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#FairytaleTuesday In Oscar Wilde's "Happy Prince" tale, a statue of prince falls in love with a swallow. The prince asks the bird to give the gold & jewels he is covered with to the town's poor and the swallow being late to migrate south dies out of cold in the end💔.🎨Nika Goltz
This is Ukrainian edition of the Burmese fairytale "Cunning Snail" "Hitryi Ravlik" illustrated by Gennadiy Kuznetsov, Eugen Matveev, Michailo Shevchenko from 1978. #FairyTaleTuesday
This is Ukrainian edition of the Burmese fairytale "Cunning Snail" "Hitryi Ravlik" illustrated by Gennadiy Kuznetsov, Eugen Matveev, Michailo Shevchenko from 1978. #FairyTaleTuesday
#Caturday with amazing Hubert Hilscher's feline circus posters from the 1970's and 80's. "It seemed to me that a person who goes to the circus to see a trained lion will also want to see it on the poster: a lion that is real but different from the one that can be seen in the zoo"
According to the mother stork, all children want to have a new brother or sister. All of the boys who mocked the storks will not get a new sibling. One of the unborn babies in the pool is already dead. That baby will be delivered to the very bad boy's house. #SwampSunday 2/2
In Serbian mythology, Vodenjaci (water demons) are spirits of unbaptized or evil men who drown people in order to turn them into their servants, usually around water mills. Fishermen usually offer them animal sacrifices to be left alone. Image is by Ivica Stevanovic #swampsunday
Happy #Caturday! I have been admiring Edward Bawden's cat illustrations today. He had done in the 1950s a lot of work for Fortnum and Maison (a luxury department store) with Ruth Gill.
In the Korean legend “Sageumgap” the crow appears as a divine harbinger delivering the message that the king is about to be killed, saving his life. After this, the king designated an Ogiil (Crow Commemoration Day), observed with a ritual offering sticky rice. #faustianfriday
Terrifying #Caturday to all!
The image is by Jemima Blackburn from the book "The Lances of Lynwood" by Charlotte Yonge, 1855, engraved at Dalziel wood engravers.
#caturday for those who cannot choose #dogsoftwitter
Illustration by Nicole Claveloux