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"Dragonfly wings buzzed from it's shoulders, colours constantly changing like oil on water. It's tiny face flashed him a warm, friendly toothpaste smile, welcoming eyes, feline amber under the small curling horns at it's brow.
“Hello my Duncan”

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2021-03-23

FAIRY RINGS Upon entering an elf ring or sorcerer’s circle of mushrooms you will become invisible & be made to dance around until you die of exhaustion. Fairy rings can uncannily appear in graveyards🎨W. H. Sullivan; graveyard ring

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2021-03-23

Bright Eyes, Life & Death Cross, and DOTD Raven🌹 Which design is your favourite?🖤

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2021-03-23

"I have,' said Blake, 'but not before last night. I was walking alone in my garden, there was great stillness among the branches and flowers and more than common sweetness in the air..." (Life of Blake)

Maxmilián Pirner saw a fairy funeral, too.

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2021-03-17

“Do they die? Blake saw a fairy’s funeral; but in Ireland we say they are immortal."

—W.B. Yeats

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2021-03-17

A menacing shape emerges in the nocturnal landscape – a snarling, howling wolf within the trees, with blood-red eyes and gleaming teeth. 🐺 FOREST WOLF COLLECTION through the link below 🌕https://t.co/bcETMOSDTb

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2021-03-12

DEARG-DUE Irish Vampiric Fairy or 'Red Blood Sucker'; thought to be influential on Le Fanu's female vampire 'Carmilla' 1871 🎨Images: Michael Thomas; Arthur Wardle

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2021-03-10

FAIRIES BEHAVING BADLY Armed fae are seen warring with bats for their 'leathern wings', killing caterpillars as 'canker' & spearing a 'red hipped humble bee' in A Midsummer Night's Dream ills Arthur Rackham 1908. Hey fairies leave those bats & bees alone!

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2021-03-02

GOTHIC FAIRIES Fuseli's Gothic vision of A Midsummer Nights Dream is full of menace. Titania & Bottom mingle with a hooded midnight hag clutching a changeling, a Fairy Courtesan with her victim, an old man, held on a chain & a fairy child with a proboscis

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2021-03-02

A Midsummer Night's Dream by Gustave Doré c1870

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2021-02-25

Booking is open for Online Conference 8-11th April. Featuring over 70 papers & 8 keynotes including Chair of Folklore Soc. Prof Owen Davies. Full Programme & links to registration here RT https://t.co/C6jsdmgu4q

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2021-02-25

Sundays are for , right? Hmm maybe not, but is! Here's another from 2012 or so. This one is a I made several years ago when I was still into . I still paint I just don't paint them in Photoshop anymore.

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2021-02-22

are busy finalising the programme for our Gothic Fairies conference in April. Fairies encircle a tomb at night in E.T. Parris, 1832. The white floating figure of a fairy ballerina in productions of 'Giselle' & 'Ondine' is here transposed

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2021-02-19

GAME OVER💀🔥🐉
Three of our most popular designs🤘 What's your favourite Spiral design?

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2021-02-19

NOCTURNAL FAE Moonlight Fairies use an OWL CHARIOT for transport & the crescent moon, inspired by William Allingham (1824 - 1889); OWL-RIDING Night-time Fae occur in Amelia Jane Murray (1800-1896)

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2021-02-18

Czech artist Maxmilián Pirner was born 1853. Much of his work focused on themes from classical mythology, and he apparently had quite an interest in all things strange and macabre.

The Fairy Funeral
Hekate
The End of All Things (detail)
Death

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2021-02-13