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The and The Rose by Oscar Wilde is a of love, loss, sacrifice, selfishness and selflessness. First published in 1888 in the The Happy Prince and Other
Beautifully illustrated here by P J Lynch.

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Kalaviṅka or in Japanese Karyōbinga is a fantastical immortal creature in Buddhism, with a human head and a bird's torso. It is said to sing while still unhatched within its eggshell. Its voice is a descriptor of the Buddha's voice. Image by Katsushika Hokusai.

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In Finnish mythology, Siberian Jay could hold human souls. The souls that passed on into a Siberian jay were hunters, witches, people who had gotten lost and died in the forest. Sometimes even forest sprites would move into a jay.

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"Ivan Tsarevich and the Grey Wolf" is a Russian fairytale collected in the 19th century by Alexander Afanasyev and illustrated in 1969 by Nika Goltz. Ivan has to capture a firebird which is both a blessing and a harbinger of doom to its captor.

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In the MABINOGION Celtic wizard Gwydion creates a woman out of flowers, Blodeuedd, who becomes a flower-faced owl Blodeuwedd. When Alan Garner found plates the design of which could be seen as either owls or flowers The Owl Service 1960 was born

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And down the river's dim expanse
Like some bold seer in a trance,
Seeing all his own mischance
With glassy countenance
Did she look to Camelot.

From part IV of Tennyson's poem.
The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse, one of my favourite paintings!

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“Use your wits, use your eyes. Perhaps you use your physical eyes too much and only see the mask. Find your eyes within, look for the door in the unknown country.”

Pamela "Pixie" Colman Smith, born 1878, "The Blue Cat" (1907) for

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‘It is obvious!’ sneered Doom the Magician. ‘People in other lands have hidden away. But we will let the Dragon eat its fill, and then it will leave.’ The ministers, who were all afraid of Doom, nodded their heads. ‘Brilliant!’ said the King.

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The faerie women tested the nobility of the knights by offering them impossible tasks fraught with strange creatures lurking in the shadows of a vast forest inhabited by dangerous foes of incredible kinds. (2/2)

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3.3 She began a new affair with of She stole from as he slept and created a forgery for him and gave the real one to She then placed the two of them in a realm hoping Accolon would kill Arthur...
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2.2 the cousin of The two had an affair but were caught by the Guiomar left and was left embarrassed before the court and began to plot her She exposed in her affair with before...
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APPLE In English lore is associated with enchantment. King Arthur on being wounded was spirited away by 3 queens to the magical place of AVALON, or Appleland, ruled by bewitching Morgan Le Fay; some say the apple's core is a pentacle

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"Nimuë loved Lancelot as her own son. She educated him very well and made sure that he grew to be strong and healthy. She treated him lovingly, showering him with gifts, love & music."

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For King Arthur's voyage to the Otherworld in his ship Prydwen - https://t.co/IPWzJCZie3

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Illustrations from ARTHUR OF AVALON by Pavel Tatarnikov, b. 1971 in Belarus, whose favourite projects combine his love of myths and legends, literature and
history.

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'The Damsel of the Holy Grail' - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874

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William Stott (British 1857–1900); 'Tristram's Farewell to Iseult'

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In Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory Nimue has a very good reason to entrap Merlin. Merlin falls in love with her and will not leave her alone. The only way to get rid of his advances is by trapping him under a rock.

🎨Arthur Rackham & Burne-Jones

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Merlin foretold a child born on May Day would be Arthur's fall, so every child born that day was rounded up and put on a ship, sinking off the coast. A furious Lot declared war on Arthur, having lost a son: but the son survived, and was not his. 'Twas Mordred.

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