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VICTORIAN #GOTHIC RAPUNZELS (1865-1900) spooky hair days prior to #lockdown #GothicSpring

WEREWOLF TRIALS The Gandillon #werewolves were a French family who ravaged the area of Jura in wolf form. Pernette and Pierre (children) confessed to using ointments to transform into wolves. They were tried, hanged and burnt as werewolves in 1598 #WyrdWednesday

FAIRIES BEHAVING BADLY Armed fae are seen warring with bats for their 'leathern wings', killing caterpillars as 'canker' & spearing a 'red hipped humble bee' in A Midsummer Night's Dream ills Arthur Rackham 1908. Hey fairies leave those bats & bees alone! #GothicFairies

THE JUNIPER TREE
Most shocking of all fairy tales:
"My mother, she slew me,
My father, he ate me
My sister, Little Marlene,
Gathered up my bones,
Tied them up in silk,
And put them under the Juniper tree"
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm (1812) #FairyTaleTuesday
🎨PhantomSeptember; Dezsö

GOTHIC FAIRIES Fuseli's Gothic vision of A Midsummer Nights Dream is full of menace. Titania & Bottom mingle with a hooded midnight hag clutching a changeling, a Fairy Courtesan with her victim, an old man, held on a chain & a fairy child with a proboscis #GothicFairies

FAIRY TRANSPORT In the fantastical world of French author and illustrator Jean-Baptiste Monge, #fairies cast an enchantment over woodland animals and birds; bird-riding fae are shown delighting in their mode of transport #FairyTaleTuesday

In the MABINOGION Celtic wizard Gwydion creates a woman out of flowers, Blodeuedd, who becomes a flower-faced owl Blodeuwedd. When Alan Garner found plates the design of which could be seen as either owls or flowers The Owl Service 1960 was born #FairyTaleTuesday

UNDINE A fairy-tale novella by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. Undine, a water spirit, couples with a knight, in order to gain a soul.The first adaptation of was E. T. A. Hoffmann's opera in 1816. 🎨Undine beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham (1909) #GothicSpring

@OGOMProject are busy finalising the programme for our Gothic Fairies conference in April. Fairies encircle a tomb at night in E.T. Parris, 1832. The white floating figure of a fairy ballerina in productions of 'Giselle' & 'Ondine' is here transposed #GothicFairies #GothicSpring

NOCTURNAL FAE Moonlight Fairies use an OWL CHARIOT for transport & the crescent moon, inspired by William Allingham (1824 - 1889); OWL-RIDING Night-time Fae occur in Amelia Jane Murray (1800-1896) #GothicFairies #FolkoreThursday