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Fairy photographs persuaded
Sherlock Holmes’s creator.
Arthur Conan Doyle embraced the Cottingley fairy photographs as evidence of supernatural phenomena. The pictures were part of a hoax.
Writing a brilliant detective
did not settle a photograph’s authenticity.
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