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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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2020-07-07

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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2020-06-30

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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2020-06-30

"The Ash-Tree Girl", (Marie de France) is a variant of A noblewoman abandons her infant daughter (1 sister of twins) as she fears she'll be accused of infidelity, due to the belief that twins were born from different fathers. https://t.co/lU2Iwx3PGv

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2020-06-30

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

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2020-07-01

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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2020-06-23

It's and today's theme is one of my favorites - witches, ghosts, and the supernatural 🕸️🕷️✨🖤

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2020-06-23

Baba Yaga is the fearsome witch of the Slavic Folklore who lives in a hut with scaly chicken legs & rides in a mortar wielding a pestle. She can either help or hinder those who encounter her & is considered a Triple Goddess representing Life, Death, & Justice.

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2020-06-23

In Japanese folklore & fairytales, yurei or ghosts are often the spirits of women seeking revenge after losing, or being betrayed by, those closest to them. They become trapped in the spirit world as haunting ghosts.

Art: 'Cat Witch of Okazaki', Utagawa Kunisada

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2020-06-23

🌹🌹🌹Timeless Stories to Last and Enchant for a Lifetime 🌹🌹🌹Snow White🌹Sleeping Beauty,🌹Beauty and the Beast🌹Cinderella 🌟🌟🌟🌟

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2020-06-17

The Sea King tricks Agneta to go with him to his kingdom below the sea where she lives with him for eight years. One day she hears church bells above the water and begs to go back home and she never returns to him

John Bauer

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2020-06-16