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Aesop's fables: The Bat and the Weasels. Moral of the story, "Set your sails with the wind"

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In Brittany, it was said hedgehogs suckled cows. If a cow ate the grass on which a hedgehog had urinated, misfortune followed. Eating grass touched by a hedgehog ensured a painful calving. Other areas said that women became pregnant after stepping on a hedgehog.

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Aesop (620–564 BCE) was a Greek fabulist who “made use of humble incidents to teach great truths” according to philosopher Apollonius of Tyana. Animals feature prominently in Aesop’s fables. These illustrations: Alice and Martin Provensen, published in 1965.

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Scottish artist has created a serious of animal (beasties) prints with Scots names. What's your favourite? I can't decide between the Corbie or the hoolet. See the whole collection at https://t.co/ggJqHD16DI
https://t.co/3xWbHUx2Dv

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"His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck’s nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan’s egg."

-Hans Christian Anderson

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Selkies or “Seal Folk” are mythological beings capable of changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin, found in Irish & Scottish folk
🎨Tristan Elwell
Francesca Resta
Selina Fenech
James Browne

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A squirrel lives in the world tree Yggdrasil. His name is Ratatoskr.

It runs up and down and exchanges venomwords between the eagle and the dragon Niðhöggr. 🌳🦅🐿🐉

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(1866-1943) transformed animal in children’s literature.

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When harm is about to befall the neighbourhood around Windermere, a ghostly white will be seen walking on the water from shore to shore. Perhaps a sea horse or kelpie from Celtic mythology.

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Animals can turn into fairies & be magical with special powers. Spirits of animals are thought to be able to become fairies & were often believed to be the most primal fairies. In addition to manifesting as animals, fairies used various animals as messengers.

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Artist unknown.

Anyone know who created this?

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It's Joining in with princess that channel in some small way but mostly have a style of their own!

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Life had been summoning servants, having people over for dinner, being invited to balls and fine holidays.
“How am I supposed to fall in love,” she asked her servant,“when every man treats me the same?”

-Fairytales of The Elvish Coin

https://t.co/Rls40bZiM7

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- The Swan Maiden's challenge - Folkrealm Studies https://t.co/rzD05GnUaI

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After being punched in the face by her wolf husband, the Breton Cinderella set off in search of him across the Blue & Red seas to Crystal Mountain; wearing out a pair of iron & a pair of steel shoes, and flying on an eagle's wing before the end of her quest.

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Perhaps the most iconic trope in children's stories has to be that of the innocent vs the beast, the irony as the vulnerable character overcomes the accursed monster. The epitome is Little Red Riding Hood meeting the wolf in the dark forest & its many variants

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Émile Bertrand's 1899 poster for the première of Jules Massenet's opera "Cendrillon" inspired by Charles Perrault’s version of the story which was published in 1697. Note the slipper in the fairy's veil &border of too-small glass slippers

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