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On Thursday October 4th we all have a golden opportunity to buy two of the Cottingley Fairies photographs. There are two photos being sold at auction, each estimated to fetch £700 to £1000. Not my taste but they are certainly a strange reminder of their times.
The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright (1901–1988) and Frances Griffiths (1907–1986), two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradfordin England. In 1917, when the first two photographs were taken, Elsie was 16 years old and Frances was 9. The pictures came to the attention of writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who used them to illustrate an article on fairieshe had been commissioned to write for the Christmas 1920 edition of The Strand Magazine. Doyle, as a spiritualist, was enthusiastic about the photographs, and interpreted them as clear and visible evidence of psychicphenomena. Public reaction was mixed; some accepted the images as genuine, others believed that they had been faked.
I’ll admit to being baffled by this. The idea of any sane adult thinking the photographs might be genuine is beyond strange. Presumably hardly anyone would accept similar photos as genuine today, but then we are familiar with faked photos and the digital age has made us even more cautious. 
Yet who could possibly believe in fairies anyway? Has human nature changed so much over the past century or so? 
Maybe we should see the Cottingley Fairies as a suggestion that we are just as gullible but in our own way. Perhaps it is one of the ways we make progress – building new modes of gullibility so we can laugh at the old ones. It’s how we always manage to amuse our descendants. 
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