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“Come fairies, take me out of this dull world. For I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
-W.B Yeats, The Land Of Heart's Desire

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The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground; a classic about a beautiful locked away. The King had an underground castle built, sealed with charms, then killed the architect. For any who found his Daughter could marry her; so many died trying.

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Bluebeard’s secret, locked chamber is burned in fairy-tale memory. Perrault’s French, 17thc version is the tale we know. It haunts us: his murdered wives stowed away & hidden in that secret room, the bloody key -the symbolism & histories are rich. (See below 🗝)

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The music of the harp is often used to lure humans into Fairyland...



🎨Charles Vess

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The surrealist and otherworldly Gothic-style artwork by Yaroslav Gerzhedovich

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Wonderful theme!
Not quite sure if this is on target but I was reading the Bluebeard story recently -- there is a door that is forbidden but entered...

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The fantastic brought my book babies to life! 😍 These are my Sleeping Beauty characters: Seelie Prince Loren, Princess Briar Rose, The Unseelie King, and Asra the wyvern.

I’m in love with this WIP and can’t wait to publish it this spring!

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ELFLAND is associated with the land of the dead; mortals who enter are only released if they are able to perform some task of value to the fae. The entrance is said to be underground or in the 'inbetween'; a doorway in forests, hills, stone or mountains Doré

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“Oh, there were all sorts of things to wonder about, but the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of beach, and it was for only one of two things: opening or leaving closed.”

- Stephen King, The Drawing Of The Three

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In Celtic lore the primrose belongs to the fey. Primroses on your doorstep invite faery blessings, but if you find a clump of primroses in a wood be warned - it is said to be the entrance to the faery realms from which you may never return. Img: Cicely Barker

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'The Enchanted stream ... in Mirkwood ... Anyone who drank or bathed in the stream's water would fall into a deep sleep and suffer amnesia when finally waking...' Tolkien drew upon Greek mythology about the River of Lethe. https://t.co/U3jOyMtvZe

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According to Scandinavian folklore, trolls live inside mountains, rocks, and caves, far away from human habitation. They are not solitary beings, and usually live together in small family units, forming communities of trolls that dwell inside the mountains.

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FAIRY PORTAL
..in pathworking, you can enter the fairy realm, through well, hill, sea, cavern, rock opening, wooded glade. Watery places symbolise the fluidic nature of time and space within the fairy realm..#FairyTaleFlash

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"A Vella" ( = 'the Old Woman') holding the standing stone called "Pena Molexa" (#Galicia) with her finger, as local folklore claims.

🖌️ Artwork by Carlos Afonzo.

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What better way to start this new year of than with John Bauer (1882-1918) - beloved Swedish illustrator of fairytales. ✨

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Norwegian  White-Bear-King-Valemon is one of my favs! Where a young girl finds the white bear from her dreams. Who is really a King under the spell of a Our hero falls in love with the King & moves to his castle where he is human at night.

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Anansi the Spider's neighbors each made eight delicious meals and offered him some, but he didn't know whose house to go to; so he tied webs to his legs to be pulled when the food was ready: each pulled at the same time, stretching his legs out long!

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"Sinbad the Sailor" illustrated by Mikhail Maiofis in 1991

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"Sinbad the Sailor" illustrated by Mikhail Maiofis in 1991

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