belief in goodness and innocence, and they found it in a series of haunting fairy photographs taken by two young girls in a garden outside of a home in Cottingley, Yorkshire.
		Note: The Science and Society Picture Library claims exclusive copyright of the Cottingley Fairy images, and in May 2005 began sending infringement notices to sites (such as this one) that were displaying the images.
		However, it is my belief that the Cottingley Fairy images, having been published before 1923 in America, are in the public domain (in America...
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /photos/cottingley.html (749 words)

	COTTINGLEY FAIRIES - in contact with Cottingley Village
		Elsie borrowed her father's quarter plate camera,which he set to 1/50s at f/11 for her, and after some rudimentary instruction on how to operate it, she went off with Frances into the area where the beck ran among the trees behind the family home.
		Elsie and Frances remained tight-lipped until 17th February 1983 when Elsie admitted in a letter of confession that the photographs were a hoax, claiming that they had drawn the fairies, cut them out and fastened them to the ground with hatpins.
		In 1972 Stewart Sanderson of Leeds University persuaded Leslie Gardner (son of E. Gardner) to donate Cottingley Fairy correspondence and the five glass plates of the fairies to the Brotherton Collection at Leeds University, where they are still housed.
	www.cottingleyconnect.org.uk /fairies.htm (2820 words)

	The Case of the Cottingley Fairies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		His championship of the Cottingley fairies did little to dispel the growing image of him as a gullible old man. However, he was by no means the only believer in elemental spirits.
		Significantly, in the years since the Cottingley fairies were photographed, research into `thoughtography' (notably Dr Jule Eisenbud's work with Ted Serios in the United States) and experiments in Japan have indicated that thoughtforms may indeed be photographed.
		To sceptics there is no question about it: the Cottingley fairies were cut out of a children's book and superimposed, very cleverly (for no one has conclusively proved that they were faked) on photographs of the cousins, Elsie and Frances.
	www.lhup.edu /~dsimanek/cooper.htm (6764 words)

	Conan Doyle and the Cottingley Fairies
		Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Case of the Cottingley Fairies
		Her 10-year-old cousin, Frances Griffiths was staying with the Wright family for a summer holiday, along with her mother.
		Geoffrey Hodson visited Cottingley in July and August 1920 in the hope of seeing the fairies.
	www.chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk /cottfair.htm (1362 words)

	Far Shores ParaPages: Revealed - another Cottingley Fairies mystery
		But she has never been sure if the print was a little-known part of the famous Cottingley collection taken in the early 1900s.
		Colin Harding, pictured, the curator of photographic technology at the museum, said it was unlikely to be a Cottingley Fairies picture because the figures were larger but was still an interesting find.
		A collection of artefacts surrounding the hoax pictures which were taken by Elsie Wright and her cousin Frances Griffiths in the 1920s is expected to raise between £3,000 to £4,000 when it goes under the hammer at an auction in London next Tuesday.
	www.100megsfree4.com /farshores/pfairy.htm (529 words)

	Fairy dust: the Cottingley fairies
		The famous Cottingley fairies were “photographed” by two girls Elsie Wright, 15, and her cousin Frances Griffiths, 10, in the last days of the First World War.
		To this day, the suburban area of Cottingley continues to get visitors and the official retraction, even though more than 20 years ago, is still not as a well-known as the hoax itself.
		The book was not solely based on events in Cottingley but was a collection of fairy stories and sightings all over the world.
	www.philipcoppens.com /cottingley.html (1950 words)

	THE CASE OF THE COTTINGLEY FAIRIES
		In the year 1917 at Cottingley in the county of Yorkshire UK two young female cousins borrowed a camera and took a series of photographs that appeared to show fairies.
		Hodder and Stoughton Ltd. It was not until the year 1982 that the truth finally emerged when the erudite author Joe Cooper interviewed Elsie Wright and she told him that the fairies were faked, cut from a book, then photographed.
		Both John and Mary took a series of photographs at Cottingley glen and in one of these there appears to be a fairy sitting on a branch over the waterfall.
	www.psychicworld.net /cf.htm (352 words)

	Unexplained Mysteries :: Cottingley Fairies
		One of the greatest hoaxes of the 20th Century, the Cottingley Fairies were the subject of a series of photographs taken by 16 year old Elsie Wright and her 9 year old cousin Francis Giffiths in the summer of 1917.
		It was here that they claimed to have witnessed Fairies, especially Francis, who swore for the rest of her life that they had indeed seen them.When asked about why they went to the brook one day, that Francis described the Fairies that she had seen there, and Elsie backed her up.
		Francis however, still maintained that she had seen Fairies at Cottingley Beck, and that despite the fact that four of the photographs were indeed fake, the fifth was genuine.
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /viewarticle.php?id=88 (288 words)

	Cottingley Fairies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cottingley Fairies refers to a series of five photographs taken by Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright, two young cousins living in Cottingley, near Bradford, England.
		In the pictures and prints available today, the fairies look flat, with lighting that does not match the rest of the photograph, as if they were paper cut-outs.
		The Case of the Cottingley Fairies at The James Randi Educational Foundation
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cottingley_Fairies (640 words)

	The Cottingley Fairies
		The Cottingley Fairy photographs kept everyone guessing until 1981 when Griffiths and Wright admitted they were fakes.
		He also had a reputation to protect and was therefore cautious about the Cottingley photos.
		The Cottingley Fairies appeared in the November 1920 issue of Strand magazine and were an instant sensation with the magazine selling out.
	www.wyrdology.com /fairies/cottingley.html (457 words)

	cottingley
		This is the world of the Cottingley Fairys.
		In 1917 two Englih girls, Francis Griffiths, 10 and her 13 year old cousin Elsie Wright, shared a house in cottingley, near Bradford, Yorkshire.
		Francis and her mother had moved there from Cape Town, South Africa; her father was serving as a British soldier.
	www.wendie1.homestead.com /cottingley.html (775 words)

	COTTINGLEY.NET - The Cottingley Network
		Cottingley or Cottingelaia was named after the Cota or Cotta family and means meadows of the sons of Cota but long before the naming of the land, it was the site of a proud and ancient beginnings...
		The tales of the Cottingley Fairies have been well noted for over 80 years by people of all ages and all walks of life...
		Browse through the Cottingley news archives and see our special Newspaper Clippings section kindly provided by the Town Hall.
	www.cottingley.net (229 words)

	COTTINGLEY.NET - The Cottingley Network
		Cottingley or Cottingelaia was named after the Cota or Cotta family and means meadows of the sons of Cota but long before the naming of the land, it was the site of a proud and ancient beginnings...
		The tales of the Cottingley Fairies have been well noted for over 80 years by people of all ages and all walks of life...
		Browse through the Cottingley news archives and see our special Newspaper Clippings section kindly provided by the Town Hall.
	www.cottingley.net /index.shtml (229 words)

	Cottingley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cottingley is the name of two places in Yorkshire, England:
		The hoax photographs of the Cottingley Fairies were taken in the Bradford town.
		This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cottingley (86 words)

	Arthur Conan Doyle, Spiritualism, and Fairies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		If Doyle had noticed this picture, and if he had the sort of perceptiveness he attributed to Sherlock Holmes, he might have concluded that the Cottingley photographs were fakes.
		Believers are good at seeing what they believe, and not seing things that challenge their beliefs.
		Compares the Cottingley fairy case to reports of UFO sightings.
	www.lhup.edu /~dsimanek/doyle.htm (2526 words)

	An Epoch-Making Event -- The Cottingley Fairies Photographs
		The turn of this century brought some of the most magnificent and devastating changes to the modern world in a manner so swift that the people were left bewildered and nearly breathless.
		While in Australia speaking on spiritualism, Doyle received a note penned by Gardner, in which were forwarded three of the Cottingley fairy prints for his expert opinion.
		It would be easy to assume that Doyle was as logical and as objective as Holmes, which contributed greatly to his reputation as an expert, but such a conclusion isn't necessarily the truth.
	www.feminista.com /archives/v1n6/wilson.html (3713 words)

	In Search of the Cottingley Fairies
		In the summer of 1917, 16 year old Elsie Wright and her 9 year old cousin Francis Giffiths of Cottingley England were asked by Elsie’s parents why they kept going to Cottingley Beck, a brook in the woods.
		Publicity spread and the fairies of Cottingley became famous.
		Francis maintained to her dying day that she did see fairies and although the first 4 photos were faked, the fifth one was genuine.
	www.chuckstraub.com /Letterboxing/cottingley.htm (632 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Originally a private house, Cottingley Hall been sympathetically extended and refurbished, yet retains much of its original character, including decorative ceilings and a panelled reception area.
		Cottingley Hall also offers care to older people with physical disabilities and those requiring palliative or terminal care.
		The home is located on the left hand side, on the same site as the Yorkshire Clinic private hospital and diagonally opposite the Bankfield Hotel.
	www.bupacarehomes.co.uk /carehomes/html/cottingleyhallnursinghome.html (404 words)

	The Faerie Chronicles -the legend of the cottingley fairies
		The Faerie Chronicles -the legend of the cottingley fairies
		The legend began in 1917 on the outskirts of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.
		In a little town named Cottingley lived Elsie Wright, 16, and her younger cousin, Frances Griffiths, aged 10.
	www.faeriechronicles.com /legend.htm (334 words)

	Library, The Case of the Cottingley Fairies
		While playing in Cottingley Glen, just behind the Wright home, the girls took what they claimed were close-up photographs of winged fairies dancing amid the foliage.
		The girls then took each other's picture with the wee creatures, and photo experts who were consulted said that the images were not double exposures nor had the negatives been altered.
		Of the nine remarkable Arthur Conan Doyle letters that the JREF has just received, four directly relate to the infamous Cottingley Fairy photos, and five to the famous "Margery" affair in Boston that involved Houdini.
	www.randi.org /library/cottingley (442 words)

	cottingleyfairies
		The Cottingley Fairies may not be "ghosts," per se, but their tale bears telling in any account of photographic trickery involving the supernatural.
		In 1917, Elsie Wright and her cousin Frances Griffiths were two young girls who spread the story that they had seen fairies.
		The Cottingley Fairies are proof of only one thing: that a faked photograph can carry profound ramifications, even beyond what its fabricator intended.
	www.fortunecity.com /roswell/shaman/348/cottingleyfairies.html (210 words)

	Cottingley Fairies
		You are in the Famous Fairies category - Cottingley Fairies
		The first photograph was taken in 1916 and showed Frances with the fairies.
		Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Case of the Cottingley Fairies
	www.fairiesworld.com /famous-fairies/cottingley-fairies.shtml (180 words)

	The UnMuseum: The Case of the Cottingley Fairies
		She had been playing down near the stream called Cottingley beck and had slipped on wet stepping stones, falling into the water soaking her shoes and stockings.
		In 1921 a well-known clairvoyant, Geoffrey Hodson,was brought to Cottingley to see if he could detect the spirits.
		The story of the Cottingley Fairies was put to film in 1997 under the title Photographing Fairies.
	www.unmuseum.org /fairies.htm (1249 words)

	CONAN DOYLE & THE COTTINGLEY FAIRIES CASE
		The Cottingley Fairies affair seemed to be proof of this.
		He published an article about the fairies in the Christmas 1920 issue of the Strand Magazine and soon was deluged with photographs from others who also claimed to have seen their own fairies.
		Conan Doyle examined them all, but saw none which appeared to be as genuine as the Cottingley photographs.
	www.prairieghosts.com /fairies.html (1143 words)

	COTTINGLEY CONNECT - in contact with Cottingley Village
		COTTINGLEY CONNECT - in contact with Cottingley Village
		You are now in contact with Cottingley Village
		If you would like to open your garden or help in anyway, please contact
	www.cottingleyconnect.org.uk (80 words)

	Cynical-C Blog: The Cottingley Fairies
		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.
	www.cynical-c.com /archives/003549.html (213 words)

	TLWCottFairyTimetable
		Elsie takes picture of her cousin with several fairies dancing in front of her.
		The fairies refuse to be photographed although they are reported seen by Hodson and Elsie.
		No hoax admitted, although she is fairly non-commital in her answers.
	solitaryphoenix.com /TLWCottFairyTimetable.html (558 words)

	The Cottingley Fairies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The village of Cottingley, near Bingley and Saltaire in Bradford in West Yorkshire's Bronte Country, is famous for its association with Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, two local schoolchildren who back in 1917 photographed what they claimed were real fairies at the side of Cottingley Beck.
		The pictures of the Cottingley Fairies confounded photographic experts and paranormal investigators alike, and drew the attention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes).
		Interest in this curious tale continues to this day with the publication of Joe Cooper's book The Case of the Cottingley Fairies, and a film Fairy Tale - A True Story which chronicles the events surrounding this strange story.
	www.bronte-country.com /cfairy.html (211 words)

	Cottingley near Saltaire and Bingley, Bradford, West Yorkshire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Cottingley near Saltaire and Bingley, Bradford, West Yorkshire
		The village of Cottingley (between Saltaire and Bingley in Bradford in West Yorkshire's Bronte Country) is famous for its association with Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, two local schoolchildren who back in 1917 photographed what they claimed were real fairies at the side of Cottingley Beck.
		Please click here for more information about the Cottingley Fairies.
	www.eagle.co.uk /Bronte/cottingley.html (103 words)

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