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In Cornwall if you are near a portal to fairyland you will smell an intense floral scent...

🎨Füssli

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2022-06-02

Look through a hag stone, a rock hollowed by running water, for a glimpse of fairyland...

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2022-06-02

Tirtiris are little people from Filipino lore that have gold teeth. Art is by Brian Froud. I just colored the teeth gold.

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2022-06-02

Irish Otherworlds are often islands west of Ireland, portrayed as mist-covered islands filled with fabulous beauty and majestic landscapes, silver towers and mythical beasts loyal to their lords, like Manannan mac Lir, the Son of the Sea.

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2022-06-02

"A thynge of wytchencreft—an idle dreme”:
The epigraph for The Flying Islands of Night (1913) by James Whitcomb Riley, illustrated by Franklin Booth in which ‘The other world’ appears in the form of a flying island.

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"But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it? It lives on in Fantastica, deep under earth. There are forgotten dreams stored in many layers. The deeper one digs, the closer they are. All Fantastica rests on a foundation of forgotten dreams."

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2022-06-01

In Norse Mythology Hel is an underworld realm and is presided over by Hel herself who receives a portion of the dead. 

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2022-06-01

"So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve."-The Farthest Shore, Ursula K. LeGuin

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2022-05-26

"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."

The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins


🖼️Yoshioka

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2022-05-25

“She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.”
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

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2022-05-25

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” — J.M. Barrie from the wynderful, Peter Pan

🖼️ Shana Keegan (I: ArtbyShana)

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2022-05-25


“She tried to avoid the gaze of a particularly cross-eyed stoat.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

Art by Paul Kidby of the 'Wyrd Sisters'

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2022-05-25

As credited in the text, this chilling line is borrowed from Gottfried August Bürger's 'Lenore', in which a lady mounts a horse with someone who resembles her missing lover, only for him to reveal himself as Death 1/3 https://t.co/cPp510wFUk

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2022-05-25


“Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

'The Black Cat' Art by Iren Horrors at Deviant Art https://t.co/G3m9M2hEmy

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2022-05-25

Imaginary places & fictional cartographies that I love: the Wild Wood from The Wind in the Willows, magical Narnia, & the wondrous Land of Oz ❤️ (🎨 Shepard, Baynes, Wogglebug)

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2022-05-19


If you're traveling with us on
You might need a map 🗺️

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2022-05-19

'The Essex Serpent: real & heroines inspired by the county' -
https://t.co/R3keMQUizB

& 'From Loch Ness to Essex, why are humans so keen to 'invent' sea monsters'🐲 -
https://t.co/EohaouYp9m

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2022-05-19

In ancient times people saw the world in a very different way. A strange map collection depicts countries and continents as odd representations of figures or animals. More: https://t.co/2lMlFGBfKL

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2022-05-19

In a Greek Myrsina (Myrtle), gets directions from a 🌳

"A beech tree told her, 'Don't cry, dear lass, only let that breadring you are holding roll, and wherever it stops there shall you bide, without a fear in the world.' " 🍞


🗨️G. A. Megas
⬇️ Myrtle

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2022-05-18

My bum as landscape - a poetry book cover for

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2022-05-18