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Yet Melusine's mother encourages her to reject her fairy heritage and instead choose humanity. She is determined not to be reduced merely as a beautiful object. But she can only turn into half a snake because of her human passion

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2021-04-09

butterfly winged depictions of fairies links fairies as spirits of the dead as the butterfly is often considered the mythical shape by the soul following death

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2021-04-09

Next we have our plenary by Dr Sam George on 'Fairy Lepidoptera: The Dark History of Butterfly-Winged Fae'

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2021-04-09

- on the dangers of eating fairy fruit in Lud-in-the-mist. The magical fruit is stored in coffins - emerald green raspberries, tawny grapes and crimson grapes...

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Next up the incomparable on 'Fairy Carnival: Music, Dance, and food in the re-enchantment if modernity from Hope Mirlees's Lud-in-the-mist to paranormal romance'

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2021-04-09

Getting ready for day two of conference by Yesterday was fabulous and today looks even better.

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2021-04-09

Here’s the video for this guy. Plus a couple close ups in thread. Don’t mess with this dude.
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2021-04-09

Next in Eco Faery 1 we have Dr Kaja Franck on 'No weapon forged by mortal or get can harm the Iron King': imagining the environmental apocalypse in Julia Kagawa's Iron Fey series'


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2021-04-08

NYMPHOLEPSY: A word for fairy abduction taken from Classical culture. (Image: Arthur Rackham, 1933, for Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market')

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"Anatomy of Mélusine" by French illustrator Camille Renversade, inspired by late 19th-century Deyrolle school boards

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2021-04-08

Preparing my paper on 's "A Ride Through Faerie" for You can read the poem here: https://t.co/NK3tXtCdGq

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2021-04-03

Vivien Leigh as Titania in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", 1937 https://t.co/xCStGPf6yc

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2021-04-03

FAIRY COURTESAN Fuseli's Gothic vision of is full of menace. Titania & Bottom in his asses' head, mingle with a hooded midnight hag clutching a changeling and a fairy courtesan with her victim, an old man on a chain

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2021-03-31

FAIRY KEYNOTE I'll be presenting on 'Fairy Lepidoptera: The dark history of butterfly-winged Fae' Conference 8-11 April How did fairies get their butterfly wings & how did they come to be associated with the dead? https://t.co/bqQr1JxA2I

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2021-03-27

"Dragonfly wings buzzed from it's shoulders, colours constantly changing like oil on water. It's tiny face flashed him a warm, friendly toothpaste smile, welcoming eyes, feline amber under the small curling horns at it's brow.
“Hello my Duncan”

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2021-03-23

FAIRY RINGS Upon entering an elf ring or sorcerer’s circle of mushrooms you will become invisible & be made to dance around until you die of exhaustion. Fairy rings can uncannily appear in graveyards🎨W. H. Sullivan; graveyard ring

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2021-03-23

Bright Eyes, Life & Death Cross, and DOTD Raven🌹 Which design is your favourite?🖤

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