DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES.

For christmas Matty gave me a book from the 1940's called 'Fairies, A book of Real Fairies'. It's about two cousins who in 1917 England took a series of 5 photos allegedly proving the existence of fairies. It turned into a huge deal after the photos were sent to an author who visited the girls and after getting experts to examine the photos concluded they were genuine and fairies did exist! The book inspired hundreds of people to write in also sharing there fairy stories...

It wasn't until the 1980's that the girls admitted that the photos were faked using cardboard cutouts. They'd drawn the fairies themselves and propped them up using hat pins! So funny to think photography was such a new thing back then and what seems so obvious now won over the pro's then... Lots of people still question whether the photos were authentic despite the girls confession.. Believe what you will, we can all dream...