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Cottingley Beck, where Frances and Elsie claimed to have seen the fairies. In mid-1917 nine-year-old Frances Griffiths and her mother – both newly arrived in England from South Africa – were staying with Frances's aunt, Elsie Wright's mother, Polly, in the village of Cottingley in West Yorkshire; Elsie was then 16 years old.
English: Frances Griffiths with Fairies. Source Scan of photographs Date Taken in 1917, first published in 1920 in The Strand Magazine. Author Elsie Wright (1901–1988) Permission (Reusing this file) Not in the public domain in its source country (UK) until 2059
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FairyTale: A True Story is a 1997 fantasy drama film directed by Charles Sturridge and produced by Bruce Davey and Wendy Finerman.It is loosely based on the story of the Cottingley Fairies, and follows two children in 1917 England who take a photograph soon believed to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies.
During World War One two young cousins from Cottingley, England, Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, took photographs of themselves with cardboard cutouts of fairies in their garden. Elsie's mother had shared the photos at a Bradford Theosophical Society meeting on nature spirits. They then gained the attention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author ...
The Cottingley Secret is a retelling of the story behind the Cottingley fairies and a series of purportedly real photographs created in Cottingley, a village in West Yorkshire, England. The plots follows the lives of the two cousins—Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright—who photographed real fairies in the garden near a stream. The story ...
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