Fairies?!
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Between 1917 and 1920 two young girls, Frances Griffiths and her cousin Elsie Wright, took a series of five photographs outside of their home in Cottingley, Yorkshire. The photographs (all but one) showed the girls interacting with fairy creatures.
After a local photographic expert was shown the photos, they soon made their way into the hands of the wider public. Members of Britain's spiritualist movement immediately promoted them as empirical evidence of the existence of fairies. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, especially championed the authenticity and importance of the pictures, a position which he elaborated upon in an article written for Strand magazine in 1920.
It was not until 1978 that a researcher noticed that the fairies in the pictures were 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 fairy photographs.
In 1981 the two cousins confessed that the fairies in four of the pictures were paper cutouts from Princess Mary's Gift Book. They had held the paper fairies in place with hatpins. However, they insisted that the photograph of the fairy sunbath (the photo with no people in it) was not faked.(the last bottommost photo shown above) -
Here are some larger close ups of the photos...
This photo, taken in September, showed Elsie sitting on the lawn reaching out her hand to a friendly gnome (about a foot high, with wings) who is stepping forward onto the hem of her wide skirt.
"Francis and the Leaping Fairy" showed a slightly blurred profile of Frances with the winged fairy suspended in mid-air just in front of her nose.
A fairy standing in mid-air offering a flower to Elsie.
The photo, which the girls claimed was the only one which was not faked. -
Angels.......?
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Isn't there a movie abt two girls meeting fays also...?
Hmmm... -
the pictures are all faked.
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Anyone of you have encounter with angelic beings? while we keep on talking non stop about ghostly experiences, let us be mindful of the presence of celestial beings and they do exist as well..........
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Not disputing your point, unless these beings look like badly-drawn translucent 2d cutouts, these pictures are all faked. At that time it may be state of the art forgery, but it just does not cut it here as being convincing at all... stop motion monster animation sure was convincing back then, but we see right through it now.
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Dude, you have any? Share share!Originally posted by NeonTetra:Anyone of you have encounter with angelic beings? while we keep on talking non stop about ghostly experiences, let us be mindful of the presence of celestial beings and they do exist as well..........
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personally i do not have any............
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hey..i saw this book when im 14 yrs old..kekeke..well..im interested in tt too..i forgot the title of the book..it included pics of goblins..fairies..and angels..keke..nice book..