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Across a thousand years and lifetimes, long-suffering Midir waited until Etain was reborn, then revealed their past relationship. Realizing her love for the sidhe lord, she earned the ire of a king to spend eternity with the man who had waited as long.

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In the ballad Jack-a-roe, a woman falls in love w/ a sailor named Jack who is soon sent off to war. She then boards a ship dressed as a man saying her name is Jack Monroe, & goes to the battlefield to rescue her lover. She finds & brings him back, & marries him.#FairyTaleTuesday

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In The Little Mermaid by Andersen, the prince falls in love with someone else. When they marry the mermaid will turn into sea foam. Her sisters give her a dagger. If she stabs the newlyweds she will have a long life in the sea. She doesn't.

🎨Anne Anderson

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'The Death of King Arthur' - James Archer, 1860.

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The Little Mermaid, art by Sandra Marrs (that's me).
Tragically ever after

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Springtime, by Pierre-Auguste Cot. A huge success upon being exhibited in Paris in 1873, the painting is now on display .

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In the 7th-century Arabic tale "Layla & Majnun," the poet Qays falls so madly in love with the lovely Layla that their tribe dubs him Majnun ("possessed" or "mad"). Layla's father forbids them to marry, so Qays flees & wanders the desert the rest of his days.

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'Ruslan and Ludmila' written by A.Pushkin and illustrated in 1964 by Palekh painters B.Parilov and V. Dudorov. The story is of the abduction of Ludmila, the daughter of a prince, by an evil wizard and the attempt by the brave knight Ruslan to find and rescue her.#FairyTaleTuesday

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I love the Enchanted Rose in the Disney retelling- ✨
The wilting of the rose symbolizes Beauty leaving the Beast, making us wonder if their love is going to last or not.

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Out of this wood do not desire to go.
Thou shalt remain here whether thou wilt or no.
I am a spirit of no common rate.
The summer still doth tend upon my state.
And I do love thee. Therefore go with me. Titania Adoring the Ass-headed Bottom, Fuseli

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We're sharing our blog post A Prince Who is a Beast for Read about Beauty and the Beast and other versions of this tale.
https://t.co/z7ZxKgX1ds

Pictured: Illustration by Frederick Richardson for East O' the Sun, West O' the Moon.

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Lilith was Adam’s first wife, created as an equal out of the same clay. Medieval texts have it that she refused to lie under Adam, & left the garden of Eden, refusing to return, to become the ultimate she-demon, capable of unspeakable evil.
Img: Rossetti

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This week's for is "Khastakhumar and Bibinagar," an Afghani folk tale in which Babinagar must journey far and wide to recover her black snake husband after his snakeskin is burned by her jealous stepsisters.
Illustration by Hilda Roberts (1919)

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& is one of the oldest recorded versions of Beauty & the Beast: Psyche falls in love with an apparent monster who hides his face from her. After many hardships, Psyche is eventually woken from a Stygian slumber by Eros' kiss ...

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In Irish myth the King of Tír na nÓg is told his son-in-law will usurp him so he gives his daughter a pig's head to deter suitors. To regain her form, the princess must wed a son of Finn MacCumhail; Oisín agrees to marry, she regains her form, Oisín is made King

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🥀Beauty and the Beast
Eleanor Vere Boyle (1875)
Jennie Harbour (1921)🍃

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