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Some more for Please enjoy these rather bizarre Victorian soap adverts featuring totally normal content:

Sapolio soap, Cosmopolitan magazine (1899)
Pears soap (1889)
Lux Soap, 'Illustrated London News' (1906)

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'Balance of the Zodiac', Luis Ricardo Falero (19th c.)
'Moon Nymph', , Luis Ricardo Falero (1883)

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The Turn of the Screw, a novella by Henry James, tells of a governess trying to protect her young charges from the malevolent & manipulative of their previous governess & her boyfriend. It inspired several versions including The Innocents.

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HARPIES (Greek Myth)
by Virgil: Bird-bodied, girl-faced things they are; abominable their droppings, their hands are talons, their faces haggard with hunger insatiable.
By Aeschylus: they snore with repulsive breaths, they drip from their eyes hateful drops.

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The Tale of Princess Kaguya is based on the Japanese folktale The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. In it a bamboo cutter comes across a mysterious, shining stalk of bamboo &, after cutting it open, finds an infant the size of his thumb inside.

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Here are just a few of our creations inspired by the rich traditions of various Asian and folklore! https://t.co/pTeuziySmg

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Momotarō (桃太郎) is the Peach Boy, found inside a giant peach and raised by childless parents. So pure was his heart and strong his hands that as a child, with a band of friends consisting of animals, he conquered the local Oni lord and brought back their hoard

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Alice at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party - by Marjorie Torrey (1899-1964, American)

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In Korean when a fox lives to be one thousand years old, it becomes a gumiho. This spirit appears as a beautiful woman with 9 tails and fox ears. But beware! The gumiho will seduce a man, then eat his heart & liver.

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Anelia Pavlova

I love this woman's work.

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The Bamboo Cutter's Daughter (Taketori Monogatari) tells the tale of Kaguya Hime after she is found as a baby in a bamboo stalk. She sets out impossible tasks for her persistent suitors and becomes penpals with the Emperor until she has to return to the moon.

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An Ōmukade is a gaint centipede yokai. They are said to eat dragons and humans. They live in mountains.

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These are only three of many brilliant artworks by Warwick Goble who is mainly known for illustrating Indian and Japanese fairy tales.💙

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"Amaterasu created the universe as she saw fit. Every star, land, and sea belonged to her. She created the world and within it her land of the rising sun. The people there were to worship her and obey..." - Kissing Stars Over the Rising Sun

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'There was once a young who was terribly lonely. She lived in a cottage by the sea, and did her best to make friends with the gulls and the tide pools and the wind. But it was not the same...'

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by Sarah Burns

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In the tale 'The Crane Wife', at night a woman turns into a crane, her original form, & weaves cloth using her own feathers so that her husband can sell them on the condition that he doesn't look at her. One night he peeks into her weaving room & she flies away.

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