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#FairyTaleTuesday
#illustration by Frank Cheyne Papé (1878-1972, English) for "The Nightingale Robber"
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#FairyTaleTuesday
Old lore told of faries swapping mortal children for a 'changeling'. Some folk, believing they'd been so cursed, roasted, drowned or beat this child, causing mutilation or death
#illustration; Alice Bolingbroke Woodward (1862-1951 English)
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Traditional lore in Poland tells of water sprites, 'Rusalka', spirits of dead maidens who haunt the Earth, awaiting their chance to leech life force from mortals and other earthly beings #FairyTaleTuesday @FairyTale_Tues
#illustration by Frank Cheyne Papé (1878-1972, English)
#vintage book "The Fairy Tale Omnibus", pub. Collins 1953, #illustrations by Doreen Baxter #WorldBookDay
#WorldBookDay early 1970s Puffin paperback eds. of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" and "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", by C.S. Lewis. Illustration by Pauline Baynes.
#books #vintage