Yallery Brown
A small, wrinkled fairy in a folktale from Lincolnshire, England. He repays the young man who helps him, but because the young man breaks the promise "never thank me," he brings him misfortune for the rest of his life.
Mystery Timeline｜1868–1945
Mysteries of the 1868–1945
From the age of The Legends of Tono to the days when Nessie and the coelacanth made headlines around the world: mysteries from the Meiji era to the end of World War II.
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1891 (recorded)
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1917
Cottingley Fairies
"Photos with fairies" taken by two girls in the English village of Cottingley in 1917. Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, presented them as genuine, sparking great controversy, but in 1983 the two confessed they had used cut-out drawings.
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1940s
Gremlin
A little creature said to tamper with aircraft machinery and cause breakdowns, talked about among Royal Air Force pilots during World War II. It became world-famous through Roald Dahl's book and the 1984 film.
