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The Big Bad Wolf is a common adversary across many fairytales & cultures.

Art by manuhell at DeviantArt

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2020-08-12

While humans frittered away millennia on senseless magic, filling the skies with flying cities and building stairways to swampy Venus, the centaurs knew the truth--that dominion over the universe would fall to those who built machines.

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Helle was a daughter of the cloud nymph Nephele.Her stepmother Ino tricked Athamas into giving the children Helle and Phrixos as a sacrifice to the gods,Nephele sent the flying,golden-fleeced ram to the rescue.Helle grew weary and fell off the beast into the sea

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- Tales with Children -
and the 3 Bears is a classic fairytale where she...
Oh, wait...that took a dark turn. 😳

(Wonderful art by Omar Rayyan 😂)

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Peter Pan is famous as a magic child who could never grow older. Terri Windling's essay describes the origins of Peter Pan in J.M. Barrie's family life, Scottish legends and fairy tales. https://t.co/2kIHsh3mka

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Illustrations by Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825–1916) for ”Thumbelina”, HC Andersen’s fairytale about a tiny girl who emerges from a barleycorn flower, is abducted by a toad, pressured to marry a mole, escapes on a swallow & finds happiness with the flower fairies

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is the tale of a mischievous boy on the cusp of adolescence. A free spirit, able to fly but fated never to grow up. Leader of the his story tells of adventures with fairies, mermaids, pirates & Native Americans.
🎨Trina Schart Hyman

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This week features children in fairy tales from around the world. In The Peter Pan Picture Book (1907), J.M. Barrie’s classic story features charming illustrations by the gifted artist Alice B. Woodward, starring The Lost Boys, Tinkerbell, Wendy, and Peter Pan.

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The Influence of Struwwelpeter, a collection of cruel and frightening stories written and illustrated by Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann in 1844.
Source: https://t.co/ph03IlWXDd

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Glaistig were beautiful fairies with the legs of a deer or goat that would lure men to dance with them so that they could drink their blood. Their lower half would often be disguised by green robes or a flowing green dress.

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2020-08-05

Here is my illustration inspired by the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales: Snow White & Rose Red 🌹🐻

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2020-08-05

Janusz Stanny illustrated Hans Christian Andersen's work in such an epic fashion that it makes come alive.

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"They call me the ruler of the desert; I am the Robber Orbasan."

Half French, revolution refugee, Boney's adversary in Egypt, rogue, rescuer, traveller & teller of tales - the Byronic central figure of Wilhelm Hauff's Kunstmärchen, the Robber Orbasan

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2020-08-04

- Celtic Mythology: Mixing Animals, Birds, Humans and Gods - https://t.co/fSpKQR4oQY

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2020-08-04

2. In the hunter came across the bathing naked in the Knowing he had seen her naked, Diana turned Actaeon into a stag and had his own 50 greyhounds rip him apart. 3/4

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1. In watched as the 50 danced by the He took a liking to who ran from him to the far ends of the earth. The Delphin tracked her down and persuaded her to marry Poseidon and become queen of the sea. 2/4

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Chickcharnies live in pine forests on the island of Andros, If you meet one and are polite they will help you, but if you are rude they will twist your head off. They are suggested to be based on giant extinct barn owls

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