The Cottingley Fairies (issue #36)
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ALSO INSIDE SKEPTIC
Junior Skeptic can
also be found within this issue of
Skeptic magazine.
in this issue
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The Cottingley Fairies
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Fairies Photographed; The Girls Behind the Fairies: Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright; “I Go to See the Fairies”;
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The Plot Develops;
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The Cottingley Cameras;
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The Second Photo;
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The Next Three years;
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Edward Gardner;
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From Sherlock Holmes … to Fairies?; Conan Doyle; Doyle’s Spiritualism;
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The Last of the Fairy Photos;
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Media frenzy;
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The Aftermath; The World’s Greatest Hoax?; Should He Have known?;
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Psychic Silliness;
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Fed Up With Fairies;
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The Next 60 Years;
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Randi v. Fairies;
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Confessions;
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Frances and the Fairies;
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The Bottom Line.
by guest writers Jillian Baker and Jason Loxton with Daniel Loxton. Cover Art by Daniel Loxton. Art by Daniel Loxton and Jim Smith
from the Introduction
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Hello!
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I’m Daniel, the Editor of Junior Skeptic. I’d like to introduce you to Jillian Baker and Jason Loxton, guest writers for this issue. We had a lot of fun researching one of history’s most unusual stories about fairies.
Like many fairy tales, it’s a story with some lessons to teach. One is that it’s foolish to underestimate kids. Another is that you shouldn’t believe everything you see!
How did two girls fool the world’s greatest writer of detective stories? Let’s find out!
Let’s find out!