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In HC Andersen’s “Snow Queen” a devil invents "a mirror which had the strange power of being able to make anything good or beautiful that it reflected appear horrid and all that was evil and worthless seem attractive & worthwhile.”
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2021-09-28

Everyone needs a little help at times. Where would Cinderella be without her fairy godmother and her magic wand ✨✨
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Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac
Galina Galinskaya, Millicent Sowerby

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✨The Queen and the Magic Mirror
Illustrations for 'Snow White' by A H Watson and Jennie Harbour for

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2021-09-28

'When you looked cleverly amongst the broken places between the at night, you saw the

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by Armando Sodano

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"New lamps for old!"
by Arthur Rackham, depicting Aladdin's magical lamp being traded by the housekeeper

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2021-09-28

SNOW QUEEN'S MIRROR is the work of a Hobgoblin; it makes anything good in the world appear bad & all that is evil & worthless seem attractive. If a fragment enters the eye you will see only faults, if a splinter enters your heart it will turn to ice🎨Ford & Pym

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Excalibur is the legendary and magical sword of King Arthur. Whoever wields this sword will become near invincible. After the death of King Arthur, Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur into the lake. A hand then rose from the water and took it under.

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Blackberries carry the devil’s curse on those who eat them after (30 Sep in the modern calendar) but can save your home from vampires. If a bush is planted nearby a vampire gets distracted by counting the berries, & forgets his harmful intentions.

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Magic beans - Just what's needed now! Jack and the Beanstalk Read & Play by Sue Weatherill.
Read the whole story: https://t.co/E2brWPngJG


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2021-09-27

Sometimes portals in fairy-tale novels & art take all forms: from Narnia’a wardrobe, to a knot in a tree, to Masefield’s box of delights, to Carroll’s Alice & those tiny doors. Often, the doorways were the most magical part. 💫
🎨Disney, Schmidt, BBC, & Tenniel

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2021-09-22

Mists are often a portal to otherworlds. In Gaelic regions of the Celtic world, mists not only act as a portal to Tir na nOg (and places in folklore like Hy-Brasil), but also protect places like Ireland and the Isle of Man from attack.

🖼: S. Reid

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2021-09-22

1921 faerie encounter:
"They seem to be bearing something which they give to the grass or the flowers at each stopping place, putting out their hand to touch the place where they come to rest, as if applying some substance, then they move swiftly away again"

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Iris is the messenger of the gods, moving between Olympus, Earth, and even Hades. Bringer of rainbows, she can ferry people as well as bring messages, making her an otherworldly courier service in Greek myth.

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2021-09-22

Even after all these years since I first read Through the Looking-Glass and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, I can’t pass a mirror or painting of the ocean without a magical flutter of hope. ✨

🎨John Tenniel
🎨Pauline Baynes

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2021-09-21

Does a mirror reflect our world back to us or show us somewhere else? Alice discovers that a looking-glass is a portal to a fantastical place in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice Found There
🎨 Evgenija Chistotina https://t.co/tXcSOolYiy

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'Tatterhood' the Norwegian about the Princesses born of magic. Where one was considered beautiful & the other ugly. When trolls attack the palace, the pretty one gets her head snatched off! To save her sister, Tatterhood must find the troll island.

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Psychopomps are often a specific type of Otherworldly messenger, as they guide the dead to their destination. Almost all cosmologies have them: famously, Hermes, Baron Samedi and Maman Brigitte, the Norse Valkyries, ravens across the world, and countless more.

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These remind me of the illustrations for 'The Elves and the Shoemaker' (Ladybird, 1965) done by Robert Lumley. I was in love with this edition when I was little. https://t.co/68BwMmIRut

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2021-09-21

An oldie for this
Raven bringing news to a nymph

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2021-09-21