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Fairies of the written & illustrated by Cicely Mary Barker. Wherever & whenever a seed sprouts a flower fairy is born. Each one lives & sleeps in their plant, flower or tree, looking after it, keeping it strong & healthy. 🍂🧚‍♀️

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2020-09-22

In the orchards of England it is lore that each to ensure a good future crop, the last apple should be left on the tree for the Apple Tree Man. He is the spirit who lives in the oldest tree & bestows fertility on the orchard. Img: CB

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2020-09-22

The term "jack-o'-lantern" may be derived from the Irish legends of Stingy Jack, a conniving drunk who cheats death time & again. When he eventually dies, neither Heaven nor Hell can take him, so he wanders between worlds, using a hollow turnip as a lantern.

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2020-09-22

to Arthur Rackham, born this day in (1867-1939).
“For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.”

Self Portrait
Tree Fairies
Pandora
The Valiant Little Tailor

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2020-09-19

Sprays or crosses of birch put over a stable door bar faeries from entering at night & keep them from borrowing horses. Faeries were also said to be able to come into the house when everyone was asleep & turn a person into a horse so they could ride them.

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2020-09-16

This Annie Stegg Gerard is exactly how I imagine all stags to be like... though I believe this particular one is from Narnia, and one of the dryads has claimed him...

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2020-09-16

The horse of Death in Christian Revelation is translatable as pale green, ashen, pale, and white, and Hell follows with him. This final Horseman of the Apocalypse opens the fifth of the seventh seals in perhaps the most famous apocalypse.

Art by V.M. Vanetsov

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2020-09-15

Näcken, a Swedish waterspirit, likes to disguise himself as a white horse with a white man called Bäckahästen. It likes to lure children into the depths. For every child who climbs on the horse, the back gets longer and longer!

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2020-09-15

Enbarr of the Flowing Mane was the horse of Manannan mac Lir, King of Tír na nÓg. Able to run on water and mist and faster than the wind, Manannan lent the horse to his foster-son, Lugh, who used him to travel Ireland.

Art by AtmaFlame

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2020-09-15

6. Crommyonian Sow
The is a in who eats people. Sometimes it is owned by an old woman called and sometimes Phaia transforms into the pig.
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5. Sleipnir
In was grey and thanks to his eight legs had the ability to traverse the nine worlds of the in
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2020-09-15

The White Stag is considered the messenger of the ‘Other world’. Its appearance aims to lead the person who witnesses it on a path of self-discovery and new beginning in order to acquire a new awareness, knowing, and healing.

🎨Stephanie Law

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2020-09-15

✨Aonbharr; Enbarr: means ‘Froth’; White horse of Lugh takes shapes-traversing between land &sea,‘swifter than wind-speed.‘ In ‘Oidheadh (Fate): of Chlainne-Tuireann‘,the Dannan are oppressed; Lugh: "Fairy Cavalcade from Lands of Promise"-(Sidh ó Thir), arrives;

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2020-09-15

In the old Irish tale 'The Labour Pains of the Ulaid & The Twins of Macha', Macha daugther of Sainrith son of Imbat hreveals herself as a human manifestation of the Horse Goddess.

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2020-09-15

One of my favorite mythical creatures is the legendary satyr, the lustful, drunken woodland god. And he definitely has hooves.
Enjoy these whimsical depictions by a god of the art world, Arthur Rackham. He did NOT have hooves.

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2020-09-15

'Pepper Dupree & Her Spellwork Tea' by Polly Fae/Paulina Cassidy.

No truer words ...

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2020-09-15

In Greek mythology Pan is a bucolic fertility god. He is depicted as a man with the horns, legs, hooves & tail of a goat, a beard, snub nose & pointy ears. He is a vigorous, lustful creature concerned for his flocks & herds.
🎨Annibale Carracci
Arthur Rackham

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2020-09-15

✨🏰🌹#FairyTaleTuesday
“I want to remain a Mystery to myself &others”
Later in life, King Ludwig identified more &more with Von Eschenbach’s✨Grail character Parzifal; dedicating his Castle Neuschwanstein-to its Legends Believing, he could create, a Holy Kingdom, by God’s Grace’

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2020-09-08