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The mysterious food of Wonderland: a potion shrinks Alice, a cake makes her very tall & the caterpillar’s mushroom can make her small or tall…
🎨John Tenniel (for “The Nursery Alice”, 1890)
#WyrdWednesday #aliceinwonderland

Sinbad, in his second adventure (as recounted in 1001 Nights) voyages to a desert island where he finds the enormous egg of a Roc. When the gigantic bird approaches, Sinbad grabs its claw & is carried to the Valley of Diamonds & collects the desert's treasure. #FairytaleTuesday

In Brothers Grimm tale "The Seven Ravens" a father’s angry wish transforms his 7 sons into ravens; their sister learns from the stars they're locked inside a glass mountain, sacrifices her finger to unlock its door, frees them from the curse #FairyTaleTuesday
🎨Jana Heidersdorf

In “The Twelve Dancing Princesses” or “The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes” the King locks his daughters into their bedroom each night but come morning their shoes are worn to bits. Whoever can solve this locked room mystery wins the kingdom & a princess #FairyTaleTuesday
🎨Errol le Cain

In Norse mythology, Beyla (one of Freya’s servants) is said to be goddess of the bees and beekeeping. Bees are associated with wisdom and Yggdrasil the World Tree.
🎨 Q.Cassetti https://t.co/0qHCSSlL4q
#FairytaleTuesday #Norsevember

Lisbeth Zwerger specialises in fairy tale illustrations, her style inspired by Golden Age illustrators, particularly Arthur Rackham as her lovely use of colour and movement attest.
#FairytaleTuesday
#ArthurRackham

The adventures of Hans Christian Andersen's "Thumbelina" as illustrated by Austrian artist Lisbeth Zwerger (b. 1954).
#FairytaleTuesday
#Childrensbookillustrations (1/2)

An enchantment & a curse: In “Diamonds and Toads” a fairy rewards one sister for her kindness; flowers & gems fall from her mouth as she speaks. But her unkind sister is cursed for her rudeness; she spews toads & vipers when she talks #FairytaleTuesday
🎨 Gordon Laite (1925-1978)

Magician William S. Marriott came across Gambols With Ghosts: Mind Reading, Spiritualistic Effects, Mental and Psychical Phenomena & Horoscopy (1901), a secret catalog for mediums that offered items like fake ectoplasm, self-playing guitars, ghostly figures
#FaustianFriday (1/2)

Choctaw tale: Opossum bragged endlessly about his lovely bushy tail. Fed-up, Trickster Raccoon told Opossum his tail would be far prettier with stripes. If Opossum wrapped bark in bands around his tail & put it in the fire, he'd get stripes like Raccoon's...
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