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🌹Pandora's Box 2. John William Waterhouse 🌹

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2020-12-02

- Bengal Folktales: The Origin of Rubies - Under the influence! https://t.co/xAHdhOUWhI

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2020-12-01

Vila are Slavic nymphs who dance through the air and revel through the night. They are gifted in magic, and will curse anyone who seeks to harm them; but if you leave them offerings of food and wine, they will heal you or enchant you to be beautiful ⭐💖🌷

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The Diamonds & Toads. Where a magical crone bestows jewels &roses to fall from the mouth of a kind daughter when she speaks. When the favored daughter tries to find the same luck, she is cursed by her own cruelty, to have toads &vipers fall from hers!

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2020-12-01

In "The Emperor's New Clothes" people were under the curse of pride. Two con artists claimed to clothe the Emperor in garments "so rare only superior beings could see them". No one except a young child dared admit the Emperor was actually naked.

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In Greek Lamia is by Hera, wife of her lover Zeus. In chimeric form she is destined to slither under the cover of night, searching for children to devour, or stalking by light of day, unwitting young men to seduce.
🎨JWWaterhouse

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2020-12-01

“Maidens call it ‘love-in-idleness.’ The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid
Will make or man or woman madly dote
Upon the next live creature that it sees.”
Thus Oberon uses Heartsease to enchant Titania in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Act 2 Sc1)

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In the of the SAN people of Namibia a creature called the Nandi or Nandibear features. It’s Werekind and believed to be part hyena. It also features in Ends of the Earth, the second in the Changeling Saga.

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2020-11-25

'Chicken Licken' by
1. Harry Rountree (1878-1950, NZ > GB)
2. Richard Scarry (1919-1994, American)

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2020-11-25

🐇🐰🐈🐀 The Wonderful World of Beatrix Potter🐇🐰🐀🐈 Favorites🐰Happy FairyTaleTuesday🐈🐇🐰🐀

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2020-11-25


Hamelin, Germany, has medieval records stating the loss of 100+ youngsters. Theories as to why vary from work migration, to an outbreak of St Vitus' Dance, where ppl are said to have danced themselves to death

book by Eulalie, pub. Dean 1948

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2020-11-25

In keeping with the theme of animals in you can read "Fairytales of the Elvish Coin" for £2.10 and follow the tales of toads, goblins, fairies and many more weird magical creatures in this collection of fairytales.

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2020-11-25

Today's for this is the classic Grimm tale "The Bremen Town Musicians," in which four animals who are too old to work decide to become musicians and trick their way into taking ownership of a house together.
Illustration by Paul Meyerheim (1889).

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2020-11-25

'Witch In The Pumpkin Patch' by Bob Orsillo.
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2020-11-25

The woman shouted"Yesterday I ate three tigers for breakfast!"Scared,the Tiger ran away.Egged on by Jackal,Tiger returns only if their tails are tied together.The woman laughs,"Thank you,Jackal!You get his bones."Away runs Tiger with Jackal tied behind.(Punjab)

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2020-11-24