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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
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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

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

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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2021-02-24

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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2021-02-24

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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2021-02-24

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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2021-02-24

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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2021-02-24

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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2021-02-24

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

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2021-02-23