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woops, forgot to update twitter. Turns out the King has 3 daughters who were ready to be married... and there is a catch (it is a fairy tale after all)

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2021-10-12

Known for his beauty, Narcissus rejected all romantic advances & eventually fell in love with his own reflection in a pool of water into which he stared for the rest of his life. In some variants of his tale, Narcissus turned into the flower that bears his name.

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'Then will he dreadfully return,
And from my veins life's juices drain;
Whilst, slumb'ring, I with anguish mourn,
And toss with agonizing pain!'
-John Stagg, the vampyre.

🎨Antoine Wiertz

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2021-10-12

In Slavic myth Leshy, a forest guardian whose temperament blows hot & cold, is a shapeshifting trickster. Known for leading astray unwary travellers, abducting naughty children & unbaptised babies. However make him laugh & he’ll warm to you.

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2021-10-12

Fairy tales were often emotional maps for children. For centuries, mortality rates were high & many children lost their mother. As in Cinderella, fairy godmothers were ghostly, maternal surrogates & cast loving spells. 💫📚

🎨Rackham, Abbot, Tuck publisher

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2021-10-05

The Irish hero Cuchulainn found Morrigan washing his bloody clothes in a stream and he knew that he would die in battle. This image survives in folklore in characters such as Gaelic "bean níghe" or the "lavandeiras" of the Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. https://t.co/A5FGpwHKOm

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Charles Dickens, “A Christmas Carol”
Illustrated by Carter Goodrich.💛

👻

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2021-10-05

When I was a wee lass, my friends & I would play the Nancy Drew PC games. One of our favourites was, The Haunting of Castle Malloy, where the mystery revolves around a Banshee that completely scared the bejeezus out of us! Thanks for the scare 👻#FairyTaleTuesday

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While Banshees are best known for their angry screams, a few take a different approach to warn people. Some will sing a sorrowful haunting song of concern and love a few days prior to one’s death. Though this song can only be heard by the one it’s intended for.

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“Once in a great while he remembered that he had felt pain, a terrible ache in his heart, & he swore he would never let himself feel love for a human again.”— The Boggart, Susan Cooper

A boggart is an ogre like creature who haunts houses, fields & marshes.

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2021-10-05

Lagahoo is a shape-shifting wolf, who sold his soul to kill without being caught. At night, he drags a coffin of the souls he slaughtered

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2021-09-29

Jack + the Beanstalk Jack, en route to market to sell his cow, swapped her for a handful of magic beans instead. Later he stole a golden harp from a fierce ogre; the harp sang and played enchanting music

Charles Folkard
Gustaf Tenggren

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The Princess of Ys kept an enchanted key around her neck, which controlled the entirety of Ys' aqueducts and water ways. Satan infiltrated the city off the coast of Bretagne, and stole the enchanted key, sinking the sea into the Atlantic.

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His fish hook is legendary, bringing up islands across the Pacific so humanity can find new homes. Māui got these islands from the bottom of the sea, or in some cases like the North Island of New Zealand, from a fish baited with his own blood.

🖼: T.C. Wolfe

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2021-09-28

Some believe that all mirrors are magical!
Alice, climbing up the mantelpiece and into "Looking-glass House," the house reflected in the mirror 🪞
Lewis Carroll's, Through the Looking-Glass, illustration by Arthur Rackham.

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🌿 Pan's flute
by Walter Crane and Frank C. Papé
for 🎶

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