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"Adventurous Lads" in for
w/ illustrations of ALADDIN from "1001 Arabian Nights"
🎨"Aladdin finds the wonderful lamp inside the cave" by Rene Bull, 1898
🎨An 1886 theatre poster advertising a production of the pantomime Aladdin

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This by Sieskja of a knight makes my heart skip a beat...
It is called Two Autumns based on this poem:
For me going
for you staying
two autumns.
Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902)

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5.
Willingly protects his idiot brother, Paris. Loyal to Brave Warrior.
Not heroic: stubborn and hunts for glory so makes a mistake/ He kills Doesn't listen to who begs him not to fight and die.
6/6

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1.
Saves his Kingdom from his evil Uncle. Gets
Not heroic: Cheats on and acts like its fine and ruins her mind and life.
2/6

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The Fool of the World sails the skies with a man of ravenous appetite and a man with unquenchable thirst. When the Tsar challenges them to finish twelve oxen & forty casks of wine, they're happy to oblige!

🎨Uri Shulevitz (purchase: https://t.co/HucYIlIAix)

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📚 -Boys in Fairytales- 👱
When I was a kid, my favorite scene in Peter Pan was when Wendy sewed Peter's errant shadow back onto his foot! 🧵
I was just fascinated by this idea!

(🎨Art by Heather Theurer)

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In Japanese fairy-tales, heroic Momotarō was born from a peach. He made friends with a talking dog, monkey and bird and together they roamed the land, fighting demons...

🎨Santō Kyōden

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In the original tale of Aladdin, he captures two djinn: one contained in an oil lamp & one contained in a ring. The former makes Aladdin rich & powerful, while the latter frees him from a cave & helps him find his kidnapped bride.

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Irish Fairy Tales (1920) is a retelling of ten Irish stories by the Irish author James Stephens, with beautiful artwork by Arthur Rackham.

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The blue men of the Minch, also known as storm kelpies are mythological creatures inhabiting the stretch of water between northern Outer Hebrides & mainland Scotland. They wait in the depths for sailors to drown & stricken boats to sink.

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2020-09-02

Slavic are steeped in dark wild legends, and sorcery. To the Slavs they were more than entertainment; they were a way of life, providing a bond of the community’s values, beliefs and traditions.

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2020-09-01

Favorite fairy tale from Poland: The Glass Mountain. Boy kills lynx, uses its claws to scale a glass mountain. Then tricks giant eagle into flying him to apple tree that heals his wounds. He slays the eagle and the blood restores life to the dead princes below.

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East of the Sun, West of the Moon is my first and all-time favorite fairytale. It was the first one that caught my imagination. I remember listening to the cassette with a huge poster on the floor - me kneeling or lying on top of it and enjoying it!!!

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In The Golden Key, Lena the shepherdess meets the lonesome knight in the ”pleasure garden” of the fairies. The jealous, wicked queen mutilates poor Lena but eventually gets turned into a cloud by 3 wyrd sisters and Lena gets healed. John Bauer illustrates.

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One of my favourite folktales is 'The Mermaid of Zennor'. It's a Cornish tale which tells about a mermaid who falls in love with Mathey Trewella, the best singer of the parish. The couple disappears and are never seen on land again.

🎨John Reinhard Weguelin

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A favourite fairytale for me was “The White Snake” due to the boon of understanding & communicating with all animals. Further, animals help the servant-hero complete impossible trials to win the love of a princess & then live happily with her to a ripe old age

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🌝#FairyTaleTuesday
Wednesday, is a FullMoon in the zodiac sign of Pisces:
“The Buried Moon”-is a ‘striking unusual tale,’-with few variants, often appearing more mythological than is common for fairy tales. The story: ’may be evidence of moon worship’:
🧚🏽‍♂️ 🧚🏽‍♀️ 🧚🏽‍♂️

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is in fact a re-boot of the romance .... which also reappears in the Wife of Bath's Tale in .... the moral of the tale being that what women want most is

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