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Peter A Rushforth
Nov 18, 04 - 10:51 PM |
Do You Believe In Fairies?
Well do you?There have been many fairies in folk tales and literature over the centuries. In J M Barrie's book "Peter Pan" we learn that the beginning of fairies was when the first baby laughed for the first time. "It's laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about and that was the beginning of fairies." And Peter tells us that every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. Tinker Bell is the fairy in 'Peter Pan'. There have, of course, been many fairies in stories over the years and there have been many songs including "Nobody Loves a Fairy When She's Forty" sung by the late, well-overweight comedienne Tesse O'Shea. And here in Yorkshire the Cottingley Fairies caused a stir in 1917 when two young girls, Elsie and Frances, showed photographs of fairies which they said they had taken near the beck which ran past their house in Cottingley. Throughout the nation great interest was shown in the photographs. They were examined by experts who judged them genuine. Even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a qualified doctor, and author of the Sherlock Holmes stories believed in them. The story persisted for many years and it wasn't until 1983 that Elsie and Frances (then 81 and 78 respectively) confessed that it had been a hoax. They had, they said, cut out illustrations of fairies from books, placed them in position in the beck and amongst the bushes and then taken the photographs. Even so I guess that people will continue to speak of the Cottingley Fairies for many, many years. And a building firm, David Wilson Homes, has shown delightful imagination. They have built an estate of houses on a plot which backs on to the famous beck and have called the four roads Lysander Way, Titania Close, Oberon Way and Goodfellow Close. Lysander is a character in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer-night's Dream". The other three are fairies in the same play. So, do You believe in fairies? |
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Gladys
Nov 23rd, 2004 - 1:42 AM |
Re: Re: Do You Believe In Fairies?
Could anyone give me the words of the poem beginning "There are fairies at the bottom of my garden" - that might help us in our recollection of fairies. Thanks. |
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