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- Boys used to be clothed in dresses for ease in toilet training, but (it is said in certain circles) also to confuse spirits who might steal them away! Paining of Henry Gibbs by Freake-Gibbs - Boston 1670

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John Duncan's critically acclaimed 1914 depiction of 'The Children of Lir', an episode in Irish Mythology in which a group of divine children are transformed into swans.

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2020-11-19

Water fairies found in ponds in the Netherlands, do not have wings. They can fly by being encased in bubbles and traveling on the winds. Main home is the River Elbe, as it is sacred to them. Small fairies, extremely light and sometimes shift into otters.

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2020-11-19

My trolls so far this week.

I love seeing a collection coming together, even if it's just a few...just a small start.

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2020-11-19

Scandinavian trolls were described as stupid and slow, and were rumored to keep bears as pets. Their simple lifestyle was one of peace unless they felt threatened, in which case they would respond with savage violence.

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2020-11-19

"Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."

William Butler Yates, The Stolen Child
🎨Adam Oehlers

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2020-11-19

In the fens a mother would never suckle her child during a thunderstorm as it was thought to taint her milk with brimstone and sulphur.

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2020-11-19

Changelings (or aufs/oafs) are creatures from religious folklore in Europe.

They were believed to be fairy children, that replaced human children to be cared for. This theme became popular to reflect on infants with disorders and disabilities.

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Remembering Hilda Boswell (1903-1975) illustrator of The Treasury of Nursery Rhymes & other children’s books.

Working in watercolours, she brought rhymes to life, often wearing delightful period costumes.

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Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (1888-1960), was a Melbourne-born illustrator who created fairy images in Australian settings. Working at the same time as Arthur Rackham & Cicely Mary Barker, she raised the bar for in children’s publishing in her country.

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2020-11-19

In Navajo lore, two important female figures are Changing Woman, who represents the changing seasons, & White Shell Woman. The former became pregnant by spreading her legs to the sun, the latter by lying in a stream & becoming the wife of water.

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2020-11-19

Conhecida como uma devoradora de crianças, Cuca, a bruxa jacaré das matas é a Rainha do folclore brasileiro e musa inspiradora de pesadelos
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2020-11-13

Here be Dragons! 🐲🐉🐲 Got out my Dragon Pen to send off some special orders signed by author and illustrator

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2020-11-13

Medusa was beheaded by Perseus, who thereafter used her head to turn onlookers to stone. Later on, he gave Medusa's head to the goddess Athena to place it on her shield. In classical antiquity, the image of the head of Medusa appeared in the Gorgoneion amulet.

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2020-11-12

The Orkney Finnmen From Early Modern to Modern - an interesting long-read for from
- & 'explained'?

https://t.co/XYH0vtE2ry

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2020-11-12

Can you spot what isn’t different?
Rossetti clearly loved this spiral hair ornament and gave it different models to wear. Apparently it was last seen when borrowed by blackmailer Charles Howell’s wife who never returned it….
(Thanks https://t.co/tejk8l5lLJ)

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2020-11-12

Good morning friends thank you for a fascinating start this is donning her faerie crown to guest host for the next hour of lore surrounding how we look, adornment and ornamentation...now...where's my wand gone?

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2020-11-12

"On Saturday night shall be my care
To powder my locks, and curl my hair.
On Sunday morning my love will come in,
When he will marry me, with a gold ring
~ Trad nursery rhyme


by Einar Nerman (1888-1983, Swedish)

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2020-11-12

Mad as a hatter may derive from sarcastic French simile
"Il raisonne comme une huitre" -he reasons like an oyster.

🎨John Tenniel

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2020-11-06