All of us, when we were children, believed in fairies. Here's the extraordinary story of two little girls who not only believed in fairies, but made friends with them–and even captured them on film. The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright (1901–88) and Frances Griffiths (1907–86), two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England. 1917 photographs In mid-1917 nine-year-old Frances Griffiths and her mother—both newly arrived in the…

Note: This was a personal aesthetic, but because this was created before the ban on personal aesthetics was in place, many content creators used this page for inspiration, making this page necessary. Fairy Academia is a feminine, otherworldly offshoot of Dark Academia, inspired by the popular children's novels and illustrations from the 19th and 20th centuries as well as the general themes and visuals of Victorian and Edwardian childhood. The main inspiration comes from the concept or belief…

The British Journal of Photography is reporting today that Geoffrey Crawley -- the world-renowned photographer who debunked the Cottingley Fairies hoax in

You can see the Cottingley Fairies in five photographs made of them between 1917 and 1920. Made by two cousins aged 9 and 16, the photographs gained a lot

"The Cottingley Fairies" by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, 1917

The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, England. In 1917, when the first two photographs were taken, Elsie was 16 years old and Frances was 10. The pictures came to the attention of writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who used them to illustrate an article on fairies. Public reaction was mixed; some accepted the images as genuine, but others believed they had been faked.

The photograph that fooled Conan Doyle by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths

***Dedicated to Invisible who sent in two of these fakes*** Beachcombing apologies because he does normally try and limit his fairy nonsense to a post a week. But this was just too good to miss. He stumbled across a curious reference in the works of Robert Southey (obit 1843). While wandering through Bristol Southey saw […]