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2. "The Swineherd" #FairyTaleTuesday
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"Be off with you!" the king said in a rage. Both Princess and swineherd were turned out of his empire. There she stood crying. The swineherd scolded, and the rain came down in torrents"
#illustration by Jiri Trnka
#FairyTaleTuesday "The Swineherd", by Hans Christian Anderson https://t.co/QMjUxksWrz
"Such naughtiness!" the king said, when he saw them kissing; he boxed their ears with his slipper, just as the swineherd was taking his 86th kiss"
illustration by Barbara C. Freeman c1950s
In Britain, since at least late 19thC, it was thought to be bad luck to mend clothes whilst they were still being worn. What form the ill fortune would take varied from being cursed never to be rich to having evil thought/spoken of the unlucky one #FolkloreThursday
🎨 AJ Murray
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Brownies painting the leaves, #illustration by J C Gilbert
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"Art thou from the snowy zone
Of a mountain summit blown
Or the blossom of a dream
Fashioned in the foamy stream
Nay, methinks the maiden moon
when the daylight came too soon
Fleeting from her bath to hide
Left her garment in the tide"
"Water-lily", J B Tabb
'Chicken Licken' #illustrationart by
1. Harry Rountree (1878-1950, NZ > GB)
2. Richard Scarry (1919-1994, American)
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Hamelin, Germany, has medieval records stating the loss of 100+ youngsters. Theories as to why vary from work migration, to an outbreak of St Vitus' Dance, where ppl are said to have danced themselves to death
book #illustrationart by Eulalie, pub. Dean 1948
#FolkloreThursday Slavic tale "The Good Ferryman"
3 sons inherit a ferry boat, but when the youngest's kind heart is rewarded with magical gifts, his bros trick + rob him. He bounces back, then the king covets his beautiful wife
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🎨 Cecile Walton c. 1920