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Along Hardknott Pass, faeries have their home and Cumbria’s Faerie King Eveling holds his court. He is an intriguing figure because of his mythological connections, his name may be connected to Avalon of Arthurian Legend

The Death of Arthur by James Archer

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Edmund Dulac’s for Stories from the Arabian Nights, , 1907. This Golden Age edition proved so popular that during WW1 copies were sent to troops in the trenches, in an effort to provide comfort through childhood nostalgia.

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Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye;
Four and twenty blackbirds
Baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened,
The birds began to sing;
Wasn't that a dainty dish
To set before the king?


🖼: Margaret Tarrant

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My preferred method of ghost transport...


by Anne-Julie Aubry

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The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen is a tale about eleven princes who are turned into swans. Their sister, Lisa must save them by spinning nettles into thread to make eleven coats. She must not speak a word until she is done or her brothers will die.

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In the Puss 'n Boots fairy tale, a youngest son gets seeming short-shrift in the inheritance, a single tomcat. But the cat's ingenuity leads the young miller's son to marriage to princess and the title of Marquis of Carabas.

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The witch in HANSEL & GRETEL
was diabolically clever to me as a kid, as I knew I would never be able to resist a gingerbread/candy covered house.
🎨Liebich
🎨Feiertag
CHILDREN in for

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A perfect to celebrate the art of Adrienne Segur, who portrays the sadness and longing of children who find themselves lost, alone and betrayed, yet remain kind and faithful - even self-sacrificing to save another soul.

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In Irish fairytales The Children of Lir were turned into swans by their wicked stepmother. They lived on Lough Deravarragh before eventually going to Tir Na nOg

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Many are the Sons of Odin, and it may be easier to count sons who aren't Odin in Norse myth. All know Thor, Vali and Vidar, and Baldr, but some lists include Tyr, Bragi, Hermod, Hodr, and countless more. Some mortals even can claim descent from the All-Father.

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Of course she can’t actually do this. So she asks for help from a strange little man who agrees to do so in exchange for her firstborn. Years later when she gives birth to her first child, she is shocked when the little man appears…

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All the little boys and girls in Hamelin followed the Pied Piper


🎨Margaret Evans Price

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Little Brother and Little Sister is a Brothers Grimm tale about two children who are forced to flee their wicked witch of a stepmother. They run, are tired and thirsty, but every spring they come to is bewitched by their stepmother…1/4

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Arthur Rackham’s 1918 illustration for Catskin, an English Cinderella tale. A young girl is rejected by her father because she is female. She runs away & ends up working in a castle kitchen, goes to a number of balls in magical gowns & marries the prince.

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Youthful folly: contrary to the warnings of his father Daedalus, Icarus flies too close to the sun, leaving his father to grieve.
Disparate interpretations by:
Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966); Charles Robinson (1870–1937); Svetlin Vassilev (b.1971, Bulgaria)

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One of my favourite fairy tales is The Seven Ravens in which a father curses his sons and turns them into ravens. Their little sister travels to the sun, the moon, the morning star and the Glass Mountain to save them.

🎨Oskar Herrfurth

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Hansel and Gretel by Felicitas Kuhn, born in Austria in 1926

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'The King of Elfland's Daughter is a concept album by former Steeleye Span members Bob Johnson and Peter Knight. It was based on the 1924 fantasy novel of the same name by Lord Dunsany and recorded and released in 1977.' https://t.co/uK3EWXLQhg

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The Wild Swans
Hans Christian Andersen, 1838

Overprivileged Princess Elisa gets knocked down a few pegs, but dodges the trope of helplessness by using discipline and perseverance to free her 11 brothers from their evil stepmother’s spell.

🎨Yvonne Gilbert

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