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In the Belgian tale "The Swan Maidens & the Silver Knight," seven swans (who are actually seven cursed princesses turned into swans) help a knight rescue an imprisoned princess. The latter helps the cursed princesses regain human form by knitting seven coats.

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THE WILD SWANS Fairy tale by Hans Andersen,1838. An evil queen turns her eleven stepsons into and forces them to fly away (they're allowed to become human again by night). A possible influence on Swan Lake 🎨Anadezhda Illarionova; Anne Gilbert

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2020-08-24

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

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💜Thank you for all your fab tweets today💜
See you next week for theme
SWAN MAIDENS - SELKIES - YOKAI & OTHER SHAPESHIFTERS in & from around the world!

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2020-08-19

🌷#FairyTaleTuesday
Like, Magical Trickster, H.Miyazaki’s film “Spirited Away”(2001)has a witch based of her Legend: :keeping her workers in servitude by stealing their true names: she is not always malevolent, but can be kind to others and even give them Magick

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Cinderella and her fairy godmother, 1920 by Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900-1931, American)

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Tale of the Fisherman and the Genie, scene from the Arabian Nights, illustrated by Edmund Dulac, 1907. Your eye is drawn to the menacing genie with its lanky arms, talon-like hands and dark wings.

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have gifts of prophecy and the ability to grant wishes. In "The Mermaid, The Ring and The Wish", a young fisherman is rejected by his crush and, in shame, runs away to a desert island. There a mermaid helps him find true love.

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Cinderella and the Fairy Godmother
Edmund Dulac
Arthur Rackham
Jessie Willcox Smith
Judy Mastrangelo
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Cinderella and her fairy godmother for by Margaret Tarrant and Margaret Evans Price, both born in 1888.

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A dozen fairy godmothers may bestow good qualities on a princess, but the penalty for forgetting the 13th fairy is death-by-spindle, a curse so powerful even a fairy godmother can only transmute death to 100 years of slumber
🎨John Dickson Batten, E.Burne-Jones

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BLUE FAIRY Kindly saviour of wayward puppet Pinocchio 1883; human-sized, not diminutive, she has a mysterious history, appearing first as a spectre child with blue hair. 🎨Augusta & Cavalieri 1924; Disneyfication, 1940; re-imagined under water in A.I. (2001)

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Mephistopheles originally appeared in the story of Faust, a scholar who sold his soul to the demon for knowledge.The name Mephistopheles is frequently used as an alternative form of Satan or the Devil and it evolved during the Renaissance https://t.co/zMIpoE8JEi

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2020-08-18

This by an unknown artist has drawn this staircase incredibly. The only thing with which I take issue is the sheer bulk of Aurora's hair, as I believe the laws of physics would indicate she should not be standing...

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Edward Gorey Illustrates "Little Red Riding Hood" and Other Classic Children's Stories https://t.co/4dQ9QQ6wb2 via

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2020-08-11

Children in for
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🎨Walter Crane
🎨Elizabeth Colborne

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