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#FairyTaleTuesday - Haida Tales: Raven and the Coming of the Salmon https://t.co/sg3G3SV79R
Stage 4 - Redon à Fougeres:
The Tour Mélusine, built in one night by the fairy Mélusine w/ three apronfuls of stones & a mouthful of water. Mélusine made her husband swear to never look on her in the bath. He broke his vow & she flew away.
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The Nightingale fairy tale is thought to have been inspired by Hans Christian Anderson’s love for Jenny Lind, the opera singer called the “Swedish nightingale". 💛
Illustrations: Heorhiy Narbut 1912
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The phoenix is a solar bird, a symbol of rebirth as the sun sets and rises again at dawn.
"Know that the psyche has its own
Fame, [...] that
Soul can flame like feathers of a bird.
Grow into your own plumage, brightly,
So that any tree is a marvelous city."
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Eagles hold a high esteem in Mongolian culture in part because of Chinnghis Khan's pet eagle, Garid. The hunting bird was his constant companion and thus his descendants revere the eagles; in Mongolian wrestling, garid is a title given to victors in recent years #FairyTaleTuesday
Battle for the bridge of Bottles on the phantasmal island of Hopeless, Maine #FairyTaleTuesday
The Roc is a giant bird of prey featuring in mythology throughout the Middle East. It is large enough to carry off an elephant & features in 4 stories of the Arabian Night, including in the tales of Sinbad, where he's trapped in a Roc's nest on one occasion. #FairyTaleTuesday
Thread: #Birds! 🎨The Morrigan (Irish goddess of death, with her ravens) ©Ameluria 📷Children of Lir (4 children turned into swans by step-mum Aoife) by sculptor Oisín Kelly, in Garden of Remembrance (Dublin) ©Mo ainm #Ireland #FairyTaleTuesday 🦢🪶🐦🦉🦚 https://t.co/fjeM58vj1F
Illustrations by Lola Anglada, circa 1920, for 'The Blue bird' fairy tale by Madame d'Aulnoy (1650-1705)
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“Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” ("The Little Prince")
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born #OTD 1900 in Lyon.
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In the Belgian tale "The Swan Maidens & the Silver Knight," seven swans (actually seven cursed princesses turned into swans) help a knight rescue an imprisoned princess. The latter helps the cursed princesses regain human form by knitting seven magic coats. #FairyTaleTuesday
The Sleeping Beauty, Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1890.
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#FairyTaleTuesday - Japanese Folktales: The Dream of Akinosuke – Ants, Dreaming Humans and the Butterfly Soul https://t.co/eG3qD6vgt4 #sleep #dreaming
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream Oberon places the juice of the flower love-in-idleness (heart’s-ease) on sleeping Titania’s eyelids, so that she “will madly dote upon the next live creature that she sees.”
Img: The heart’s-ease flower fairy by Cicely Mary Barker #FairyTaleTuesday
Falling in love with this painting depicting Wotan and the sleeping Brunhilde by Ferdinand Leeke. 💙
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PRINCESS AND THE PEA
A prince who wanted to find a real princess to marry, found her after his mother slipped a pea in below 20 mattresses & had princesses sleep on them overnight. The real princess woke up the next day from a sleepless night & bruised.
In “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving (1783–1859), Van Winkle drinks liquor with some peculiar men playing nine pins in the Catskill mountains & wakes up 20 years later- echoing cautionary tales of humans who eat or drink in Faery.
🎨 N.C.Wyeth (1882–1945) #FairyTaleTuesday
Salamandra crosses the Bridge of Bottles in Hopeless, Maine- An island lost in time and a darker sort of fairy tale. #FairytaleTuesday