Marketing

Jennifer Harden

English 102

Elizabeth Burton

October 3, 2014

Fairy Tale

To some Fairies are as real as the ground we walk on every day. To others they are just some story that adult keep alive just to amuse children. There and numerous websites and articles dating back to the 1920s that question if the little delightful creatures are real or not. I say that everyone is entitled to their own opinion but I say that fairies are for the birds.

When I entered the word fairy in to my Google search bar the first things to pop up were some pictures. For a quick second I thought about changing my view on this topic but as I continued to stare at these pictures I just could not wrap my brain around the fact that this could be anywhere near the truth. The pictures I came across were said to be the pictures that John Hyatt took. He said that the series of photos were taken over two years just for the purpose of proving that winged creatures do exist in Lancashire (qtd. In “Away With the Fairies”). His pictures may have caused some controversy but have yet to be proven as a hoax. This article also says that he stated “I think it’s one of those situations where you need to believe to see.” I didn’t take this as the normal “see to believe” but that people need to look that the pictures with a clear and open mind.

Then I read the story of the Cottingley fairies. This story came about the 1920s. There were picture of children outside playing with fairies. Frances Griffin just moved in with her aunt, uncle, and cousin the Wrights in the Cottingley village. Frances and her older cousin Elsie went out with a camera to take pictures with the fairies that they had been playing with in the garden. When the pictures were developed Elsie’s mother took them to to a lecture that she had attended about spiritualism. A photographer by the name of Harold Snelling declared that the photos were “genuine unfaked photographs of single exposure, open-air work, show movement...