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Winefred V. Barker (that is the correct spelling, apparently)

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2023-02-15


Happy Valentine's Day 💖

(Art by Me from way back in 2007!)

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2023-02-15

In "The White Cat" tale, a prince is sent by his father on a series of impossible tasks & arrives at a castle populated by cats & ruled by a white cat queen. She helps him & they fall in love. In the end, he cuts her head off & she turns into a human princess.

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2023-02-14

In the Solway Firth, a mermaid fell in love with a sailor whom she rescued when his ship ran aground. She slipped a gold ring on his finger and promised to return to him, but after many years of waiting, he died, alone


: Arthur Rackham

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2023-02-14

Gan Ceanach is known as the love talker. A Northern Irish fairy with dark eyes and no shadow, birds went silent when he appeared in the lonely glens, seducing young maidens before vanishing, leaving them to pine to death...

🎨Pirner

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2023-02-14


Nothing was colder or more dead than his heart. He had loved an angel and now he despised a woman.
–Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera.

🎨Sulamith Wülfing.

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2023-02-14

The original English tree is the Crab Apple. Ancient lore says that if you throw its pips into the fire while chanting the name of your beloved, they will explode if your love is true & lasting. Image: Cicely Mary Barker

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O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,

Ode to the West Wind
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Boreas / Waterhouse

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2023-02-08


Art credit: Barbara C. Freeman, British (1906-1999) Mother Holle

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2023-02-08

Little Red Riding Hood Looking for the Wolf

Art credit: Linda Ann Strang generated on Deep AI

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2023-02-08

"The Battle of Sơn Tinh and Thủy Tinh" is a Vietnamese myth behind monsoon flooding; a fight between Mountain God and Lord of Waters to win the hand of a princess, ending in perpetual grudge of the water lord.

A tale for theme of weather. 1/4

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2023-02-08

2023 marks the 200th anniversary of the first English translation of the Grimms' Kinder- und Hausmärchen, translated by Edgar Taylor and illustrated by George Cruikshank. Throughout 2023, we will be sharing excerpts and holding events to celebrate. Stay tuned!

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2023-02-07

In Mme d'Aulnoy's fairytale, Prince Adolph of Russia ends up on the island of Eole, god of winds.
A playful Zephir aids him in reaching the Island of Happiness, where they both meet in secret with their beloved.
🖼️William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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2023-02-07

In Philppine lore, after a storm Maria Makiling walks the forest repairing broken branches, bird nests, and healing broken wings of butterflies. Wherever she walks the sun shines, birds sing, flowers bloom, animals play. https://t.co/3Y8vDLSSIa

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2023-02-07

WIND 🌬️ Do you ever wonder what those faceless phantoms are trying to tell you when they knock your window? Voices, rising... But you can't catch the wind (The Wind song) My own music and art 🎵🎨 https://t.co/VSQEk74mgF

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2023-02-07

For , an Irish fairy tale in which the heroine, Margaret, elopes with a prince, saves him and his entire crew from a sea monster, and fights a giant: https://t.co/udK6DYafBp

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2023-02-07

"'Is the spring coming?' he said. 'What is it like?'...
'It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...'"
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
🎨 Springtime by Pierre Auguste Cot

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2023-02-07

"Under that benign sky I watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth."
-Wuthering Heights

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2023-02-07