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European settlers in N.America believed hummingbirds were a cross between insects & birds & that the 'flying jewels' died in autumn after sticking their beaks into tree trunks, but were resurrected in the Spring #FairytaleTuesday #GothicSpring #OfDarkandmacabre
🎨 Kevin Sloan

According to Polish legend, a cat was crying as her kittens fell into the river chasing butterflies and a sympathetic willow tree rescued the drowning kittens with its long branches. Each Spring the willow sprouts catkins where the kittens clung to its branches
#FairytaleTuesday

"And when the owl stirred, a fine dust
fell from its wings. I was
silent then. And felt
the owl quaver."
(from "The Owl" from Arthur Sze)
🎨Teagan White

#OwlishMonday #GothicSpring #BookChatWeekly #ofdarkandmacabre

Siblings Snow White & Rose Red help a talking bear survive the winter and save the dwarf from danger several times. It transpires the bear was a prince the wicked dwarf put under a spell so he could steal the prince's treasure. When the bear kills the dwarf...
#FairyTaleTuesday

"Perched missile, almost invisible, you preen silent feathers, swivel your sleek satellite dish of a head. What fills the cool moons of your mesmerizing eyes?"
(from “Dark Emperor” by Joyce Sidman)
🎨Sophie Eves
#OwlishMonday

Concept art by Mary Blair (1911-1978) for Disney's Cinderella (1950) film, which was in development from 1922, hence all the versions of this magical transformation scene
#FairytaleTuesday

Cinderella’s fairy godmother turns a pumpkin into a carriage again & again & again…
#FairyTaleTuesday
#MaryBlair

E. T. A. Hoffmann´s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King illustrated by Gennady Spirin
#FairytaleTuesday #GothicAdvent #ofdarkandmacabre

To counter the ill-will of witches or evil spirits that mean you harm, wear ‘Elf-Arrows’ or ‘Fairie Darts’ set in silver or gold as a necklace.
#FaustianFriday #GothicAdvent

🎨 Ulla Thynell

Beautiful illustrations by Beatriz Martín Vidal (b.1973, Spain) for “Hansel and Gretel”, a brother & sister abandoned in the woods who come across a delicious gingerbread house inhabited by a hungry witch. They must outwit her to survive...
#FairytaleTuesday #ofdarkandmacabre