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This charming image is from Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen (1845) a fairy tale concerning the epic journey of a girl, Gerda, who must rescue her friend Kai from the Snow Queen's ice palace.
Gerda and the Reindeer - Edmund Dulac
#FairyTaleTuesday

Cockaigne, the medieval peasant’s dream. Cheese rains from the sky, wine flows in the streams. A widespread idea of Utopia in the 12th century Europe, who today would not like to live where geese roast themselves & roofs were made of bacon?
#WyrdWednesday

March covers of Murzilka ;
Cute vintage illustrations of spring on retro magazine covers in Soviet Union.
#sovietpostcards #FairyTaleTuesday

Nacken in Norse mythology were male water spirits who played enchanted songs on the violin, luring women and children to drown in lakes . They are comparable to green skinned Wicked Jenny of English folklore.
#WyrdWednesday
art by Johnan Egerkrans

The Curupira are demonic fairies of Brazilian folklore, who resembles a dwarf with red hair. They prey on poachers and hunters who take more than they need and they create a high pitched whistling sound to drive its victim to madness.
#FairyTaleTuesday

In Virgil's Aeneid, the river god Tiberinus appears to Aeneas in a dream to tell him his son is destined to found the great city of Alba. He will know place when he sees this omen: a spotless white sow with thirty white piglets. #MythologyMonday

In Finnish mythology, Siberian Jay could hold human souls. The souls that passed on into a Siberian jay were hunters, witches, people who had gotten lost and died in the forest. Sometimes even forest sprites would move into a jay.
#FairyTaleTuesday

"Dancing bones aren’t sinister and are one of the few forms of echoed life tolerated by Grandfather Funeral. They are the leftovers of wholesome souls . . ."
- Hulpi’s Helpful Tome
Dance of Death, 1820
#FaustianFriday