The Fairy Ring by Mary Losure5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() The girls stood by their story for decades, in the face of escalating adult interest and skeptical reporters. It's the story of a lie tumbling out of control. The mother of one of the girls gave the photos to an adult member of the Theosophists, who believed in fairies, and before long Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a book using the photos as proof of the existence of fairy folk. The book says that the girls staged the pictures in response to adults belittling them when they talked about fairies. One of the girls claimed that she actually saw fairy folk, apart from the faked pictures. It tells the story of two Yorkshire cousins during World War I who took pictures of drawings of fairies and passed them off as photos of the real thing. ![]() The Fairy Ring, by Mary Losure is a magical piece of non-fiction. Moving back to chapter books, a lovely new one went on sale this week. ![]()
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