No, your eyes do not deceive you.  This IS a new episode of Femmes Macabres!  In this week's episode, Erin and Steph are dancing with the fairies!  Tune in to learn about the history of fairies and the most famous fairy hoax of all, the Cottingley Fairies.

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Dark Hallway by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Allegro by Emmit Fenn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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“Cottingley Fairies Fake Photos to Go under the Hammer.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 31 Mar. 2019, www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/mar/31/cottingley-fairies-fake-photos-go-under-the-hammer.

Forsberg, Laura. “Nature's Invisibilia: The Victorian Microscope and the Miniature Fairy.” Victorian Studies, vol. 57, no. 4, 2015, pp. 638–666. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/victorianstudies.57.4.03. Accessed 14 Apr. 2021.

Hewitt, Alden. “The Fairy Lore of the Elizabethans.” The Elementary English Review, vol. 11, no. 1, 1934, pp. 1–29. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41380900. Accessed 14 Apr. 2021.

Maher, FR. The Secret of the Cottingley Fairies. Amazon Publishing, 2017.

Saunders, Michèle J. “A Small Trip Through Tooth Lore, or Where Did the Tooth Fairy Come From?” Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging, vol. 40, no. 3, 2016, pp. 16–18. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26556210. Accessed 14 Apr. 2021.