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Maud Margaret Key Stawell, Fairies I Have Met, 1910.
Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. #fairytaletuesday
Frank C Pape's illustrations At the back of the north wind by George MacDonald (1911)
#FairyTaleTuesday
#fairytaletuesday Æsop's fables illustrated by Rackham (1916)
#wyrdwednesday
Folklore on the Coasts of Connacht, Thomas Westropp, 1923.
23rd and 24th: St John's Eve and Day; Beltane fires lit.
"Carrying a coal from a Beltane fire brings luck to fishing if brought in the boat, and protects from fairies on shore."
#fairytaletuesday Fairy Realm illustrated by Gustave Dore 1866
He shouted, not a single head was raised
No single sound upon the silence broke
Nobody spoke
All heads alike were bowed
He shouted loud
As one who wishes to outroar a crowd
But not a word
He heard
No creature stirred
#fairytaletuesday Princess Nobody by Andrew Lang (1884) reemployed pictures from Dicky Doyle's In Fairyland creating a new story. "All the incidents of popular tales, like the bits of glass in a kaleidoscope, may be shaken into a practically limitless number of combinations"
#fairytaletuesday Fairies at Ilkley Wells. William Butterfield the bathman encountered some fairies when unlocking one morning. "all over the water and dipping into it was a lot of little creatures dressed in green from head to foot, none of them more than eighteen inches high"