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In the Italian tale "Biancabella & the Snake," a marquis's wife falls asleep in her garden, & a snake slithers up inside her. She later gives birth to twins: a human girl named Biancabella & a snake named Samaritana wrapped around her sister's neck.

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2021-08-24

The Goblin Ball from Labyrinth 🔮#FairyTaleTuesday

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2021-08-18


Another world... Another time...
In the Age of Wonder
THRA is the fantasy world of Henson's THE DARK CRYSTAL, my all time favourite movie. A film about balance and reconciling our light & shadow
Here my music tribute ”Gelfling song" https://t.co/5JNVHOEWNq

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2021-08-18

In the Elf Mound; the Elf King plans to marry his 2 daughters to the Goblin King's daughters! Dishes for the night's festivities included skewered frogs, fungus salad made of mushroom seed, & hemlock. But at the last moment, the goblins get shut out!

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2021-08-18

Some illustrations of Jack and the Beanstalk for from Arthur Rackham and Walter Crane.

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2021-08-17

“I am the queen whom everybody knows: I am the (wild) English rose.”

It was believed that fairies could become invisible by eating the fruit of the wild rose & turning anti-clockwise 3 times. If the process was reversed visibility could be restored. Img: CMB

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2021-08-17

Falling in love with The Arrival of the King and Queen of Fairies by E Stuart Hardy.🧚‍♀️💙

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2021-08-17

"The lady in the moon woke at the hour before every evening to watch the sun set and the moon rise above a dirty lake. The phoenix thought she had come to see him and his fiery plumes, but it was the moon she loved, the moon she woke for." Jennifer S. Cheng

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2021-08-17

One of the most well-known in is the kappa. A cucumber-loving water goblin that lives in rivers and lakes, this yokai has been known to grab passers-by and drag them to a watery death. More info and art here:
https://t.co/89P7gosdDd

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2021-08-17

If cattle are taken ill, they may be elf-struck, shot with a faerie arrow.
According to Cumbrian folklorist Marjorie Rowling, elves got the arrows from faeries, who got them from mermaids.
courtesy

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2021-08-17

“Troll, be thyself - and thyself alone!” (Henrik Ibsen "Peer Gynt")

Humming Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" is highly recommended now (aide-mémoire: https://t.co/ttluzC9g5f)

🖼️ Theodor Kittelsen "Peer Gynt in the Hall of the Mountain King" (1913)

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2021-08-17

In Teutonic mythology the Nibelungs are a race of dwarfs who guard a hoard of gold and magic treasures on behalf of their King Nibelung of Nibelheim (land of mist).

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2021-08-17

GOBLIN MARKET 1859 ills Rackham 1933 dark fae & the fallen

Never mind my bruises,
Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices
Squeez’d from goblin fruits for you,

Eat me, drink me, love me;
[....] For your sake I have braved the glen
And had to do with goblin men

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2021-08-17

"And you may lead a thousand men
Nor ever draw the rein,
But before you lead the Fairy Queen
'Twill burst your heart in twain."

He has slipped his foot from the stirrup-bar,
The bridle from his hand,
And he is bound by hand and foot
To the Queen of Fairy Land."

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2021-08-17

In Co Limerick esp, goddess Áine is known as Queen of the fairies! Sometimes represented by a red mare; can transform into one & never caught! Irish goddess of midsummer, love, fertility. In charge of crops/animals & associated with agriculture. 🧚🐎

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2021-08-17

In Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock's 'The Other Side' (1893), Lilith is a beautiful woman living in a shadowy land filled with werewolves & demonic creatures. She speaks an unknown language as has a magical influence on men, creatures & her strange world alike

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2021-08-17

In Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock's 'The Other Side' (1893), Lilith is a beautiful woman living in a shadowy land filled with werewolves & demonic creatures. She speaks an unknown language as has a magical influence on men, creatures & her strange world alike

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2021-08-17

Giant's Cave, Penrith is associated with two giants called Tarquin and Isir lived on a diet of human flesh. A practice which lost its appeal when Sir Lancelot slew Tarquin in battle

https://t.co/dR79xhRH82

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2021-08-17

In the folklore of the Anglo-Scottish Borders, the 'Brown Man of the Moors and Mountains' is a dwarf who serves as the guardian of wild animals. His dress is brown like winter bracken, sports frizzled red hair and eyes that glow.
🎨 Amanda Moffet

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2021-08-17