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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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2023-02-14

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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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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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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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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Beautiful movie: set in 19th century Italy with an operatic score. bower will remind you of Victorian paintings. https://t.co/j4UKcRaPUD

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2023-02-01


An old-school fairy I created back in 1989 and my style was developing as a young artist.

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2023-02-01


by Winefred V. Barker, from "The Emerald Fairy Book", pub. Hutchinson 1920s

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We can't help but adore Jareth, the goblin king from Labyrinth. Though, if I could turn into an owl and fly around, I'd probably find cooler things to do than taunting a whiney teen and stealing a baby. https://t.co/6Qk9lltr6t

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2023-02-01

In the land of fairy tale, helpers are often small. With the Brothers Grimm collecting tales, in 1812 they gave us Snow White & her friends, the tiny dwarves. Whether inspired by Ovid, Basile, or the true story of a German C16th countess, their tale endures🍎🖤#FairyTaleTuesday

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Her angel's face,
As the great eye of heaven, shined bright,
And made sunshine in the shady place;
Did never mortal eye behold such heavenly grace.

—Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene (1590)

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Herr Birre och Trollen (Troll Trouble)

by John Bauer

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2023-02-01

A little treat with the Dundee Dragon! Art by ! 🐉🧝🏼‍♀️⚔️🐺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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