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In The Dancing Water, Singing Apple, and Speaking Bird, three royal children, born with moons and stars on their heads, are raised by a deer in the forest. In order to save her brothers, the princess confronts a mystical bird who has turned them to stone.

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Donkey Cabbages When a huntsman gives an old beggar lady his coins, she gratefully tells him how and where to find two magical items that'll bring him great fortune. He does as she bid, and so his adventures begin.. https://t.co/emJjV7HBOn

🎨 Gustaf Tenggren

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2020-07-07

In Bengali tales, birds byangomi (fem.)/ byangoma (masc.) are seers, born blind. If, as chicks, a blood offering is made willingly - one drop in each eye - they may bond enough to become familiar-like. . . but don’t count on it.

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"The Nightingale" by HC Andersen
An emperor prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. When he is near death, it is the nightingale's song that restores his health showing things of value are not always gold.
🎨Dulac

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All I feel like doing right now is sleeping. Sometimes things just get too much and sleeping for a hundred years sounds quite appealing 💤

🖼: Sleeping Beauty by Edward Burne-Jones

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Some beautiful birds in art for
1: 'Shrike and Bluebird with Begonia & Wild Strawberry' - Hokusai, 1834.
2: 'White Herons & Willow' - Shoson Ohara, 1926.
3: 'Blue Bird on a Branch' - Seiko, Ca. 1900.
4: 'Crows in Moonlight' - Shoson Ohara, 1927.

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In 1888, Oscar Wilde's beautiful The Nightingale and the Rose was first published. Inspired by Persian myth and Hans Andersen, this poignant tale has an underlying motif of how artists' self-sacrifice can remain unnoticed...

🎨Charles Robinson

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2020-07-07

In Slavic folktales Sirin & Alkonost are 2 birds of paradise. Half bird, half woman they come down to earth to sing their hypnotic sweet song to man. The sirin symbolises joy & light, the alkonost, sorrow and darkness.
🎨Alivis, Incantata DeviantArt

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2020-07-07

Fairies and Fatal Women

Henry Fuseli, Queen Katherine’s Dream exhibited 1781

The subject is taken from folklore and literature. A sleeping shepherd is assailed by fairies, while his dog takes watch.

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2020-07-01

"Oh, now, just a minute. You must understand, my dear: On the stroke of twelve, the spell will be broken, and everything will be as it was before."

--Fairy Godmother, Cinderella
(Illustration by IrenHorrors)

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2020-06-30

It is not Cinderella without the stepmother, the fairy Godmother, the mystic dress, or the prince! Cinderella illustrations by Natasha Ringor.

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Rhodopis while bathing an eagle snatched one of her sandals; it flung it into the king's -Memphis- lap; by the strangeness of the occurrence & beauty of the sandal, he sent men in quest of to find who wore it. The king found her in Naucratis & became his wife.

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“Sleeping Beauty”
Ballet Costume Designs (1921) by Leon Bakst (1866-1924), Russian painter, scene & costume designer for the Ballets Russes.

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An old West-African interpretation of Cinderella, the story of "Chinye” by Obi Onyefulu, published in 1994.
Chinye is a young girl, sent by her mean stepmother into a dangerous forest at night to get some water. On the way back ...
(1/3) (art by Evie Safarewicz)

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2020-06-30

In the Greek fairy tale "The Sleeping Prince," a princess must watch a cursed prince sleep for three months, three weeks, three days, three hours, & three half-hours without sleeping. Then, when the prince sneezes, she must bless him to lift the curse.

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2020-06-30

In Arthurian legends, Morgan Le Fey is both a and a able to shape-shift, cast spells, fly with wings and perform healing.

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2020-06-24

The witch illustrations of Margaret Tarrant

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2020-06-23

Spearfinger, or U'tlun'ta, is a figure from Cherokee folklore. Made of stone, she can shape-shift into anyone to trick her victim. She has a finger as sharp as a knife that she uses to cut her victims to eat their livers.
(art by Chris Williams)

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2020-06-23

"Ask the sailor who has crossed the ocean;
he knows this ship, the dread of the godly:
I am called the Flying Dutchman"

Seen East of the Good Hope, with red sails flying, a portent of doom for those whose bows she crosses, the mother of all ghost ships.

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