Next. Chapter Iv. The Second Series : p. 93 CHAPTER IV THE SECOND SERIES When Mr. Gardner was in Yorkshire in July, he left a good camera with Elsie, for he learned that her cousin Frances was about to visit her again and that there would be a chance of more photographs. One of our difficulties has been that the associated aur...
Next. Chapter I. How The Matter Arose : p. 13 THE COMING OF THE FAIRIES CHAPTER I HOW THE MATTER AROSE The series of incidents set forth in this little volume represent either the most elaborate and ingenious hoax every played upon the public, or else they constitute an event in human history which may in the future appear to have been...
Next. Chapter Ii. The First Published Account : p. 39 CHAPTER II THE FIRST PUBLISHED ACCOUNT--"STRAND" CHRISTMAS NUMBER, 1920 Should the incidents here narrated, and the photographs attached, hold their own against the criticism which they will excite, it is no exaggeration to say that they will mark an epoch in human thought. I put them...
Title Page : p. 171 CHAPTER VIII THE THEOSOPHIC VIEW OF FAIRIES Of all religious and philosophies in Western lands I know none save that ancient teaching now called Theosophy which has any place in it for elemental forms of life. Therefore, since we have established some sort of independent case for their...
Next. Chapter Iii. Reception Of The First : p. 59 CHAPTER III RECEPTION OF THE FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS Though I was out of England at the time, I was able, even in Australia, to realize that the appearance of the first photographs in the "Strand Magazine" had caused very great interest. The press comments were as a rule cautious but not...
Untitled : Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, in his later years became attracted to spiritualism and occult topics. This was after the death of his son Raymond during World War I. While researching the topic of fairies, some photographs from a working-class family in rural Yorkshire were...
Title Page. Part 1 : THE COMING OF THE FAIRIES BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS. Hodder & Stoughton New York, Toronto And London [1922] Scanned , June 2004. John Bruno Hare, Redactor. This Text Is In The Public Domain In The United States, UK And European Union, And Other Countries. These Files May Be...
Next. Preface : p. v PREFACE This book contains reproductions of the famous Cottingley photographs, and gives the whole of the evidence in connection with them. The diligent reader is in almost as good a position as I am to form a judgment upon the authenticity of the pictures. This narrative is not a special...
Next. Chapter Vi. Independent Evidence For Fairies : p. 123 CHAPTER VI INDEPENDENT EVIDENCE FOR FAIRIES By a curious coincidence, if it be indeed a coincidence, at the moment when the evidence for the actual existence of fairies was brought to my notice, I had just finished an article dealing with the subject, in which I gave particulars of a number...
Next. Chapter Vii. Some Subsequent Cases : p. 152 CHAPTER VII SOME SUBSEQUENT CASES From the foregoing chapter it will be clear that there was a good deal of evidence which cannot easily be brushed aside as to the existence of these little creatures before the discovery of the photographs. These various witnesses have nothing to gain by...
Next. Chapter V. Observations Of A Clairvoyant : p. 108 CHAPTER V OBSERVATIONS OF A CLAIRVOYANT IN THE COTTINGLEY GLEN, AUGUST 1921 Gnomes and Fairies. In the field we saw figures about the size of the gnome. They were making weird faces and grotesque contortions at the group. One in particular took great delight in knocking his knees together...
