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Beauty & the Beast, modern day interpretation by LiigiaKlavina,

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2021-02-02

In 'The Singing, Springing Lark' a father orders the servants to catch a lark for his daughter. When one is caught a lion appears and accuses them of theft. They must pay with their lives or bring back the first thing that they meet - the father's daughter.

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2021-02-02

There's a nice little story for from China here. Also available in audio on our audiobook app!

https://t.co/Xwcp1QNPY6

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2021-01-27

I've always been fascinated by the Fairy Godmother characters. Here I drew one of my interpretations of Cinderella and her Fairy Godmother. Inspired by moths, moths in folklore are often viewed as symbols of mystery and transformation. Art by

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2021-01-27

John Scott of Easting in the Orkneys was a fiddler who spent a year underground pleasing the with his music. Told he'd never again lack for money, he had but put his hand in his pocket when he wanted it & it appeared. Until he told someone his secret...#FairyTaleTuesday

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2021-01-27

William Blake's enchanting painting of fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Tate Britain) by William Shakespeare.

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2021-01-27

Tolkien's Dwarves, the standard for all fantasy since, are based largely on Norse myth, drawing particularly from Volsunga saga and its continental cousins, but also on the plight of the Jews: a noble people, looking to return home.

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Undine is a water spirit from the eponymous novella by F. de la Motte Fouqué. When her human husband sends her away for another woman, she returns to her natural element but kills the knight with a tear-laden kiss. Illustration: Arthur Rackham - Undine"(1909)

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Brownies painting the leaves, by J C Gilbert

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2021-01-26

A lutin is a type of French fairy or hobgoblin, and their tales can be found throughout Quebec. Their spirits can take the form of pets, especially white cats. Both good and evil, they can control the weather, shave your beard, and fill your shoe with pebbles.

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In Scottish mythology, Selkie are seals that can become human by shedding there skin.

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are in early pre-Islamic Arabian and later Islamic and They could grant but they were also able to manipulate these wishes and turn them into
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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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2021-01-26

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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2021-01-26

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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2021-01-26

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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