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In Ferdowsi's one of the adventures of the Persian mythological hero Rustam is his defeat of a dragon with the help of his faithful horse, Rakhsh.

Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Folio Society, 2009.* Watercolour, 280 × 200 mm.
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GRIFFIN🦁🦅
..of Greek Mythology, one theory, is that it was based on the Protocetatops, a pig sized dinosaur, half lion, half eagle, that guarded the gold of kings..a powerful, and majestic beast..#fairytaleflash

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PEGASUS🐎
..the divine winged horse, offspring of Medusa and Poseidon, born from Medusa's blood, after she was beheaded by Perseus, a free spirit, the universal symbol of liberty..#fairytaleflash

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The Victorian artist, John Anster Fitzgerald, liked to imagine magical ideas —like what a fairy feast might look like? Here’s his ‘The Fairies’ Banquet’ of 1859

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This week’s Fairy Tale Tuesday explores feasting: 🫖🍰

It was all very well to say “Drink me,” but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. “No, I’ll look first,” she said, “and see whether it’s marked ‘poison’ or not.
—Lewis Carroll

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Hi 👋🏻

I am Maria, an illustrator who loves to work on whimsical and meaningful stories!✨🦋 ✨ 🦋

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Concept art by Mary Blair (1911-1978) for Disney's Cinderella (1950) film, which was in development from 1922, hence all the versions of this magical transformation scene

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Cinderella’s fairy godmother turns a pumpkin into a carriage again & again & again…

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"She took off her sash, and tied one end round the butterfly; the other end she fastened to the leaf, so that now it glided along with her faster than ever."

Illustration by J.M. Szancer from Thumbelina

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In Hans Christian Andersen's The Princess and the Pea, a prince is looking for a bride and a rain-soaked girl shows up claiming to be a princess. To test her, the prince's mother places a single pea beneath 20 mattresses and 20 eiderdown beds.

🎨 Edmund Dulac.

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"Come buy from us with a golden curl”
by Hilda Hechle, an illustration for Christina
Rossetti’s 'Goblin Market'.

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NEVER EAT FAIRY FOOD It is transformed by their use of GLAMOUR & is actually made up of weeds or rotten fruit. Fairies themselves prefer stalks of heather & the milk of red deer (according to folklore). 🎨Fairy Banquets: Rackham & Fitzgerald

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Charybdis is Scylla’s partner; either a sea monster that makes a whirlpool or just plain a living whirlpool, Charybdis sucks all nearby boats down her abyssal gullet. She will eventually choke on all the salt in the water, which is the perfect time to get past.

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Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market' tells the story of the encounter between Laura & Lizzie and goblin merchants. When Laura exchanges a lock of her hair for the taste of the goblins' 'fruit forbidden', she deteriorates https://t.co/HeSTxcb51O
🎨 Arthur Rackham

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In Irish fairy-lore, if you dropped food, it meant the fairies wanted it. For best luck, pick it up, have a nibble, then throw the rest to them...

🎨E. Stuart Hardy

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Having accepted the offer of a potent drink from a mysterious stranger, Rip Van Winkle falls into a deep slumber and, on waking, finds that twenty years have passed and the world is no longer what it once was ...


🎨 Arthur Rackham

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“Meet Alice”
©️Bridget & John Original2023

The Wonderland Series.

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is the Year of the Water in the Chinese zodiac 60-yr cycle that embodies the passive principle of the universe of relaxation & quietness expected to bring hope, peace, prosperity & longevity.

🎨 Claire Mcelfatrick


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