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'Cinderella' - Edward Burne-Jones.
#FairyTaleTuesday #preraphaelite

Hansel and Gretel is a fairytale by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and the illustrations in this thread are by Monique Felix.
#fairytales
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The illustrations from The Nightingale in this and the first tweet are by François Crozat.
#FairyTaleTuesday
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In #JapaneseFolklore, the now extinct Japanese wolf features as okuri-okami (sending wolf) who followed home lost travellers ensuring they reached their destination safely. In these Japanese #ukiyoe prints by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, wolves are portrayed alongside the #FullMoon.

In #JapaneseFolklore, kijo are female demons. They appear as hideously ugly woman often with sharp horns, long claws, red eyes, wild hair & dressed in rags. These #yokai are women who were transformed into monsters due to jealousy, crimes or hatred.
#FolkloreThursday
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This week #WyrdWednesday is about all things green, so I'm going to tweet about the kappa, a #yokai from #JapaneseFolklore. Kappas are small reptilian creatures about the size of a small child. They live in lakes and rivers waiting to attack unsuspecting passers-by.
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'Song of the Sea' is a beautiful hand-drawn animated film about selkies. A boy discovers his mute sister Saorsie is actually a selkie and he blames her for their mother's disappearance. She has the task of freeing faerie creatures from the Celtic goddess Macha.
#MythologyMonday

Some say this is the earliest science fiction story as Princess Kaguya comes to Earth from the Moon to escape a celestial war and is later apparently returned to her extraterrestrial family on the moon in a round flying machine similar to a flying saucer.
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🎨by #StudioGhibli

'The Tale of Princess Kaguya' is a Studio Ghibli animated film based on the Japanese folktale of the bamboo cutter, an anonymous literary work from 1592. Kaguya is found by an old couple in a bamboo stalk & it is later discovered that she came from the moon.
#MythologyMonday
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'Seiobo Having a Swing' - full image.
#ukiyoe