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#FairyTaleTuesday The youngest bro of three, the softie, is the last to be sent to chop wood, after misfortune befell his nasty bros. His kindness to a gnome is rewarded with a golden goose, so he heads to market, and attracts a crowd...
https://t.co/j5xkEoEFCf
🎨 Gustaf Tenggren
#FairyTaleTuesday Chicken Licken was walking one day when an acorn fell on her head. She thought the sky was falling, so she hurried to tell the King. On the way she alerted others, who joined her. Until they ran into a wily woodlander... https://t.co/srmdGUYjXM
🎨 Harry Rountree
#FairyTaleTuesday 'Brer Rabbit' came from tales brought and told by Africans used as slaves in USA. The trickster rabbit uses his wiles to outwit his adversaries and come out on top. Over time the animal characters changed form from African ones to those found in America
#FairyTaleTuesday "Little Red Hen"
LRH sets to sow, grow, reap and use wheat to make fresh bread, but when she asks farmyard friends to help, they scarper...
a tale of disappointment, determination, perseverance, and reward
#illustration Ethel Hayes c1942 https://t.co/wMGydiUeaY
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“Trnka, the very name conjures up childhood and poetry.” ~ Jean Cocteau
#FolkloreThursday
#illustrations Jiří Trnka
clip of "Arcangel Gabriel and Mother Goose" https://t.co/eurNO5UOVu
Grimms' "The White Snake" #FairyTaleTuesday A serf steals a morsel from the King's secret platter and is blessed with a special gift. On seeking hs fortune he gets a pitches to win the hand of a princess; succeed-or-perish.... https://t.co/1jzrk76Cy5
#illustration Rie Cramer
#FairyTaleTuesday
"There's always a woman somewhere, child; a princess, a witch, a stepmother, a mermaid, a fairy godmother, or one as wicked as she is beautiful, or as beautiful as she is good."
~Jeanette Winterson
#illustration
1. Alice Helena Watson
2. Willy Pogany
"The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ..."
~ Bruno Bettelheim #FairyTaleTuesday
#illustration by Anne Anderson (1874-1952, Scottish)
A fierce guardian of churches haunts the lore of many lands. England had 'church grims', said to toll the bell to herald a death. As the first laid to rest was fated to be the guardian, an animal was ritually interred in a new cemetery, so human souls could RIP #FolkloreThursday