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Delightful article on Caribbean with lots of tales I've never heard of. Mermaids, dinosaur-demons, witches & sorcerers, lost cities...

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2020-06-09


Queen of the Meadow

“Kingfisher-courtiers,
swift-flashing, beautiful,
Dragon-flies, minnows,
are mine one and all;
Little frog-servants who
wait round me, dutiful,
Hop on my errands and come when I call”

and verse by Cicely Mary Barker

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2020-06-09

In Protestant England, fairies were believed to be in league with the Devil and the way to protect yourself from their attacks was to dip your thumb in milk and make the sign of the cross.

Image: Johann Heinrich Füssli

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2020-06-09

At the end of Hans Christian Anderson's "The Little Mermaid," the mermaid dies. Because merfolk don't have immortal souls & can't enter heaven, she joins the daughters of the air, benevolent spirits who do good deeds for 300 years to earn immortal souls.

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2020-06-09

Cu Sith- This specimen comes from Celtic They let out 3 barks. Which can be heard from as far as the sea. Those who hear its barks must return to safety before the third bark. Or be overcome with terror to the point of death.

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2020-06-03

Illustrations from THE NENUPHAR BOOK by author/ illustrator Sveta Dorosheva (b. Ukraine) “a book about people and human world, as seen through the eyes of fairy-tale creatures.” Her earliest inspirations were Russian fairytales, then myth and medieval art.

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2020-06-02

I love Russian fairy tales. My favourite is 'The Frog Princess' in which a princess is being held captive in the form of a frog by the immortal Koschei. Her only way out is a prince who has to find a magic needle which will set her free.

🎨Viktor Vasnetsov

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2020-06-02

✨The Russian Story Book (1916)
~illustrations by Frank C Papé

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2020-06-02

Today's strong fairytale heroine is the exuberant Tatterhood - born brandishing a wooden spoon, riding a goat and yelling 'Mamma!' https://t.co/JSVjkB2wa2 (Art by Yoshi Yoshitani.)

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2020-06-02

"Viy" is a novella by Nikolai Gogol. The title is the name of the entity central to the plot.Gogol insisted that Viy, the King of the Gnomes, was a character from Ukrainian folklore, but no discovery has been made of any East Slavic folktale resembling the story

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2020-06-02

Once there was a little girl who lived in a forest of perpetual sunlight, with an old man who walked with a cane, his wise friend, a raven haired lady alchemist, a green tarot card reader & her two cherubic, nutmeg brown foxes.

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2020-05-26

The oldest telling of Puss N Boots is by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in his “The Facetious Nights of Straparola” c.1550-1553. Illustrations by:
Warwick Goble, 1923
Walter Crane, 1875
Edmund Dulac, 1928
Arthur Rackham, 1910

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2020-05-27

'The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids'
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"What rumbles and tumbles,
Inside of me.
I thought it was kids,
But it's stones that they be"


by Robert Lumley, in "The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids", Ladybird 1969

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2020-05-26

Fey beings in the mystic art of Michael Parkes.

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2020-05-27


"Gerda cried, and almost hugged the crow to death as she kissed him
"Gently, gently!" said the crow "I think that it may have been little Kay that I saw, but if it was, then he's forgotten you for the Princess"

Andersen's "The Snow Queen"

🎨 by Errol Le Cain

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2020-05-26

In Aesop’s Fables, Fox makes soup for Stork. He ladles it onto a plate and laps it up. Stork is forced to watch as she can’t lap. Stork makes soup for Fox, she pours it into a tall glass and slurps it. Fox hates the joke being on him.
Image Pam Storey

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2020-05-26

Puss in Boots, Master Cat or Booted cat is my own cat's favourite fairy tale.😼

This trickster has roots in Indian and Italian fairy tales before Perrault wrote it down. The cat even appears in Tchaikovsky's ballet called The Sleeping Beauty.

🎨Offterdinger

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2020-05-26

lefty, the fencing mouse, I have been drawing and painting mice and i cant stop thinking of the borrowers!

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2020-05-20

The wolf as Granny, by Janusz Grabianski, from "Grimms' Fairy Tales", pub. Jonathan Cape 1962.

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2020-05-19