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Artist unknown.

Anyone know who created this?

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2020-11-18

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

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2020-11-17

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

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2020-11-18

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

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2020-11-17


The Greek myth & combines elements of Beauty & the Beast, Sleeping Beauty & Snow White .... Psyche falls in love with what she believes to be a monster who hides his face from her. She is later woken from a Stygian slumber by true love's kiss ...

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2020-11-17

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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2020-11-17

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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2020-11-17

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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2020-11-17

One day, Fox-Woman from the Otherworld came to live with the lonely hunter in his hut. She cooked, washed, & loved him dearly but her pelt had a wild & strong scent, & the hunter kept complaining about it, until one day Fox-Woman left, leaving him alone again.

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2020-11-17


with her Fairy Godmother, the pairing of maiden & crone will always ensure a mesmerising mixture of magic & mischief in any Beautifully illustrated by such talented
Edmund Dulac
Arthur Rackham
Jessie Willcox Smith
Judy Mastrangelo

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2020-11-17

"Beauty and the Beast" is a 1946 French romantic fantasy film directed by Jean Cocteau. Starring Josette Day as Belle and Jean Marais as the Beast, it is an adaptation of the 1757 story "Beauty and the Beast", written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont.

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2020-11-17

Fairy on a bat by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (Australia, 1888-1960).

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2020-11-17

In lore Bride, Princess of Summer, is enslaved by the Cailleach, hag goddess of winter. After many months, Bride is given snowdrops by kindly Father Winter. Upon seeing these the hag is enraged, as they mean her reign is coming to an end. Img: CB

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2020-11-17

Cinderella in silhouette, by Arthur Rackham, 1919, for an edition of the story retold by folklorist CS Evans.

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2020-11-17

In the Norwegian fairy tale "East of the Sun & West of the Moon," a peasant girl marries a cursed prince who's been turned into a white bear. To break the curse, the girl travels to a hidden castle, where the prince's stepmother is forcing him to marry a troll.

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2020-11-17

In fairytales, creatures of every kind are as old as literature itself. Animals used in fables & beasts in fairytales are found in ancient Egypt, Greece, India & Aesop. Animals can symbolize the natural world, a deity or sacred entity in various manifestations.

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2020-11-10

- Cornish Smugglers:  The Notorious Cruel Coppinger - https://t.co/LojZ5G2aP2

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2020-11-10

Day 10
Pre-Raphaelite member, Henry Holiday (1839-1927), designed a series of tiles based on the fairy tale, 'The Little Mermaid', written by Hans Christian Andersen. They were produced by Minton Hollins & Co in c.1880.

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2020-11-11