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When the protagonist finds the crazy dogs in The Tinderbox.

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I don't know if I got this right, but are we talking crows and ravens on today? Such intelligent birds, I'ave drawn a lot of them because lets face it - they are magic! https://t.co/dG4CXGk5sT

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SARAH: Oh, I can never remember that line... "You have no power over me..."

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2021-06-30

In the ancient pine forests on thr Caribbean isle of Andros, tread carefully: Chickcharney live here. Trickster spirits that resemble owls with fingers, toes, and a prehensile tail, if you treat them kindly, they bless you with good luck. If not? Run faster.

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- Haida Tales: Raven and the Coming of the Salmon https://t.co/sg3G3SV79R

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2021-06-29

Tommelise borne on the Swallow's back to the South, where she sees the Fairy Flower-Prince.

—Hans Christian Andersen, Thumbelina
Illustration by Eleanor Vere Boyle (1872) 💛#FairyTaleTuesday

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2021-06-29

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

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Battle for the bridge of Bottles on the phantasmal island of Hopeless, Maine

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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.

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Thread: 🎨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 🦢🪶🐦🦉🦚 https://t.co/fjeM58vj1F

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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 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.

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The Sleeping Beauty, Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1890.

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2021-06-23

- Japanese Folktales: The Dream of Akinosuke – Ants, Dreaming Humans and the Butterfly Soul https://t.co/eG3qD6vgt4

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2021-06-23

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

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