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THE SNOW QUEEN'S MIRROR makes anything good in the world appear bad & all that is evil & worthless seem attractive. If a fragment enters your eye you will see only faults, if a splinter enters your heart it will turn to ice #GothicAdvent #WyrdWednesday
🎨T.Pym

VICTORIAN XMAS After all nothing quite says Christmas like an amorous root vegetable or a group of pyromaniac sparrows. You have to love the darkness in Victorian Xmas cards #GothicAdvent

BEWARE JACK FROST This icy, hoary figure can be traced to a poem by C. Sangster in 1875. In 1902 he appeared in L. Frank Baum, author of the Wizard of Oz & is re-imagined by Rackham in Fairy Book 1916 & Wonder Book 1922 🎨Rackham; Ravenscroft #FolkloreThursday

FAIRIES & TOADSTOOLS
I imagine this is what you see on an autumn morning when you kneel and look under a toadstool @CentreMyth. Titania awakes on a toadstool 1785 ; Fitzgerald, #Fairy banquet on a toadstool 1859 #FolkloreThursday

DARK PINOCCHIO is set alight, enslaved to a puppet master, lynched by ruffians, swallowed by a fish & plunged alive into a pot before becoming A REAL BOY
Folkyard ills, 1914 Dent, for those who understand the power & symbolism of puppets @marcussedgwick and @LadyAntimonium

PUSS IN BOOTS also known as the 'robber kitten' is the most renowned animal outlaw and trickster in folklore. Popularised in Perrault (1628–1703) as Le Chat Botté, in English in Mother Goose, 1780 & The Blue Fairy Book, 1889. Ills. Doré c.1870; Robber Kitten, 1887 #WyrdWednesday

HAWTHORN Sitting under a ‘hag thorn’ can lead to abduction by fairies. A single bush is often left to grow in the middle of a field rather than risk the wrath of the fae by cutting it down. The fruit or ‘haws’ are known as ‘pixy pears’ #botanicalgothic 🎨Rackham

VINTAGE HALLOWEEN FAIRIES reminding us that fairies and goblins were once as likely to be found on Halloween as vampires and witches!! #31DaysofHalloween #GothicFairies

FAIRIES & SOULS Wentz recorded the belief in fairy hosts as the evil dead & Cornish Peskies as the souls of unbaptised babies, appearing at Twilight in the form of moths, The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries, 1911 🎨White plume moth; Pirnir, funeral fairies, 1888
@MythologyMonday

VINTAGE HALLOWEEN cards to mark day 2 of #31DaysofHalloween Black Cats, Witches & Bugaboo Bats @OGOMProject for #Caturday