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John William Waterhouse born in 1849, the painting depicts the Italian a group of young people who fled to the countryside to escape the plague in Florence in 1348, amuse themselves by Some things never change!

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Aesop's Movie Fables Book (Sonnet Publishing, 1931).

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Loved reading these classics when I was a wee lad.
Incredible illustrations for 1912 edition of "Aesop's Fables" by legendary Arthur Rackham.

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"A thing of beauty is a joy forever" (Keats)

latecomer J.W. Waterhouse was baptised 1849 in Rome

Naiad (1893)
Echo & Narcissus (1903)
The Sorceress (1911)
A Tale from the Decameron (1916)

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Pana-Vue slides of “Mother Goose Village” inside Rock City Gardens - Lookout Mountain, GA, home of many Mother Goose rhyme characters like Jack and Jill, cat and the fiddle, little Bo Peep, Peter Pumpkin.

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The nursery rhyme "One for Sorrow" was originally about magpies, but there are many variations about crows, jackdaws, & other birds. According to superstition, the number of birds you see determines what kind of luck you'll have.

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The Aesop fable "The Fox & the Grapes" is about a fox who struggles to reach grapes growing in a high place. He gives up, saying the grapes are probably sour anyway. This tale has been interpreted as an illustration of cognitive dissonance.

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Final. I sent a preview yesterday. This is Brandish (Greek letter mu) from Fairy Tail. Hope you enjoy! There's a lot I could say about her as a character, but this is Twitter and I'm limited, so....

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The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen is a tale about eleven princes who are turned into swans. Their sister, Lisa must save them by spinning nettles into thread to make eleven coats. She must not speak a word until she is done or her brothers will die.

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"We are just like the green sea-weed, which, once cut down, can never revive again! Men, on the other hand, have a soul which lives for ever, lives after the body has become dust; it rises through the clear air, up to the shining stars!"
-The Little Mermaid

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Such a great critical response to our films & Their fresh take on folk must be on to something!

Please and to help us reach others who are yet to see the films.

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Hans Christain Anderson-
"... her skin was as clear and delicate as a rose-leaf, and her eyes as blue as the deepest sea; but, like all the others, she had no feet, and her body ended in a fish's tail."

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Over 500 versions of Cinderella have been found just in Europe alone! But, it's the French version by Charles Perrault that's the most popular, due to his fairy-godmother, pumpkin and glass slipper additions. J'adore this illustration by Arthur Rackham!

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It's so it's time to show off our monthly fairy tale before the month ends! You can pick up this pin and its tarot card together on Patreon, or also either of the Milky Way collection pins for this month! :D

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Our this is "Hare and the Hedgehog" from Grimm's Household Tales, in which the hare insults the hedgehog's legs, they agree to race, and the hedgehog's wife helps him win "a golden louis-d'or and a bottle of brandy."
Illustration: Gustav Süs (1855)

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HC Andersen grew up in dire poverty, wishing for the beautiful, shiny things of the gentry in his Danish town. So his fairy tales explore self-worth, beauty, & ideas of nobility tested. Edmund Dulac grasped all this & so his art glistens. 💫

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These pictures of the little match girl are by Natalia Demidova -

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Daughter of the queen of the sea falls in love with a land-dwelling human, and the world falls into chaos. Based on Hans Christian Anderson's classic The Little Mermaid, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea is a Japanese retelling with a very different ending.

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