I've always liked fairies and mermaids and the like. I think that in most illustrations, fairies are shown in medieval attire or near nudity, although some of the Cottingley fairy photos show dresses circa 1920. I had a stroll around Cottingley and the glen some time ago and it was nice, although the area is more built up than it used to be (the new streets have fairy names such as Oberon and Titania). Even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle believed and visited the girls who took the photos. Of course, one of the girls in later life admitted that most of the photos were faked but insisted that they really had seen fairies and had faked the photos because nobody would believe them. FairyTale: A True Story is a movie about the girls. There were already fairy legends associated with Cottingley Glen and there is an ancient carved stone, associated with fairies, in the glen, although I haven't seen it yet. I also went to White Wells on Ilkley Moor where, in a previous century, an attendant at the springs complained of being attacked by a large number of fairies.
