Long has the mystery of the elusive and entrancing fairy perplexed some of the greatest minds in the Western World.
Whether known as fairies, Little People, sidhe, elves, or Faerie(ii or y, for teenage Livejournalers only), they have fascinated our preeminent literary figures as well as those whose interests lie in the purely scientific, theists of the most extreme sort, and atheists likewise.
Truly, there is no corner of the human imagination into which they have not penetrated.
Various proofs were brought forward and each, in turn, mocked. Fossilized fairies. Mummified fairies. Even, in the ultimate legitimization that Western society offers, Retailed Fairies (free shipping to Neverland).
Each fell before the catcalls of the disbelievers.
Now, at last, positive photographic proof of the existence of fairies has emerged from the Dark Continent. This crystal-clear shot of a fairy conducting a conversation with two friendly meerkats is the first hint we’ve had of the so-called “Special Relationship” between the two species. Long have the inscrutable meerkat race been suspected of magical qualities, and now we have conclusive proof of the nature of that intercourse with the spiritual world within our own.
Let the naysayers mock if they dare!
This remarkable scientific document deservedly won special commendation in the behaviour (mammals) category in the prestigious Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, hosted by the UK’s Natural History Museum, and it comes to us direct from the not-at-all-given-to-mere-sentimentality-except-Polly-Toynbee-who-can’t-think-anyway Guardian newspaper. It was taken by Shem Compion on South Africa’s Tswalu Kalahari reserve, which is no doubt shortly to become a mecca for sidhezoologists from around the globe. Book your flight now: airplane optional!
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35 Comments
19 links! Don’t ever say I don’t put out for you people!
I keep hearing all this crap about Quentin Crisp being alive and well even though he’s dead. What in hell is going on?
My Quentin, DEAD??? NEVER!
*claps hands*
19 links … anyone counting how many went to her posts?
Oh wow. That is a great meercats photo. Yay!
Thank you for the link love too Sunshine.
You’re welcome, dearie. Now where’s PeterPan with his thank you’s for the link? Oh, right, it was Wendy who was the polite one, and he’s marrying Tink.
This one looks like a large mesquito. The legs are to thin. Sorry. But that other one I talked about…
The chin is too pointy( like an anime chin lol)…there are three legs visible…
that is so a wasp!
Don’t be ridiculous. Do you have any proof to back up this absurd claim?
I’m sorry….. but that kind of looks like a bug…. DON’T HURT ME!!
Well, of COURSE it does. Do you think that Fairies are stupid enough to fly around undisguised?
that thing looks like a MEGA-FLY
sry but there’z no way any1 should belive that
and fairies don’t have to disguise themselves they live in the forests around a bunch of pretty flowerz
don’u u watch any movies???!!!
“MEGA-FLY” Oh, please! What is that, some villain from TekWars or something? You just made that up.
that meerkat is thinking ‘i want to eat it…….NOW!!’
Not at all. I have it on good authority they were discussing the number of logical positivists who can dance on the head of a pin.
I love fairies, but this picture simply looks like a… bug… The head and body are visible, but the legs are thin like a MOSQUITO and there are THREE legs… Sorry. I do believe though.
Don’t be ridiculous: what bug has three legs? Proof it’s not a bug at the very least! It is, of course, a delicate arm and two legs. The other is not visible from this angle, but probably holding a delicate fairy rapier, hence the rapt attention of the meerkats.
err
… ummm
F/O – what is it that you believe ?
Surly not Logical Positivists ???
G Eagle, it’s like spiritualism versus religion: they believe, they just don’t know what in.
BTW is our tow-headed friend king of London yet? I haven’t checked.
ok who ever took this pic are u really that retarded?
it is obviously a frekin bug! u idiot u have disgraced the name of all fairy belivers! ok excuse my lingo but, u r a fuckin retard to think thats a fairy. its a BUG! i repeat a BUG! geze! th meerkats r lookin at it cause it was flyin in front of their faces!!!
gosh!
With spelling like that, you’re obviously a troll. Naturally, you’d want to repress news of fairy sightings, lest humans realize that you live among them, nestling under bridges and only coming out for your sessions at the internet cafe, leaving massively illiterate comments on blogs that dare reveal the existence of your world.
The mummified one looks more real…That could just as easily be a mosquito or some fly..Don’t get me wrong, I believe in fairies strongly, but the photographic evidence on this one isn’t all that good…
It s dragon fly. anyone who tries to pass this off as a fairy are flippen nuts and need there heads shaken, Time to grow up and research bugs!!
Fuck off back to playing WoW you weird fucks its a fucking bug you can see the body segments. It is most likley a wasp as they fly with a number of there legs hanging below them. Learn some fucking biology instead of overindulging in computers and fantacy novels FUCK…… I DONT BELEIVE IN FAIRIES!! I beleive in science.
One again, unsubstantiated statements from an anonymous, ungrammatical troll. Where will you unscientific types learn that only actual PROOF will suffice?
Wow too bad they do not believe in spelling or grammar. They almost had me convinced.
Well of course it’s a faery silly! If it was a black wasp I’m sure any other wasp wouldn’t be so smart as to disguise itself as a faery pretending to be a wasp…geez.
Well-put!
That’s absolutely ridiculous, I mean seriously you people can’t be for real. How the hell is that supposed to be a fairy, I mean for christ’s sake how deluded do you have to be. Its just a mud wasp, or a mud dauber, found all over South Africa. When they fly they hold their two smaller front legs up, so would be out of shot.
Its looks exactly like this,
http://www.fumexpro.com/img1/Mud%20Daubers.jpg
which is indeed a wasp!
So you SAY! But I have more knockout photographic evidence coming soon. Yes, this blog will soon be the world’s foremost source of fairy photographs, them damn Cottingly girls be damned!
do fairies really exist??/
i hav heard that they are very beautiful and kind. is it true….??
are they like the one in cindrella’s story….??
can anyone see them????
Click on the blog name to see the page that proves it.
wow!! IGNORE the other non-believers, that is truly fascinating..
The unbelievers are so hidebound that not even an autopsy, a body, and photographic proof are enough to sway them from their horrible, blinkered orthodoxy.
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