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is a fairy collected by In medieval griffins mate 4 life, if one partner dies, then the other will live the rest of its life alone. They’ve a special significance 4 me but that’s another story.
🎨C Tiuri M Sokolowska

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2021-03-09


UNICORN🇯🇵
From Japanese lore, we find two types of unicorns, Sin-You and Kirin. Kirin is a kind creature, and Sin-You has the power to detect those who lie, if it found someone guilty, would kill them by impaling it's horn to the person's heart..

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2021-03-09

'Martin the Dragon' written by Austrian writer Helmut Zenger in 1977 and illustrated by Vitalii Samoilov in 1980. I love how the fantastical creatures invade Austrian everyday life!

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2021-03-09

"Mirror, mirror, on the wall
Who is the fairest of them all?"
The wicked Queen from the "Snow White" tale, by Alice Helena Watson (1896 – 1984, British)

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2021-03-03

Happy Spring to all!
That particular day she'd been out collecting poppy seeds. She usually got into all kinds of trouble getting them, she knew it was worth it, as she believed they had magical powers.

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2021-03-03

The Queen of Olympus is often portrayed as a villain, lashing out at Zeus' often non-consensual hookups and their children. Yet Hera is also dutiful, goddess of mothers and good wives: does one outweigh the other? A lack of agency breed desperation.

🖼: M. Faye

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2021-03-03

If I ever join a home-school pod...

by Olga Cornacchia

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2021-03-03

In Fables spin off, Cinderella: Fables Are Forever, Dorothy developed a taste for killing for hire after she, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, killed the Wicked Witch of the West in exchange for a trip home. Innocent farm girl became a professional killer.

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2021-03-03

Mirror mirror on the wall,
Who is the most Evil Queen of them all?
Depictions of Snow White's nemesis by (c/w):
Jennie Harbour (1893-1959)
Wilhelmina Cornelia Drupsteen (1880–1966)
PJ Lynch (born 1962)

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2021-03-03

Silver tongued and fire of hair, Loki is the great villain of Norse myth. Odin's blood brother, he causes and then solves most problems; but he cannot solve Balder's death, which he caused. For this he was imprisoned; for this he seeks revenge.

🖼: A. Rackham

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2021-03-02

Ticklish? You better beware of the Mahaha! This Inuit demon/trickster has a permanent grin on his face, probably due to the fact that he kills humans by tickling them to death. You can tell by the twisted smile on the victim’s face.


Image from Pinterest

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2021-03-02

In did bad things. However, she was raised by a man who had no morals, her mind was manipulated by the gods and was ultimately shattered when Jason betrayed her after she left her home and won a kingdom for him
https://t.co/Yl5jS6Flt0
6/9

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2021-03-02

THE JUNIPER TREE
Most shocking of all fairy tales:
"My mother, she slew me,
My father, he ate me
My sister, Little Marlene,
Gathered up my bones,
Tied them up in silk,
And put them under the Juniper tree"
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm (1812)
🎨PhantomSeptember; Dezsö

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2021-03-02

I didn't realize it was until just now 😑

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2021-02-24

The Roc is a monstrous bird that can lift elephants into the sky & feeds them to its young. It makes several appearances in the 1,001 Arabian Nights. 
 
Art by Edward Julius Detmold
Plate from "The Arabian Nights", 'The Roc which fed its young on elephants.'

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2021-02-24

Not strictly one for but as it was about birds I thought I might add my drawing "The Dream Thief" back from when I was first experimenting with drawing. Maybe someone wants to write me a story to go with her

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2021-02-24