In the Case of the Cottington Fairies, 1917, two English schoolgirls, 16-year-old Elsie Wright and her 10-year-old cousin, Frances Griffiths, produced photographs that, at the time, were endorsed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (author of Sherlock Holmes) as authentic proof that fairies existed. ... These are people, if you take notice, who were children so long ago that they have forgotten how honest the looks of daisies are when, sitting on the ground, one's face is no higher than theirs, and how sweet is the chime of Canterbury bells with the little ringer who stands below." ... Take in the...

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