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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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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Children in for
w/JACK AND THE BEANSTALK in
🎨Walter Crane
🎨Elizabeth Colborne

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by 'Primrose' in "The Story of Little Red Riding Hood", Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., early 1940s

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HANSEL & GRETEL in
for children in theme
w/some delicious gingerbread houses!
(How could any kid ever resist? I always knew I wouldn't have been able to...)
🎨Curt Liebich,1925
🎨Karl Feiertag

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Early 1900s Rotkäppchen by Arpad Schmidhammer (1857–1921, German)

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“One day the grandmother presented the little girl with a red velvet riding hood; and as it fitted her very well, she would never wear anything else; and so she was called Little Red Riding Hood.”

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