The Fairy World! By Jane Offer Recently I saw this saying, “My friend told me I live in fantasy land. I was so surprised that I almost fell off my unicorn!” It made me laugh, as this is the story of my life. I have always believed in elementals despite family derision and my fascination peaked when I read about two young cousins and their photographs of, what became known as, the Cottingley Fairies, named for their home village of Cottingley, near Bradford in the UK. The first two photographs were published in 1917, when Elsie Wright was 16 years-old and Frances Griffiths was
nine. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle saw them and used them to illustrate the article he wrote on fairies for The Strand Magazine’s 1920 Christmas edition. As a noted spiritualist of the time, he interpreted them as the ‘visible evidence of psychic phenomena’. Of course, they were met with a great deal of scepticism but the debate prevailed for many years with neither of the girls, by now married women, either agreeing or denying the authenticity of their photos. In the early1980s however, the girls admitted that the photographs were faked from cardboard cut-outs, but Frances maintained that the fifth
and final photograph was genuine. So, the truth remains hidden to this day. Fairies are the most commonly known Elementals, usually depicted in tiny human form with translucent wings. Their main role is as guardians of plants and flowers and they are also very powerful manifesters, using firm belief and clear visualisation to attract what they want into their lives. Harnessing the natural law through fairy energy and the moon cycles is a useful tool when manifesting for oneself.
“There is the fifth element which is pure Spirit, filling all space between the elements and is the essence of existence.” Fairies are one of many Elementals that are otherwise known as nature spirits or guardians; Pixies, Water Sprites, Imps, Mermaids and Unicorns are other examples of beings that belong to the natural realm. Just as angels are messengers from a higher source, Elementals are Earth’s natural guardians and messengers, and their role is to safeguard the Earth as
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Photo Credit: Elsie Wright, Frances Griffiths
