Do you believe in Ghosts? A lot of people do. Have you ever seen one? Do you believe in Angels? The bible says they exist...but have you ever seen one? Do you believe in God? I do, but I've never seen him either. I've only seen the evidence of what I believe is him in everything, felt him in my heart, heard his voice in my inner being and felt his love wash over me and make me whole. Do you believe in Fairies? Why not?
Do you know any fairies?
Well, except for Tinkerbell, the Tooth Fairy, the Fairy Godmother and fairy princesses.
Where do fairies come from?
Nobody seems to know know for sure where they came from or even if they really ever existed. There just doesn't seem to be any valid fairy documented proof, either in written form, photographs or in diaries or journals. There aren't even any fairy fossils. It seems to be widely accepted that fairies are just mythical creatures. The existence of fairies is surrounded by mystery. Ireland is saturated with fairy legendry and superstition. In modern society, fairies are thought of as having wings and posessing magic powers.
A good source of information on the origin of fairies can be found here
Fairy Remains Found April, 1, 2007
While a man was walking his dog in Derbyshire England, he came across what appeared to be a burial ground for Fairies. The remains of an 8 inch fairy female, intact with tiny nails,
wings, teeth, and remains of her flowing red hair. There were several fairy remains suggesting this was a fairy burial ground.
The bones are hollow like that of a bird, and she has a navel, suggesting they reproduced the same way as humans, although there are no reproductive organs. X rays showed the remains to be like that of a child.
An expert in the paranormal was called in to examine the bodies and revealed that these fairies were approximately 400 years old and was preserved so well some had eyebrows.
However, the discovery of fairies was an actual April Fool's joke, and very likely one of the biggest hoaxes in the UK. Illusionist Dan Baines created this fairy and others like it as a hoax. His website received 20,000 hits in one day. This story was in newspapers throughout the UK.
Baines, decided to sell his fairy on Ebay, and an unidentified buyer was the lucky recipient of a mummified fairy.
The actual hoax and more pictures can be found here. It does look pretty believeable!
The Cottingley Fairies
The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England. In 1917, when the first two photographs were taken, Elsie was 16 years old and Frances was 10. The pictures came to the attention of writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who used them to illustrate an article on fairies he had been commissioned to write for the Christmas 1920 edition of The Strand Magazine. Conan Doyle, as a Spiritualist, was enthusiastic about the photographs, and interpreted them as clear and visible evidence of psychic phenomena. Public reaction was mixed; some accepted that the images were genuine, but others believed they had been faked.
Today, the photographs and two of the cameras used are on display in the National Media Museum in Bradford.
Read more about the story at:
The Coming of The Fairies by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (illustrated version) is available from
OR you can download it here. Download includes a PDF of the actual book and the plain text.
OR you can read the actual hard bound book online here.
FairyTale: A True Story - The movie was made in 1997 and Mel Gibson played an uncredited role. If Mel Gibson was in it, then it must be true!
You can purchase a downloadable version from Amazon Here's a clip/montage from the movie.
So now, do you believe in fairies? You know you want to!!!
Here's a great little how-to audio in case you ever want to frame or mount a fairy that you might capture.
