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In1917, 16-year-old Elsie  
Wright and her cousin Frances  
Griffiths took photographs  
to prove the existence of  
fairies to Elsie's father.  
The girls lived in   
Cottingley, England.  
   In 1920, Sir Arthur Conan
  Doyle, creator of Sherlock
  Holmes, became convinced
  photos of fairies taken by two   young girls, Elsie Wright and
  Frances Griffiths, were real. 		 
 
Elsie's father was not  
convinced but two years later  
her mother took the pictures  
to a Theosophist meeting  
where spiritualists accepted  
the photos as genuine  
evidence of fairies.  
  

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  Sir Arthur printed the first two pictures
  in Strand Magazine which made the story
  a worldwide sensation.

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