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Fairy Realm by Gustave Dore/ Tom Hood (1866) beautiful illustrations painful rhyming. #FairyTaleTuesday
"What more ? The good fairy returned on the scene,
And, instead of the garb which was really not clean,
At a touch of her wand, in a dress of rare sheen"
#scaryfairies In 1317 the Bronach of Burren appeared at Lough Rasga, County Clare as Seean mac Craith records, washing the bodies of soldiers about to be killed in battle in blood. "She was thatched with elf locks, foxy grey and rough like heather, matted and like long sea-wrack"
Walter Crane's Flora's Feast: A Masque of Flowers (1889). The flower fairy is born.... #folklorethursday
Walter Crane's A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden (1898) creates a folkloresque treatment of flowers. Each bloom is given a #fairytale character. #folklorethursday