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Out of the fire flew a beautiful bird, who, singing deliciously,
rose up high in the air.

The Juniper Tree
1899
Warwick Goble

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FAIRY TRANSPORT In the fantastical world of French author and illustrator Jean-Baptiste Monge, cast an enchantment over woodland animals and birds; bird-riding fae are shown delighting in their mode of transport

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In Baltic Ragana is a who rarely walks anywhere, but instead transforms herself into a crow and flies. She is the ruler of night, winter, birth, death, fertility and menopause, which begins with the touch of her red wand.

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Largest of the birds of prey of the Middle East, the mythical Roc was a terror, able to carry off elephants and whole ships for its hatchlings to eat. The Thousand and One Nights has not one but two tales, and the origins of the Roc vary from India to Africa.

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From March to September, sparrows observe the lives of people. When a touch of fall begins to arrive, sparrows fly to Gangnam, where the goddess lives. The birds then tell what they have seen to her, who will reward or punish the mortals for their deeds. (2/2)

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My favorite version of the Firebird is the Slavic Where a magical feather summons a Firebird! One that casts a sleeping spell & tells our hero how to destroy the villian. By throwing the egg (where the soul resides); breaking it, & the curse!

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Wild Swans.
📸 me; illust. by Susan Jeffers, The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen.

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The children of Lir is an Irish legend about a king's four children who are turned into swans for nine hundred years by their jealous step mother.


Art by P J Lynch

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8. The is a in It is a human sized black and white bird, said to summon and with its & & is said to have an insatiable for
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6. In the was a that would visit the homes of the The Caladrius was able to take the into itself and then fly away, dispersing the sickness and both itself and the sick person.
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John Anster Fitzgerald often paired birds and fairies in his paintings. He would frame some of his pictures in a fragile mesh of gilded twigs so that they resembled a nest...

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Stravinsky’s “Firebird” was written for the ballet. The firebird holds a sacred place in Russian folklore. A symbol of doom to hope, the Firebird’s rise from its ashes has inspired many. It inspires me & is playing whenever I write.
🖼️ Ballets past & present

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The Morrigan and her sisters are most commonly associated with crows and ravens, carrion feeders who flock to fields of battle like the three war goddesses. Commonly she/they can transform into crows, as displayed in the tales of Cuchulainn.

🖼: J. Juta

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"As I was walkin' all alane
I heard twa corbies makin' mane
The 'tain unto the tither say, o
"Where shall we gang and dine the day, o
Where shall we gang and dine the day?"

"Twa Corbies" (two ravens) tells a grim tale of said birds feasting on a slain knight

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In the Tsimshian cycle Raven the Trickster sees that the world is covered in darkness. He then returns to the heaven & as a cedar leaf is swallowed by the chief’s daughter. Born as her son he steals the daylight, wears his raven skin & flies in the world w/ it.

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One by one, brave knights in armour rode out to fight the Dragon. But their lances were too old and too blunt to pierce its iron scales, and they choked on its poisonous smoke.

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My research pinboard while writing Day 3. The Cheshire Prophet Robert Nixon. Said to be a stupid ploughboy yet if he existed, foretold death of Charles I, Great Plague & 'Three years of great wars,' one still to come...
https://t.co/tncPrEqk2U

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Some magical birds by Arthur Rackham for you all today (circa 1906-15). Somehow, with his fairy-tale eye, he made these feathered friends seem enchanted, unique, & wise all at the same time. ☺️🪶💕

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