Not exactly a "true story"
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twigs17 — 18 years ago(April 28, 2007 09:10 AM)
Heather,
I guess that's what I get for "assuming", sorry. My wife was born in Cottingley,and as a young girl spent many hours in the beck looking for fairies. She never saw any, but the legend was very popular then and many swore by it. -
L0GAN5 — 20 years ago(August 21, 2005 12:43 PM)
It was indeed the Bradford Cottingley. Earlier this year the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television based in Bradford put on an exhibition. It was fantastic stuff, and they even had one of the Conan-Doyle cameras on display along with the original photos blown up.
You could see the pin marks where the fairies had been pinned to trees. They had been cut out of a fairy book which the girl from Africa had brought home with her. -
ireland_18 — 20 years ago(November 03, 2005 06:47 PM)
If faeries don't really exist, than why are there so many different cultures that believe in them? Around the globe there are cultures that never knew about each other, but there are stories and tales in their culture that depicts faeries and their existance. What say you?
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countessvongroovy — 20 years ago(February 12, 2006 04:12 PM)
"If faeries don't really exist, than why are there so many different cultures that believe in them? Around the globe there are cultures that never knew about each other, but there are stories and tales in their culture that depicts faeries and their existance. What say you?"
Cultures around the world also invented gods, doesn't mean they exist.
I've seen the actual pictures, they don't look very real. Doesn't mean fairies don't exist though. -
Totally_Busted_Chick — 21 years ago(October 22, 2004 11:24 AM)
It happened after the 1800. They didn't cut them out of story books, they were drawn by the eldest Elsie. They are cleverly done, and considering the time, and the lack of knowledge the girls were considered to not have its pretty good. You try making a family film about fairies, having two girls lying to everyone
~"Not men, no. We are watchers. Bene elim. In your language, angels"~ -
Magnetforjerks — 21 years ago(November 28, 2004 10:54 AM)
Hmm.. It is sad that people are so ready to believe in the bad things and not the good. Anyways, this movie didn't fully tell you that the photographs were real. Remember when the reporter found those cut out fairy figures and pinned them on the desk? The scriptwriters put that in because that was how the girls had taken the pictures. Pinning up pictures with hat pins. Then the Joseph scared him off in order to "keep the fairy secret." The secret wasn't that fairy existed, but rather that the photographs were fake. They wanted Joseph's mother to believe in them because they believed in them and knew that it would help her if she did. And then, it helped other people as well. Anyways, I just figured I'd point out the movie did show you how they did the photographs maybe you were just too distracted by houdini? or the chess game?
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overseer-3 — 21 years ago(December 30, 2004 07:32 PM)
There are no fairies mentioned specifically in the Bible, so I don't think they exist. However there are angels mentioned, and other spiritual classes of beings (including demonic beings that can appear to be good, but which are really bad), so what could be seen could take on the appearance of delightful and good little "fairies", but the goal of these beings would be to trick and fool you into thinking they meant you no harm. If they are playing mind tricks on you eventually they could ruin your life, or at the very least minimally negatively affect it.
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flaca001-1 — 20 years ago(April 25, 2005 02:22 PM)
I hardly think someone telling you what the Bible says about something as ephemeral as 'fairies' constitutes "ultra-right Christian prejuidices." Don't you think you're over reacting a smidge! Doesn't everyone have a right to post what information they know? Give it a rest!
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justordinarygirl — 21 years ago(February 03, 2005 02:53 PM)
overseer-3
I don't believe the Bible is he most reliable source for a subject such as this. The Bible is incomplete as Constantine censored much of it's content. And from what I have heard, faeries are supposed to be good creatures, though sometimes tricksters, but not evil. -
ireland_18 — 21 years ago(February 04, 2005 06:18 PM)
Even if they don't metion faeries in the bible does not mean that they don't exist. The imagination is a wonderful place and many people rely on that to get away from problems in there lives. I believe in faeries.
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jsuligoy — 21 years ago(February 22, 2005 02:17 AM)
There's no electricity mentioned in the bible either, so I don't think that exists. This must be some strange sort of telepathy we're using to communicate with each other here a kind that must mesh with christian mythology, otherwise it couldn't POSSIBLY exist!
Having said that, the photos are obviously fake, the girls admitted they're fake I think they're probably fake. -
IdealSeller — 21 years ago(March 12, 2005 06:38 PM)
I'm sure that fairies can ruin your life.
Hello? Is there a black hole where a brain should be? BTW: The bible doesn't mention black holes, either. But I guarantee you that they exist since you obviously live in one.
Loved the movieit's whimsical, magical and full of hope that life holds mysteries that are not always explained. In other words, anything is possible (except fairies really being devils come to ruin your life
As far as the bible and it's mention of "demonic posession," this term was readily used to describe persons who were terribly ill. "Filled with demons" meant filled with sickness. This is a historical fact. It had nothing to do with devil-demons, fairies or gnomes.