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One of my favourite fairy tales is The Seven Ravens in which a father curses his sons and turns them into ravens. Their little sister travels to the sun, the moon, the morning star and the Glass Mountain to save them.

🎨Oskar Herrfurth
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Falling in love with The Arrival of the King and Queen of Fairies by E Stuart Hardy.🧚‍♀️💙

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In Scotland Nicnevin is said to be a Queen of the Faeries. According to Walter Scott she's believed to be a sort of mother witch or the Scottish Hecate who 'rode on the storm and marshalled the rambling host of wanderers under her grim banner.'

🎨Thomas Maybank
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In 1862 two men who were transporting timber in Wales saw fifty fairy-like figures dancing near a hill before the figures vanished. Moments later, these fairies reappeared and danced in a circle. Then, one by one they disappeared in the ground.

🎨Diefenbach
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In 1884 a mail-cart driver from the Isle of Man had a fascinating tale to tell. He was beset by a troop of fairies who threw his mail-bags on the road and danced around them. This went on until daybreak and the poor man was late for work.

🎨Bartolomeo Giuliano
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One of my favourites is The Frog Princess. There are different versions but three brothers shoot arrows to find a bride. Two of them land on the houses of important and wealthy families, the third lands in a swamp in the mouth of a frog.

🎨Vasnetsov
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The Lady of the Lake is often depicted as evil in medieval literature but in 'Le Morte d'Arthur' she has a very good reason to entrap Merlin under a rock. He has fallen in love with her and will not leave her alone.

🎨Rackham & Speed Lancelot
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'The fairies are dancing — how nimbly they bound!
They flit o'er the grass tops, they touch not the ground;
Their kirtles of green are with diamonds bedight,
All glittering and sparkling beneath the moonlight.'
-Mrs. G. G. Richardson

🎨 George Cruikshank

Grendel and his mother lived in a marsh near the mead hall of king Hrothgar.

'Till the monster stirred, that demon, that fiend
Grendel who haunted the moors, the wild
Marshes, and made his home in a hell.'

🎨J. R. Skelton
#SwampSunday

In Scotland Nicnevin is said to be a Queen of the Faeries. According to Walter Scott she's believed to be a sort of mother witch or the Scottish Hecate who 'rode on the storm and marshalled the rambling host of wanderers under her grim banner.'

🎨Thomas Maybank
#FaustianFriday