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The Cottingley Fairies

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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The Fairies in the Film Exposure

In 19 83, the girls finally came clean and admitted the photos were faked. In 19 85, francis explained how they came up with the idea you'll remember that their parents had been teasing them about saying that they had been seeing fairies. They used a copy of princess mary's gift book, which was a charity children's book produced during world war one. And frances based her images on these women and drew wings on them to make them look like fairies. Ironically, sir arthur conan doyle was himself one of the contributors to princess mary’s gift book, but he didn't notice the similarity. But we did wee with the long hatpin

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