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John Anster Christian Fitzgerald was a Victorian era fairy painter and portrait artist. Many of his fairy paintings contain images of ghouls, demons, and references to drug use; his work has been compared to the nightmare-scapes of Bosch and Pieter Brueghel.

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While D&D fans show their age by recognizing them as either dog- or lizard-like baddies, Kobolds are less low-level adventurer bait and more a linguistic variant. The word Kobold is just a German variant on the word Goblin.

🖼: T. DiTerlizzi

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The Blackthorn rules the dark half of the year from Samhain until May Day. It is dark moon magic, an “increaser of secrets.” Its thorns are the pins of a poppet, its wands used for cursing.
A tree protected by faeries, its berries are the sloe. Img: CMB

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The volatile relationship between and their feathered friends (clockwise)--
Teasing the birds: Richard Doyle (1824-1883) &
A. Duncan Carse (1875–1938);
Saddled up: Jean Baptiste Monge (b.1971)
A tiff: Arthur Rackham (1867–1939)

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In Irish lore, Airmed is a fairy-goddess of herbal lore, healing & witchcraft. After her father killed her brother Miach out of jealousy, Airmed mourned him so deeply that all the plants of the world began to grow on his grave & share their mysteries with her.

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Goblin Market is a long narrative poem by & tells the of sisters, Laura & Lizzie, & the river Illustrated here by A for children or an expression of Rosetti’s feminism & homosexuality? You decide.

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"Titania's Elves robbing the Squirrel's Nest"
Robert Huskisson 1854.

It was said of the artist that "he slipped out of the world, no one knew when or how"

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Fairies receive great representation in the legendary art of Arthur Rackham.
“Puck and a Fairy”
“Fairy Party”
“Another Part of the Woods”
“Ariel and the Fairies”

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Elementals are regarded not so much as spirits but as beings between creatures & spirits, generally being invisible to mankind but having physical & commonly humanoid bodies, as well as eating, sleeping, & wearing clothes like humans.

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In the original tale of Aladdin, he captures two djinn: one contained in an oil lamp & one contained in a ring. The former makes Aladdin rich & powerful, while the latter frees him from a cave & later helps him find his kidnapped bride.

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Gorgeous illustrations of Thumbelina and her toad fiance by Janusz Stanny from 1955 and Thumbelina's escape on a swallow by Paulina Garwatowska from 1988

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'Thumbelina' by Hans Christian Andersen illustrated by Janusz Grabianski in 1963. The bold watercolour strokes tell the tale of the tiny girl who avoids marriage with a toad and a mole by escaping on a swallow and finds love with a flower-fairy prince her size

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🌿🦄🌿For I'm giving a mention to the magical stepping stones that get me through the week...






And for a daily dose of re-enchantment💚

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The Queen of Sheba is also called Bilquis, and paid homage to Solomon. The two became inseparable, though she proved a bad influence: polytheism returned to Israel. God brought both to heel and she returned home, some say with an heir.

🖼: K. Carroll

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2021-01-20

This is my idea of an in charge... and simultaneously the result of being friends with bats...


by Johann de Venecia

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2021-01-20

Queen Boudica, aka Boadicea, was a warrior queen of the British Celtic Iceni tribe who revolted against the Roman Empire's colonial forces in circa AD 60. She was a tall, handsome woman with long wavy intense auburn hair cascading below her waist. (1/2)

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