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This week’s Fairy Tale Tuesday explores queens & strong, female protagonists. So here are some of Warwick Goble’s magical women from the Golden Age of Illustration ✨

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Lucy on the White Witch:

‘She calls herself the Queen of Narnia thought she has no right…And she can turn people into stone…And she has made a magic so that it is always winter in Narnia—always winter, but it never gets to Christmas…’
—CS Lewis

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A picture of the three little pigs. Three little pigs, but if you look closely, you can see that the nose is artificial. . .
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Baba Yaga has power over day and night, speaks w/animals, and knows things. And she could take form of a beautiful maiden, yet chooses not to. In many tales, Baba Yaga is not just a witch; she can be good or evil, or both, and still be powerful.

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"She was too innocent and good for witchcraft to have power over her..."
How Princess Elisa toiled and troubled to free all her brothers from a witch's curse
https://t.co/eAmWsUF8Yr
mid 1960s illustration by Simonne Baudoin

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In their early years, mermaids spend most of their time fascinated by humans, they try do understand them, mimic their ways. Over time they lose interest in their cousins above, let go of who they think they should be, and become who they were meant to be. (ALT)

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In this Norwegian tale, the Lime Tree Queen steps out of a door in a tree, inviting the heroine inside and dressing her in beautiful clothes. 🎨Johann Heinrich Füssli  

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When he went up the winding stair, and loudly opened the door of the little room where she lay, she pressed shut her eyes, with the comfort of the hidden dagger under her pillow.
She would rule alone and the 100th suitor would not change that.

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The Lady of the Lake, a title used by a few fairy-like human enchantresses, played an important role in Arthurian She provided Arthur with Excalibur, raised Lancelot after his father died, entrapped Merlin, & helped take the dying Arthur to Avalon. 🪄

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'The Morrigan: Celtic Goddess of Magick and Might,' by Courtney Weber

The Morrigan ('phantom queen' or 'great queen') is famous for being a goddess of war, witchcraft, death, protection and retribution.

🎨 Magdalena Kaczan

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In Irish myth The Morrigan is a goddess of war and death. Spurned in love by Cúchulainn, she hinders him in battle. Some legends say she was gifted with foresight, and, thus able to predict the death of warriors which she used to influence the outcome of war.

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When the baby daughter of the Moon Giant and the Giantess of the Great River was born it was decreed among the giants that she should be the Princess of all the Springs and should rule over all the rivers and lakes.Her smile was like moonlight on still waters.

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Eight Mules from Monterey
by Patricia Beatty

Fayette longs for an exciting summer. And she gets it—on the back of a mule. A library in a saloon? In a general store? In a post office? Sounds crazy, but not to thirteen-year-old Fayette Ashmore’s mother!

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An Irish youth discovers that his mute sister is a selkie who must find her voice and free supernatural creatures from the spell of a Celtic goddess



Song of the Sea, 2014
Dir. Tomm Moore

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Woke up from an unexpected nap to amazing news!!
My offer was accepted on this Beauty from the collection “Between Fairytale And Fear” created by the Very Talented
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My 2nd piece from her works, and definitely not my last!
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Gordafarid is a woman warrior in the Persian epic poem The Shahnameh, described as "a lion eager for battle." She delays enemy troops marching on Persia by riding out to meet them, roaring, "Where are your heroes, your warriors, your tried & tested chieftains?"

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In the Chinese tale "Li Chi Slays the Serpent," a serpent terrorizes a village into feeding him a maiden once a year in exchange for their safety. A girl volunteers to be the sacrifice, then pulls out a sword & slays the serpent with help from her hunting dog.

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