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The tale of the Pied Piper is said to have grown out of an event in summer 1284, when 130 children were lured away from the German town of Hamelin.... https://t.co/7hQSPNXSgH
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1. by Margaret Evans Price
2. by Quentin Blake
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"Alice in the pool of tears", by Ada Leonora Bowley (1866-1943, English)
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@MrFlibble72LFC I hear it's your birthday today; hope you're enjoying a great day!
#FairyTaleTuesday "Grimm's Fairy Tales", Ward, Lock & Co., 1938.
Illustration by Harry G. Theaker
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#illustration by Frank Cheyne Papé (1878-1972, English) for "The Nightingale Robber"
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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)