On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, William Robb wrote:
>
> > Wait a minute -- that was the fifties ... Wasn't that about
> the time they
> > discovered LSD???
>
> Yup. They hadn't discovered video yet. I recall some sort of
> absurd 19th century work that was purportedly to be fairies in a
> garden. I think that photographer was in England.
> William Robb
Arthur Conan Doyle (of Sherlock Holmes fame) was famously fooled
by some photographs of fairies taken by some British children
(Kodak Box perhaps?).
I think he wrote a book about them, and became a convinced
believer in psychic phenomena.
The actual fairies were illustrations snipped from some book and
stuck amongst the flowers. They are so obviously faked that one
has to be amazed by his gullibility. Where was Dr. Watson when
he needed him?
Roger.
--
Roger Fearick
Dept. of Physics
University of Cape Town
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