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	Anomalies Article: The Cottingley Fairies
		When the film was developed later in her father's dark room, Elsie's parents were in for a surprise; the picture that she had taken was of Frances...
		with a troop of fairies dancing in front of her.
		The results were three more photos of the fairies; the last to be made, for shortly after Elsie and Frances moved away from one another and stopped seeing fairies.
	www.anomalyinfo.com /articles/sa00017.shtml (412 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.
		The photos showed the fairies as small humans with period style haircuts, dressed in filmy gowns, and with large wings on their backs.
		The Case of the Cottingley Fairies at The James Randi Educational Foundation
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cottingley_Fairies (540 words)

	Cottingley Fairies: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Cottingley Fairies were the invention of Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Cottingley is the name of two places in yorkshire, england...
		A fairy, or faery, is a creature from stories and mythology, often portrayed in art and literature as a minuscule humanoid with insect-like wings....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/cottingley_fairies.htm (963 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.
		The lecture was on fairy life and Polly mentioned that her daughter and a niece had taken some photographs of fairy.
		With a pull of the elastic, the fairies would fall backwards from their slots in the frame, thus providing a sense of “fading” when the camera caught the motion; they were “dancing”.
	www.philipcoppens.com /cottingley.html (1950 words)

	COTTINGLEY FAIRIES - in contact with Cottingley Village
		In Gilstead Crags there was an opening in the rocks known as "Fairies Hole", and it was said that the tiny creatures used to trip and dance and play their merry antics in the bright moonlight.
		He investigated the whole story and Colin Wilson in the foreword to the book states that it is ";as near as we shall ever come to the complex truth behind the case of the Cottingley Fairies";.
		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 (2993 words)

	fairies
		A fairy is a mythical being of folklore and romance.
		Fairies should not be confused with gnomes, which are also mythical diminutive humans but are deformed and live underground.
		The Case of the Cottingley Fairies by James Randi
	www.skepdic.com /fairies.html (474 words)

	Unexplained Mysteries :: Cottingley Fairies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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 (296 words)

	Anomalies Article: The Cottingley Fairies
		When the film was developed later in her father's dark room, Elsie's parents were in for a surprise; the picture that she had taken was of Frances...
		Of the people who believed the fairies were real, the most prominant and vocal was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes.
		The results were three more photos of the fairies; the last to be made, for shortly after Elsie and Frances moved away from one another and stopped seeing fairies.
	anomalyinfo.com /articles/sa00017.shtml (412 words)

	The Cottingley Fairies
		It was not until 1978 that a researcher noticed that the fairies in the pictures were almost identical to fairy figures in a children's book called Princess Mary's Gift Book, which had been published in 1915 shortly before the girls took the photographs.
		To the modern eye the fairies in the photographs seem quite obviously to be paper cutouts, making it all the more incredible that the controversy surrounding them lasted so long.
		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)

	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.
		The lecture that night was on `fairy life', and Polly mentioned that fairy photos had been taken by her daughter and niece.
		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)

	The Cottingley Fairies: an alternative viewpoint
		It is often assumed that Conan Doyle's readiness to believe in the existence of fairies sprang from his conversion to Spiritualism, which was itself a direct result of the death of his much-loved eldest son Kingsley, who died as a result of pneumonia.
		Dick Doyle had always loved folklore and legends, elves, goblins, fairies, and sprites; he wrote in his journal that when he was young, he was kept awake by visions of fairies and gnomes, which he could not stay awake long enough to draw.
		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)

	CONAN DOYLE & THE COTTINGLEY FAIRIES CASE
		The Cottingley Fairies affair seemed to be proof of this.
		It was at a local meeting of the society -- which incidentally was a lecture on fairies of all things -- that Polly confided to her friends about her daughter, her niece and the photographs of the fairies.
		The third was of a leaping fairy that the girls claimed was captured on film during its fifth leap.
	www.prairieghosts.com /fairies.html (1143 words)

	The Case of the Cottingley Fairies
		The lecture that night was on `fairy life', and Polly mentioned to the person sitting next to her that fairy prints had been taken by her daughter and niece.
		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.
		She and her cousin were obsessed with fairies when they were young and this obsession is used by both the `defence' and the 'prosecution' to explain the photographs.
	www.lhup.edu /~dsimanek/cooper.htm (6764 words)

	BBC - Bradford and West Yorkshire - A Sense of Place - Unexplained West Yorkshire
		Bus travellers arriving in Cottingley were even told they had arrived in Fairyland, all because of a series of photos taken by two girls in 1917.
		Perhaps the world would never have known about the Cottingley fairies but in 1920 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of detective Sherlock Holmes, not only wrote about the existence of the photos in Strand Magazine but declared them to be authentic.
		Throughout her life Frances always maintained the fairies were real but five years before her death Elsie Wright decided to come clean.
	bbc.co.uk /bradford/sense_of_place/unexplained/cottingley_fairies.shtml (644 words)

	Anomalies Article: The Cottingley Fairies
		While the legend of the Cottingley Fairies as told in a number of popular magazines and children's books over the years may end as the account above does, there is some more to be added to the situation now.
		Amazingly, he managed to find what appears to be an original print of the first photo in Cottingley; a comparison of this original to a print made from the Brotherton negatives is startling.
		Coe concluded it was a double exposure of fairy cutouts in grass, which explains why both women were convinced they had taken the photo...
	anomalyinfo.com /articles/sa00017a.shtml (428 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.
		She told him in an interview that the fairies might have been "figments of my imagination," but it was unclear if she meant that she had indeed faked the photographs or somehow believed she had photographed her thoughts.
		Elsie seemed very evasive on whether she had actually photographed real fairies and the BBC crew came to the conclusion that the pictures had been paper cutouts made to stand up with hat pins.
	www.unmuseum.org /fairies.htm (1249 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.
		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.
		Wright having decided that they were only pranks, though his wife was thoroughly convinced of the authenticity of the fairies; she was a Theosophist, and that religion accepts elves, fairies, goblins and all such nonsense.
	www.randi.org /library/cottingley (442 words)

	Ghosts on Film: Cottingley Fairies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.parascope.com /articles/0397/ghost08.htm (202 words)

	book reviews > The case of the cottingley Fairies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is that of a young girl, staring into the distance, while fairies dance on the grass in front of her.
		This book is an account of the 'truth' behind the infamous photographs of the Cottingley fairies, supposedly taken by two girls in the 1920s.
		The book captures the romanticism of fairies, and the playful nature of the two young heroines.
	www.reviewed4u.com /Media/books/Fairies.htm (138 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.
		But Elsie also said that one of the photographs was real and that there really were fairies in Cottingley glen.
		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)

	Conan Doyle and the Cottingley Fairies
		Their photographs of themselves with 'fairies' were accepted as genuine by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and were the subject of speculation for over 60 years, until the two women revealed the truth.
		This was the heyday of 'spirit photography', a bizarre phenomenon in which unscrupulous photographer made large amounts of money by producing photographs of the sitter accompanied by a other-worldly 'spirit' or the 'ghost' of a relative who had died in the war.
		Gardner did not regard this as suspicious, believing that the fairies were shy and would not show themselves in the presence of an adult male (5).
	www.chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk /cottfair.htm (1362 words)

	fairies
		A fairy is a mythical being of folklore and romance.
		Fairies are often depicted as diminutive winged humans with magical powers.
		Fairies should not be confused with gnomes, which are also mythical diminutive humans but are deformed and live underground.
	skepdic.com /fairies.html (507 words)

	COTTINGLEY.NET - The Cottingley Network
		The Cottingley Fairies are winging their way back to Cottingley today for a special one off exhibition.
		Children could be at risk from an influx of visitors on the trail of the Cottingley Fairies, a public meeting was told.
		A museum devoted to the Cottingley Fairies is part of a plan to revamp historic Cottingley Town Hall as a community arts and education centre.
	www.cottingley.net /news1998.shtml (1987 words)

	Cottingley fairies. - www.ezboard.com
		What interested me was not so much wether the photo's were fake or not but that so many people actually believed they were true.
		I do not mean belief in some sort of psychological principle or Jungian thingamajig, I mean belief in the physical reality of fairies at the bottom of your garden.
		And Dora Van Gelder Kunz's: "The Real World of Fairies: A First-Person Account" may also be of interest ot you.
	www.surlalunefairytales.com /boardarchives/2004/jan2004/cottingley.html (612 words)

	The Cottingley Fairies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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)

	Famous fairies including Tinkerbell, Tooth Fairy, Cottingley Fairies, Oberon and Puck
		This important section of Fairies World® provides information and images (if available) on some of the most important and influential fairies from storybooks, films, theatre and history books.
		Tinkerbell is probably the most well know and famous fairy in the world.
		All images on Fairies World® are Copyright© 2004 and used with the permission of the originating artists
	www.fairiesworld.com /famous-fairies (189 words)

	Cynical-C Blog: The Cottingley Fairies
		A wonderful site that goes into detail about the strange case of 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.
	www.cynical-c.com /archives/003549.html (213 words)

	Cottingley Fairies. (Page 1)
		In 1917, two Yorkshire schoolgirls produced photographs of what they claimed to be fairies, that they said that they had literally seen at the bottom of their garden, in an incident we now know of as The Cottingley Fairies.
		The girls, Elsie Wright and Francis Griffiths, aged 15 and 10 respectively at that time, were adamant that the photographs were of genuine fairies, and examination of the negatives by photographic experts of the time, showed that they had not been touched up in any way.
		You may notice that I have been referring to the singular person in this matter of the Cottingley Fairies.
	members.aol.com /MercStG/CottingFPage1.html (804 words)

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