Marianna Spring on BBC Radio 4, talking about fairy disinformation. This is what I pay my licence fee for! #CottingleyFairies

#CottingleyFairies?

🧚♀️ Our mythological creature of the day is the Cottingley Fairies!

In 1917-20 a group of young girls from Cottingley faked photographs of themselves with fairies. It fooled people for decades, most famously Arthur Conan Doyle!

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Fairies At The End Of The Garden “Here are fairies at the bottom of our garden,” opens a 1917 poem by Rose Fyleman. That same year, two clever young cousins managed to captivate the wor…

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Do fairies still live at the bottom of the garden? We’ll let you decide… 🪄
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Copies of infamous #CottingleyFairies #photographs set for #auction after century in family's possession
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Was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Crazy? (San Francisco Examiner, Nov, 19, 1922) People ridiculed and doubted Arthur Conan Doyle, the renowned author of Sherlock Holmes, for his belief in the Cottingley Fairies. The controversy started in...

People ridiculed and doubted Arthur Conan Doyle, the renowned author of Sherlock Holmes, for his belief in the Cottingley Fairies. #cottingleyfairies #arthurconandoyle fairyland.blog/post/7840650...

So I made these #cottingleyfairies for #HolmesFest but I think the butterfly 🦋 wings on them looked a bit naff so I've changed the wings to be more skeletal.
What does everyone think? Does it look better
100 year old dessicated fairy remains? #cottingleyfairiesinspired
#deadfairy #deadfairies

In 1917, two girls claimed they photographed real fairies in Cottingley, England. The hoax fooled even Sherlock Holmes' creator, Arthur Conan Doyle! Decades later, they confessed—but insisted they'd seen real fairies

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#PhotoshopFail
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So I made a lot of new stuff for Holmes Fest on the theme of #arthurconandoyle fiction. Dinosaur 🦖 fossils from the The Lost World and the remains of the Cottingley Faeries
All these are now available so get in touch #faeriefolklore #faeriefolklore
#cottingleyfairies #faeries #faeriefolk

Two fairies photoshopped onto a very small tree in a suburban garden

My 5yo neighbour left gifts for the fairies under a specific tree in the garden every day so I sent her this photoshop of the tree and her little Conan Doyle ass was terrified and she didn’t sleep that night. #CottingleyFairies

One of the black and white Cottingley Fairies photos

"Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing. I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused."—C (short for Cottingley, probably)

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