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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.

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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)

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Salamandra crosses the Bridge of Bottles in Hopeless, Maine- An island lost in time and a darker sort of fairy tale.

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Washington Irving’s 1819 story, “Rip Van Winkle,” (set in pre-Revolutionary NY state) foretells much about modern nationalism —it’s full of wisdom about life, too. Note the pub’s name change. Here is Rackham’s take on this famous tale. ☺️

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'Sleeping Beauty' - Mizuno Toshikata, ca. 1900 - 1910.

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In an Iranian fairytale, a man whose life depends on a feather placed under his armpit falls into magical sleep due to his mistress's mistake in plucking that feather.The girl travels a lot till finds a magical oil & by rubbing it on the man's body wakes him up.

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In the Russian tale of Vasilisa, she receives an almost impossible task by Baba Yaga. Her doll advices her to go to sleep b/c ‘the morning is wiser than the evening' & when she wakes up the task is done. Sleep can put us in touch w/ our deep intuitive resources.#FairyTaleTuesday

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Fairytale art from Margaret Evans Price (American, 1888 - 1973). Co-founder of Fisher-Price Toys. Children's book illustrator and artist.

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'My love, she sleeps! Oh, may her sleep,
As it is lasting, so be deep!
Soft may the worms about her creep!'
Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Sleeper' https://t.co/TR6vICQ3gY Some lines echo 'Christabel' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
🎨Illustration for 'Morella' by Clarke

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'A young man sleeping dreams of a young woman' - Ogata Gekko, 1896.

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Know your elf from your elbow!
*cut out and keep with you on all woodland jaunts 🧝‍♀️

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In kanashibari is the term used for sleep paralysis, which can feel like the real and dream worlds are mixing. In ancient times, this phenomenon was attributed to supernatural forces, and in some cases spirit possession by yokai.

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tells of Lúthien an Elven Princess & lover of the mortal Beren. Her singing lulls the lustful Morgoth & his court to sleep, enabling Beren in his quest. The tale is all the lovelier as Tolkien based the story on his love for his wife Edith.

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"And we fairies, that do run
By the triple Hecate's team,
From the presence of the sun,
Following darkness like a dream."

- A Midsummer Night's Dream 5:1

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For 3 stormy days in June 1816 & her friends were stuck inside villa on Lake Geneva. They started to create ghost stories. In the small hours of 16th June Mary dreamed of a man-made monster. Upon waking she began to write

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"A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Frances Isabelle Lockwood Brundage (1854-1937, American)

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The Summer court gains power at the Spring equinox. They represent mature life & their focus is on sustaining life, making more pragmatic decisions than the Spring court. They tend to be more arrogant and are capable of cruelty, but are polite & mannered. 7/

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