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Still not very well today but I did manage one new thread. I thought I'd also re-share this old thread that has a small collection of my tweets about birds in for today's Also here are some birds in prints by Utagawa Hiroshige. https://t.co/pwQ2fjZHy1

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- “I have spent most of my life in the woods, among the flowers, listening for hours to the birds. 🐦

I have learned many lessons, and the greatest of them all is to know how much power there is in little things.”

~ Norse God Frey https://t.co/rnf82pXBTN

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In the Princess and the Raven, the raven helps a king who lost his way in the woods in exchange for his daughter.
The king tries to fool the raven with substitutes, but he knows only a princess who will choose to drink out of a golden cup will break his curse.

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The six brothers in 'The Six Swans' rely on their sister, the princess, to save them from a curse & restore them to their human form. She succeeds, but does not have time to fully complete her task & as a result the youngest brother keeps one swan's wing.

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ODETTE Tchaikovsky’s Swan Queen, swims on a lake made from her mother's tears after a sorcerer, Baron von Rothbart, transforms her into swan form. At night she regains her human form. 📷 Anna Pavlova's dying swan dress. She played Odette over 4,000 times

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The plip plop call of the Satanic Nightjar was once attributed to the sound it made plucking out folks' eyes...

🎨Renata Grieco

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“April I open my bill
In May I sing night and day
In June I change my tune
In July far far I fly
In August away I must”

The cuckoo is said to begin calling on 14th April in honour of the martyr St. Tiburtius, brother-in-law of St. Cecilia, who died on that day.

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In Greek myth, the owl was symbolic of Athena, goddess of wisdom, intuition and warfare. Owls are regarded as intelligent with excellent hunting skills, mirroring many aspects of Athena.
🎨Cynthia Sheppard.

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Nafanua was an ali'i chief/queen and toa warrior of Samoa. The title of Toa/Toa Tama'ita'i (Warrior) was bestowed upon her for avenging her family and creating peace via her fighting skills and her four magical weapons which she carved herself from Toa wood.

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Ereshkigal, a Powerful Mesopotamian Queen of the Dead was in charge of keeping the dead in her realm and preventing the living from learning about the afterlife. Her domain was in the Mountains of Sunset to the west, known as Kurnugia,or the Land of No return.

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This week’s Fairy Tale Tuesday explores queens & strong, female protagonists. So here are some of Warwick Goble’s magical women from the Golden Age of Illustration ✨

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Lucy on the White Witch:

‘She calls herself the Queen of Narnia thought she has no right…And she can turn people into stone…And she has made a magic so that it is always winter in Narnia—always winter, but it never gets to Christmas…’
—CS Lewis

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Baba Yaga has power over day and night, speaks w/animals, and knows things. And she could take form of a beautiful maiden, yet chooses not to. In many tales, Baba Yaga is not just a witch; she can be good or evil, or both, and still be powerful.

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"She was too innocent and good for witchcraft to have power over her..."
How Princess Elisa toiled and troubled to free all her brothers from a witch's curse
https://t.co/eAmWsUF8Yr
mid 1960s illustration by Simonne Baudoin

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In their early years, mermaids spend most of their time fascinated by humans, they try do understand them, mimic their ways. Over time they lose interest in their cousins above, let go of who they think they should be, and become who they were meant to be. (ALT)

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In this Norwegian tale, the Lime Tree Queen steps out of a door in a tree, inviting the heroine inside and dressing her in beautiful clothes. 🎨Johann Heinrich Füssli  

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The Lady of the Lake, a title used by a few fairy-like human enchantresses, played an important role in Arthurian She provided Arthur with Excalibur, raised Lancelot after his father died, entrapped Merlin, & helped take the dying Arthur to Avalon. 🪄

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