The Dead fairy hoax was an April Fools' Day prank in 2007. Dan Baines, a sculptor and illusion designer, managed to sell his creation, the fake corpse of a fairy, on an internet auction for nearly £300.
Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or fairy:
“Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Hand in hand, with fairy grace,
Will we sing, and bless this place.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)