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In Mme d'Aulnoy's fairytale, Prince Adolph of Russia ends up on the island of Eole, god of winds.
A playful Zephir aids him in reaching the Island of Happiness, where they both meet in secret with their beloved.
🖼️William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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In Philppine lore, after a storm Maria Makiling walks the forest repairing broken branches, bird nests, and healing broken wings of butterflies. Wherever she walks the sun shines, birds sing, flowers bloom, animals play. https://t.co/3Y8vDLSSIa

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WIND 🌬️ Do you ever wonder what those faceless phantoms are trying to tell you when they knock your window? Voices, rising... But you can't catch the wind (The Wind song) My own music and art 🎵🎨 https://t.co/VSQEk74mgF

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For , an Irish fairy tale in which the heroine, Margaret, elopes with a prince, saves him and his entire crew from a sea monster, and fights a giant: https://t.co/udK6DYafBp

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"'Is the spring coming?' he said. 'What is it like?'...
'It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...'"
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
🎨 Springtime by Pierre Auguste Cot

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"Under that benign sky I watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth."
-Wuthering Heights

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Beautiful movie: set in 19th century Italy with an operatic score. bower will remind you of Victorian paintings. https://t.co/j4UKcRaPUD

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An old-school fairy I created back in 1989 and my style was developing as a young artist.

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by Winefred V. Barker, from "The Emerald Fairy Book", pub. Hutchinson 1920s

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We can't help but adore Jareth, the goblin king from Labyrinth. Though, if I could turn into an owl and fly around, I'd probably find cooler things to do than taunting a whiney teen and stealing a baby. https://t.co/6Qk9lltr6t

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In the land of fairy tale, helpers are often small. With the Brothers Grimm collecting tales, in 1812 they gave us Snow White & her friends, the tiny dwarves. Whether inspired by Ovid, Basile, or the true story of a German C16th countess, their tale endures🍎🖤#FairyTaleTuesday

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Her angel's face,
As the great eye of heaven, shined bright,
And made sunshine in the shady place;
Did never mortal eye behold such heavenly grace.

—Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene (1590)

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Herr Birre och Trollen (Troll Trouble)

by John Bauer

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A little treat with the Dundee Dragon! Art by ! 🐉🧝🏼‍♀️⚔️🐺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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In Vietnamese creation myth, Âu Cơ was a kind-hearted snow fairy who lived in a snow-capped mountain. She married Lạc Long Quân, the "Dragon Lord of Lạc", and bore 100 children, who later became the ancestors of Vietnamese people. 1/3

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Female trolls, also known as a trollop, are just as foul and cannibalistic as males, but look a LOT different. They resemble beautiful human women with the only trollish parts of them being horns and a cow tail, which they will hide to take humans by surprise.

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- In Iceland the Little People known as the Huldofolk live in cute small houses built by locals. It is believed these tiny beings have magical powers and protect the island.
In Celtic beliefs dwarfs give advice or shelter to heroes. https://t.co/rq6KHIe4tO

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A Bexhill Gnome. "A Pied Fancy" written & drawn by our own Nina Kennard Brisley (1898-1978), from the Number of the Bexhill Observer 16.12.1911 for It would seem our gnomes are not very nice.

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If taken ill, you may be 'elf-struck', shot with an elven arrow. In Cumbrian folklore, the elves got the arrows from faeries, who got them from mermaids.


art: Oyasumi

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Originally an American product, it's thought that Fairy soap got it's name because it floated in the bath, which obviously implied that it had 'magical properties'.

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