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Vivianne, (aka Nimue, Nineve, etc.) is the Lady of the Lake who gives Excalibur to Arthur. As a sorceress, she seals Merlin's fate by capturing him in a tree, (or cave), being the only person with the power to enchant him.
🪄🧙‍♂️ #FairyTaleTuesday

"In their courses make that round,
In meadows and in marshes found.
Of them so called the Faerie ground.
Of which they have the keeping."

The Court of Faery, by Michael Drayton ca 1906
#BookWormSat #fairytales

In the Gilgamesh flood #myth, god Enlil seeks to destroy the earth when humans become too noisy. God Ea, who created humans out of clay & divine blood, warns hero Utnapishtim & offers detailed instructions to build a boat so humans can survive the deluge. 🌊⛵️ #FairyTaleTuesday

The Many Varieties of Cats 🖤🐈‍⬛
Omocha-e (toys for children) - Meiji era, ca 1868
🎨Utagawa Yoshifuji (1828 – 1887), a Japanese ukiyo-e printmaker & student of Utagawa Kuniyoshi.
#CatsOfTwitter #cats

The 'Land of the Ever Young'
By Arthur Rackham, Irish Fairy Tales (ca 1920).
🪄 #Fairytales

June almanac calendar from 1892. 💐 #HappyJune

"Now don't suppose that there is only bare white sand at the bottom of the sea. No indeed! The most marvelous trees & flowers grow down there, with such pliant stalks & leaves."

🧜 The Little Mermaid, Andersen
#fairytales #mermaids

Venus was running along & pricked her foot on a thorn. A beautiful red rose sprang up from the blood that flowed from her wound. 🦶🌹 #fairytales #Myth

"Fairies & pixies are very fond of these flowers. 🌷 Every night they brought their babies to the old woman’s garden, & the tulips sang and rocked the little pixies to sleep."😴 🌷 #flowers #fairytales

In the story of 'The King of Ireland's Son', the eldest son wins the hand of Feldelma, an Enchanter's Daughter & a Swan Maiden, who he must rescue when she's kidnapped by the King of the Land of Mist. 🦢 #FairyTaleTuesday #swan