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THE WILD SWANS Fairy tale by Hans Andersen,1838. An evil queen turns her eleven stepsons into #swans and forces them to fly away (they're allowed to become human again by night). A possible influence on Swan Lake #WinterFolklore 🎨Anadezhda Illarionova; Anne Gilbert; Ian Daniels

DYING SWAN At the height of her career with the #Ballet Russes, #Pavlova resigned & moved to London to Ivy House in Hampstead. The house had an ornamental lake that she filled with snow-white swans to study them for her most famous role, The Dying Swan, first performed 1905

GUARDIAN ANGELS The idea that every living being has its own attendant spirit is shared by many cultures. The literature of encounters with #Angels is vast; a surprising number of people speak of experiencing angelic assistance or visions #GothicAdvent Ills Mann; Galli Swinstead

A TAXONOMY OF ANGELS
The Nine Choirs of Angels:
First order: Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones
Second order: Dominions, Powers, Virtues
Third order: Principalities, Archangels, Angels
Image: Victorian Christmas Card #Angels bring trees and Lilies #GothicAdvent

Vintage Christmas cards with cute cats for #Caturday

GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME. 3rd spirit to appear to Scrooge. 'The Phantom gravely, silently, approached, shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand'. Images 1843, 1920, 1970
#GothicAdvent

JACK FROST Is wonderfully #gothic. In 1902 he appears in 'The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus', by L. Frank Baum, author of the Wizard of Oz. He's re-imagined by Arthur Rackham in Allies' Fairy Book 1916, Hawthorne's Wonder Book 1922 & in Linda Ravenscroft #GothicAdvent

VICTORIAN XMAS After all nothing quite says Christmas like an amorous root vegetable, a group of pyromaniac sparrows or a grotesque-looking teapot lady!! You have to love #Victorian Xmas cards #GothicAdvent

THE SNOW QUEEN'S MIRROR makes anything good in the world appear bad & all that is evil & worthless seem attractive. It's the work of a Hobgoblin. If a fragment enters a person's eye they will see only faults, if a splinter enters a person's heart it will turn to ice #GothicAdvent

PUSS IN BOOTS Renowned animal trickster; popularised in Perrault in the C17th as Le Chat Botté, in English in Mother Goose, 1780. This con cat shares many of the features of a household fairy including a desire for boots which could represent seven-league boots #FolkoreThursday