"I used to meet her in the garden, the ravine, and in the manor fields. She was always picking flowers and herbs, those she knew her father could use for healing drinks and potions."

- Hans Christian Andersen's,
The Wind's Tale
🎨 Illustrated by Edmund Dulac

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“Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.” 💀 💀

― Hans Christian Andersen

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just realized that mebarunrun gave andersen a piercing on the gay ear. thank u /j

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"The witch hung her caldron over the flames, to brew the draught. Then she pricked herself in the chest and let her black blood splash into the caldron. Steam swirled up, in ghastly shapes."
~HC Andersen, The Little Mermaid

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She never noticed that I showered apple blossoms
over her loosened hair; she only gazed at the red sunset
against the golden background of the sky, and the dark trees
and bushes of the garden.

The Wind’s Tale
Hans Christian Andersen

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"Our time is the time of the fairy tale": Hans Christian Andersen between Traditional Craft and Literary Modernism
Johan de Mylius's insightful article asks whether and to what extent Hans Christian Andersen was a children's author
https://t.co/oEkuS9mCGv

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It is believed that Andersen's "Snow Queen" was written after his rejected proposal. However, others believe the Snow Queen was inspired by the death of Andersen's father where he told his young son that an ice maiden was there to fetch him.
🖼️Boris Diodorov

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"I can't see anything. This is terrible! Am I a fool? Am I unfit to be the Emperor? What a thing to happen to me of all people!"
- The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen (translation by Jean Hersholt)

Image: owlcation

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Hans Christian Andersen's "The Tinderbox" is about a tinderbox that summons three large dogs with gigantic eyes to fulfill a soldier's every whim. Though initially criticized for its lack of morals, the tale eventually became Denmark's first animated movie.

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Have you ever read The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen?




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Hans Christian Andersen’s "The Little Mermaid" was inspired by the novella Undine (1811), in which a water spirit marries a knight to gain an immortal soul. She gets pulled back into a river by relatives, then returns to kill her husband for marrying another.

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The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen is a tale about eleven princes who have been turned into swans. Their brave sister, Lisa saves them by spinning nettles into thread to make eleven coats. She cannot speak a word until she's done or her brothers will die.

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Walt Disney’s version of “The Little Mermaid” with artwork done by Kay Nielsen as part of the Hans Christian Andersen biopic that Disney & MGM planned to produce in 1941, combining animation & live action.

It would be a lot more faithful to the fairy tale than the 1989 film! https://t.co/K36w4elLVg

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In 1811, Germanic writer Friedrich Fouqué published 'Undine'; a fairytale novella in which Undine, a water spirit, marries a knight in order to gain a soul. Hans Christian Andersen was influenced by the portrayal of souls in Undine while writing The Little Mermaid (1837).

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Terje Andersen(タリエ・アンネシェン)です 11歳の生意気クソ坊ちゃんです
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thoughts about hans christian andersen?

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do u crave more Big Andy content now that fgo summer camp is out? do you want a fic exploring andersen AND dantes' struggles with how the world perceives them as stories first and people second??? come and read my fic, it's set right after the summer camp event! :^)

excerpts: https://t.co/qqacNPS5Cs

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Grandes de la ilustración de libros para chicos: Wolf Erlbruch (Alemania). Ganador del Premio Andersen en 2006. Imagen tomada de "Zwei, die sich lieben" (2012).

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the two types of andersen tweets u'll get from me

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