Arthur Conan Doyle's case for the Cottingley fairy photographs taken by two girls in Yorkshire in 1917 — which the cousins admitted in 1983 had been faked with paper cut-outs. Shelved as the record of how a great mind was persuaded.
SUBJECTSFairiesPhotographySpiritualism
CONTENTS · 10
- 1PREFACE1 MIN
- 2THE PHOTOGRAPH FROM CANADA 144 — THE COMING OF THE FAIRIES — CHAPTER I — HOW THE MATTER AROSE18 MIN
- 3CHAPTER II — THE FIRST PUBLISHED ACCOUNT--"STRAND" CHRISTMAS NUMBER, 192014 MIN
- 4CHAPTER III — RECEPTION OF THE FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS1 MIN
- 5DO FAIRIES EXIST? — INVESTIGATION IN A YORKSHIRE VALLEY — COTTINGLEY'S MYSTERY — STORY OF THE GIRL WHO TOOK THE SNAPSHOT23 MIN
- 6CHAPTER IV — THE SECOND SERIES10 MIN
- 7CHAPTER V — OBSERVATIONS OF A CLAIRVOYANT IN THE COTTINGLEY GLEN, AUGUST 192110 MIN
- 8CHAPTER VI — INDEPENDENT EVIDENCE FOR FAIRIES20 MIN
- 9CHAPTER VII — SOME SUBSEQUENT CASES13 MIN
- 10CHAPTER VIII — THE THEOSOPHIC VIEW OF FAIRIES17 MIN
THE TEXT
Text of the Project Gutenberg edition (The Coming of the Fairies). Taken from Project Gutenberg (eBook #47506). Public domain in the United States; no rights are claimed over the text.