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Magic carpets are mythical means of transport and in Europe mainly associated with oriental fairy tales, especially the stories from the Arabian Nights. In the imagination it is usually an Oriental or Persian carpet.

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As you wind through the streets
At the fabled bazaars
With the cardamom-cluttered stalls
You can smell every spice
While you haggle the price
Of the silks and the satin shawls

Arabian Nights

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- Persian Folktales: The Son of Malik ut Tujjar and the Grateful Dead - https://t.co/EFF7NtJRp9

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In this thirtieth post on strong fairy tale heroines, the cross-dressing heroine of a Russian fairy tale triumphs over an over-curious king, finally comparing him to a raven - and herself to a falcon! https://t.co/eaioNjkbE8

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Jinn are supernatural creatures in pre-Islamic Arabian & later Islamic mythology & theology. They are mentioned frequently in magical works & summoned & bound to a sorcerer. Jinn can be evil or benevolent.

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Merlin and Nimue, re-imagined as Reverend Davies and Annamarie Nightshade from Hopeless, Maine

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Practice based on a request I received on FA a while back for Metaletemon.
It was good practice, trying to shade something that's metallic & also foreshortening the arms & hands~

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2020-09-27

ArtTrade with Undertaletaco (on TH)! I drew their character Karen 8).

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2020-09-25

The myth of Persephone, (goddess of the underworld) features her consumption of pomegranate seeds, requiring her to spend the same number of months in the underworld as seeds that she ate.

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The tale of St Martin, a Roman soldier who gave his cloak away to a beggar on a cold Autumn evening. Seeing this, God made the sun shine so brightly it felt like Summer. It's celebrated in Portugal with chestnuts roasted in a bonfire and lots of wine.

🎨 Longa

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Conkers always seemed magical and foraging for them was an adventure (trespassing through some woods and being warned that 'The Jellyman' gamekeeper would shoot us with a stun gun) A magical childhood game. Art by Cicely Mary Barker. y

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In mythology the King is at his strongest at the Summer Solstice ...... his power then wanes & he is defeated by the King GreenMan at the who holds sway until the Spring equinox when the roles are reversed again.

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2020-09-23

Dożynki, the Slavic harvest festival, was originally celebrated on the Autumn Equinox. Traditions include parades, feasts, wheat wreaths, and dancing. A wreath made from the last of the year's wheat was believed to have magical powers.

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🍂Celebrating w/#FairyTaleTuesday🍂
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🎨Autumn, Arthur Hacker, 1907
🎨Autumn Angel, Ida Outhwaite, 1916

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In Persephone was the daughter of the When Persephone was kidnapped by Demeter allowed nothing to grow for six months until Persephone was finally returned This was how was created
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2020-09-22

In Irish tradition an daoine sidhe, the fairies, live in the hills. They were pushed there by waves of invaders who took Ireland until the coming of the Gaels. These sidhe dwell under the hills and are part of the living landscape of Ireland.

🖼: J. Duncan

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Lugh Lamfada fostered with Manannan mac Lir, Lord of Tir na nOg. An daoine sidhe, a Gaelic name for the fairies, reside there when they do not reside in Ireland: Lugh thus learned his many skills from the fairies, a useful trade indeed.

🖼: J. Brideson

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John Anster Christian Fitzgerald was a Victorian era fairy painter and portrait artist. Many of his fairy paintings are dark and contain images of ghouls, demons, and references to drug use; his work has been compared to Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Brueghel

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