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"The Goose Girl" Grimm c1815 #FairyTaleTuesday
"Falada, Falada, thou art dead, and all the joy in my life has fled"
"Alas, alas, if your mother knew, her loving heart would break in two"
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1 Jiří Trnka (1912-69 Czech)
2 Anne Anderson (1874-1952 Scottish)
Alice at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party - #vintage #book #illustration by Marjorie Torrey (1899-1964, American) #FairyTaleTuesday
#vintage #illustration by John Berry for "Cinderella" in "The Wonder Book of Famous Tales", published by Odhams in 1938 #FairyTaleTuesday
"Mirror, mirror, on the wall
Who is the fairest of them all?" #FairyTaleTuesday
The wicked Queen from the "Snow White" tale, #illustration by Alice Helena Watson (1896 – 1984, British)
William Stott (British 1857–1900); 'Tristram's Farewell to Iseult' #FairyTaleTuesday
#art #painting
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