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Illustrations by Lizbeth Zwerger for SWAN LAKE (2002) based on Tchaikovsky’s ballet: only true love will break the curse that turns Princess Odette & her maidens into swans by day. In the original libretto (1877) they were true swan-maidens not enchanted mortals

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'I realized that we all need a new selkie story, that our myths can guide us but not lock us': in 'A Selkie Story for the New Millenium', Laura Marjorie Miller thinks about finding new interpretations of selkie stories. https://t.co/cng5FnmSIZ

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A watery undine can acquire an immortal soul by marrying a human...

Illustration by Arthur Rackham.

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for "Beauty and the Beast", by Warwick Goble (1862-1943, British)

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In Scottish mythology, selkies are beings capable of changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin. They are found in stories originating from the Northern Isles of Scotland.
( art by Kaebobee on DeviantArt)

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There is no day or night but perpetual twilight in the land of fairies & ghosts of the dead & afterlife intermingle with them. Eating fairy food is taboo for humans, as it alters the body & prevents a person from returning to the world of the living.

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"One tale is that the Selkie or Seal Folk can only assume human form once every seven years because they are either humans who had committed sinful wrong doing, or are fallen angels"
https://t.co/8S2ocQmKNh

🎨 artist unknown

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In the Iberian tale "The Seven Pigeons," a princess refuses to marry a knight, so her father orders her death. But a magician instead turns her into a swan with a golden crown, & employs seven maidens who can shapeshift into pigeons as her caregivers.

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In the Belgian tale "The Swan Maidens & the Silver Knight," seven swans (who are actually seven cursed princesses turned into swans) help a knight rescue an imprisoned princess. The latter helps the cursed princesses regain human form by knitting seven coats.

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THE WILD SWANS Fairy tale by Hans Andersen,1838. An evil queen turns her eleven stepsons into and forces them to fly away (they're allowed to become human again by night). A possible influence on Swan Lake 🎨Anadezhda Illarionova; Anne Gilbert

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ODETTE Tchaikovsky’s Swan Queen, swims on a lake made from her mother's tears after a sorcerer, Baron von Rothbart, transforms her into a swan. At night she regains her human form🎨Anna Pavlova's dying swan dress. She played Odette over 4,000 times

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💜Thank you for all your fab tweets today💜
See you next week for theme
SWAN MAIDENS - SELKIES - YOKAI & OTHER SHAPESHIFTERS in & from around the world!

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🌷#FairyTaleTuesday
Like, Magical Trickster, H.Miyazaki’s film “Spirited Away”(2001)has a witch based of her Legend: :keeping her workers in servitude by stealing their true names: she is not always malevolent, but can be kind to others and even give them Magick

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Cinderella and her fairy godmother, 1920 by Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900-1931, American)

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Tale of the Fisherman and the Genie, scene from the Arabian Nights, illustrated by Edmund Dulac, 1907. Your eye is drawn to the menacing genie with its lanky arms, talon-like hands and dark wings.

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have gifts of prophecy and the ability to grant wishes. In "The Mermaid, The Ring and The Wish", a young fisherman is rejected by his crush and, in shame, runs away to a desert island. There a mermaid helps him find true love.

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Cinderella and the Fairy Godmother
Edmund Dulac
Arthur Rackham
Jessie Willcox Smith
Judy Mastrangelo
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Cinderella and her fairy godmother for by Margaret Tarrant and Margaret Evans Price, both born in 1888.

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A dozen fairy godmothers may bestow good qualities on a princess, but the penalty for forgetting the 13th fairy is death-by-spindle, a curse so powerful even a fairy godmother can only transmute death to 100 years of slumber
🎨John Dickson Batten, E.Burne-Jones

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BLUE FAIRY Kindly saviour of wayward puppet Pinocchio 1883; human-sized, not diminutive, she has a mysterious history, appearing first as a spectre child with blue hair. 🎨Augusta & Cavalieri 1924; Disneyfication, 1940; re-imagined under water in A.I. (2001)

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