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I hope you all have a Wind in the Willows kind of relaxing weekend. Hugs to you all ❤️ 🎨By Inga Moore
A part of me will always wish that we can, like Hansel & Gretel, find houses made of gingerbread deep in the woods, if we search hard enough. ☺️🌲🍭
#FolkloreThursday
🎨By Vogel, Kubel, Mattotti, Vtorenko
The German love of mysterious forests runs deep. So when Romanticism hit, the Grimms turned to Germany’s Black Forest for inspiration. Nearly 200 km of dense, pine forest made it a perfect setting for enchanted fairy tales. 💫🌲#FolkloreThursday
🎨 By Friedrich & Nielsen
Fairy godmothers, like their ancient forebears, the Fates, helped via their magic in fairy tales. In Cinderella, Perrault may have also been influenced by occult magic in courtly life a century prior to his era. 💫#FairytaleTuesday @EnchantedEzine
🎨By Dulac, Crane, Rackham
Watery enchantment fascinates us, as it did John Waterhouse. It’s lovely to see his studies for a work, as he played with ideas, for his luminous result: A Mermaid, c. 1900. Inspired by a Tennyson poem, Waterhouse inspires us. ☺️🧜♀️ #MermaidMonday
Happy Fairy Friday my friends! Let’s fly into the weekend on this fluffy feather by Amelia Jane Murray. She was a 19th-cen artist & noblewoman who loved exploring the world in miniature. She still inspires. ☺️💖🧚♀️ #FairyFriday
I feel like it might be a Secret Garden kind of a day. So here are Charles Robinson’s unforgettably stunning illustrations, for the 1911 edition, to Burnett’s magical novel. Hugs to you all today☺️🌹
I love imagined places. The island of Avalon, of Arthurian legend, is ripe with magic & lore. The chronicler, Geoffrey of Monmouth, wrote in 1136 that it was the island where King Arthur’s sword, Excalibur, was forged, & where his body was taken after battle. 🗡#FolkloreThursday
Let’s fly into the weekend with fun, fairy flair. Amelia Jane Murray’s miniature & Victorian fairy worlds were uniquely her own. I love them. ☺️💕🧚♀️#FaerieFriday
Watery enchantment can help with Monday’s austerity. So here are some sea nymphs, beauties, kelpies, & mermaids who are part of the sea lore that Warwick Goble (1862-1943) loved to draw. 🧜♀️💙#MermaidMonday