Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore

The Coming of the Fairies

The series of incidents set forth in this little volume represent either the most elaborate and ingenious hoax ever played upon the public, or else they constitute an event in human history which may in the future appear to have been epoch-making in its character. It is hard f...

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I

The series of incidents set forth in this little volume represent either the most elaborate and ingenious hoax ever played upon the public, or else they constitute an event in h...

2. CHAPTER II

Should the incidents here narrated, and the photographs attached, hold their own against the criticism which they will excite, it is no exaggeration to say that they will mark a...

3. CHAPTER III

Though I was out of England at the time, I was able, even in Australia, to realize that the appearance of the first photographs in the _Strand Magazine_ had caused very great in...

4. CHAPTER IV

When Mr. Gardner was in Yorkshire in July, he left a good camera with Elsie, for he learned that her cousin Frances was about to visit her again and that there would be a chance...

5. CHAPTER V

_Gnomes and Fairies._ In the field we saw figures about the size of the gnome. They were making weird faces and grotesque contortions at the group. One in particular took great...

6. CHAPTER VI

By a curious coincidence, if it be indeed a coincidence, at the moment when the evidence for the actual existence of fairies was brought to my notice, I had just finished an art...

7. CHAPTER VII

From the foregoing chapter it will be clear that there was a good deal of evidence which cannot easily be brushed aside as to the existence of these little creatures before the...

8. CHAPTER VIII

Of all religions and philosophies in Western lands I know none save that ancient teaching now called Theosophy which has any place in it for elemental forms of life. Therefore,...