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The true magic the fairy godmother performs is the shifting of context through which Cinderella is viewed. People’s perception of Cinderella changes, while beneath the fine trappings, she remains the same.
🎨Edmund Dulac (1882-1953)
#FairyTaleTuesday ✨
The 16th century Ripley Scroll is an alchemical manuscript that describes the production of the Philosopher’s Stone. 23 scrolls exist and are associated with alchemist, George Ripley.
Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Digital Images
#FolkloreThursday ✨
Zelinda and the Monster, (1885)
(The Italian Beauty and the Beast)
First recorded in Thomas Frederick Crane’s Italian Popular Tales ✨
🎨Anne Anderson, (1935)
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The most memorable books from our childhoods are those that make us feel less alone, convince us that our own foibles and quirks are both as individual as a finger-print and as universal as an open hand.
—Madeleine L'Engle
🖋A Wrinkle in Time
🎨Tullio Pericoli
#WyrdWednesday ✨
🍃 her hair grows into foliage, her arms into branches,
her foot, just now so swift, clings by sluggish roots,
her face has the top of a tree: a single splendor remains in her.
—Ovid
Metamorphoses
Apollo and Daphne
🎨Paolo Veronese (1528-1588)
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