Fairies DO Exist!

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I ran across the picture of the Venezuelan Poodle Moth and instantly thought fairy. Which sparked the question, “Do fairies really exist?”

Let’s first look at the definition:

Fairy (wikipedia)- A fairy is a type of mythical being or legendary creature, a form of spirit, often described as metaphysical, supernatural or preternatural.

Now let’s look at a few clips of what hollywood has imagined them to look like:

First clip is one of my old school favorites, Hook:



Next, a clip from the fabulous Pan’s Labyrinth:



And Lastly, a clip from Snow White and the Huntsman:

I don’t believe that “fairies” are real, but if they were I would imagine them as looking very similar to that of the Venezuelan Poodle Moth. (Featured picture of VPM from collection of photos taken by Dr. Author Anker) So why does my blog heading read: Fairies DO Exist if I don’t really believe in fairies? Well, that brings me to the story of the Cottingley Fairies…

The Cottingley Fairies (as they would later be named) were taken in a series of photos by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffith of Cottingley, England in the early 1900′s. Now, this is an interesting story because these two cousins claimed to have discovered fairies near a brook behind the Wright’s family home. Elsie’s father did not believe the girls, so they decided to take pictures of their little winged friends. These photos would become published, investigated, and gain mixed public reaction for over sixty years.

In their later years, Elsie and Frances admitted to faking the first images with the use of paper cutouts, but they still claimed that they really had seen fairies. And even though Frances agreed with Elsie that the first images had been fakes, she maintained that the last image (the image of the fairies in the grass), was indeed genuine.

To this day no one knows who or what story to believe, but quoting the girls, “a rational person doesn’t see fairies”…

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