Guest Post: The Girl Who Never Was - Skylar Dorset
Cottingley
In
the early twentieth century, two little girls caused a massive media
event when they claimed to have taken photographs of faeries near the
brook in their backyard in Cottingley, England. The photographs caught
the imagination of the country, and celebrities like Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes, descended upon the area, hoping to
spy faeries themselves.
Eventually,
the little girls admitted it had all been a hoax, and that they had set
up the photographs using paper cutouts of faeries from a catalog.
Good
thing, too, because all the attention was really cramping the style of
the faeries who liked to pop over to Cottingley for a visit.
Do
you think there is any truth in the legends? What mythological
creatures do you think might be hiding out there? Unicorns? Bigfoot? The
Loch Ness Monster?
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Skylar Dorset
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