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❄️👑❄️The Snow Queen, by Hans Christian Andersen - a magical tale of how the brave and resourceful Gerda embarks on an epic quest to find and rescue her dearest friend Kai, who has been stolen away by a beautiful but cruel Enchantress.

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2023-03-07

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2023-03-01

‘The Princess on the Glass Hill’ is a beautiful & lesser known Norwegian fairy tale collected by Jørgen Moe and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen. I love the illustrations that were done for it over the years

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2023-03-01

Thread: In Belarus, when storytellers want to emphasise that something happened long time ago, they would say "in the old days, when people kept snakes in their houses"...

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2023-03-01

Legend has it that there is a breathtakingly beautiful crystal glass castle atop Nanga Parbat. It is home to the fairies.
To protect their home and their secrets, those who try to scale the peak meet their death.

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2023-03-01

Few mountain beasts are as terrifying as the terrible Roc, whose home can range from China to Madagascar, the deserts and the mountains. Only the largest of beasts is its prey, but for its babies, humans are ample enough.

🖼: EJ Detmold

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2023-03-01

- When the Aesir were tired of Loki's need of attention and never-ending tricks causing problems, he fled into the mountains where he built a castle of rocks.
From there, he kept watch in all directions and saw any approaching enemy. https://t.co/HuPjm51SII

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2023-02-28

The Roc/Rukh is a monsterous bird that can lift elephants into the sky & makes several appearances in the 1,001 Arabian Nights.
Art by Edward Julius Detmold
Plate from The Arabian Nights, 'The Roc Which Fed Its Young On Elephants.'

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2023-02-28

The mountain carries a meaning of transcendence, being a sacred space of wisdom & learning. In tales, the mountain is often climbed by the hero who will then meet at the summit either an old woman, a sage, or an animal - the agents of his magical initiation.

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2023-02-28

'Anya was not fond of the dark, or shadows, or of the sense of unease that grew whenever she let the flickering brightness dance.'
-The Shadows


https://t.co/zej4K6SvWG
by Elin Manon

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2023-02-28

To live is to war with trolls in heart and soul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

~Henrik Johan Ibsen, Peer Gynt
In the Hall of the Mountain King

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2023-02-28

Everyone could use a trio of enormous dogs to serve them, like the ones in my telling of The Tinderbox.

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2023-02-28

"She prayed silently, gathered the burning nettles,
and carried them home with her to the castle."

Illustration by Jan Marcin Szancer from The Wild Swans

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2023-02-28

The Ice Maiden by Edmund Dulac, from The Dreamer of Dreams, published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1915. The Ice Maiden, guarded by her bears, searches the snow & ice at night for broken hearts, which she keeps alive in her castle by warming in a circle of flames.

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BRAN CASTLE🦇
..of Dracula fame, associated with the story of the well known vampire, an example of the impressive Gothic architecture, of Transylvannian castles nestled in the Carpathian mountains..#fairytaleflash

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2023-02-28

Helios, Selene and Eos are heavenly siblings, the children of Titans Hyperion and Theia. Helios is the personification of the sun, his sister Selene the moon, and sister Eos the Dawn. Images: Edward Poynter Vision of Endymion, Vivien Leigh as Eos the dawn

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2023-02-22

"When they came nearer, they saw that the house was built of bread, and roofed with cakes, and the window was of transparent sugar."

Art by Jan Marcin Szancer from Hansel and Gretel

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2023-02-22

The Trojan side of the Trojan War is populated by more siblings than the gods: Priam had fifty sons and untold daughters, almost all of whom were involved in the war. Most famous were valiant Hector, fated Paris, and cursed Cassandra.

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