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Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker, 1923.

A little late post for but these are just too irresistible.

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2020-04-15

We are starting the process of making a black and white silent film treatment of The Blind Fisherman (The Prelude to the Hopeless, Maine Story)

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from "The Rubaiyat of Omar Kayyam"

by Rene Bull (1872-1942, Irish-born, of English/French parents)

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Dísir play a deity-like role associated with fate and perhaps protection in the Norse world. Swedish band have commemorated them in a great ballad, describing how they float among the mist, so shimmering and cold. https://t.co/CuTf0VFbIc

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Cinderella and her fairy godmother

by Ambrose Dudley (1867-1951, English)

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✨ Wish Granters! ✨
Fiddlehead Fern --this plant puts forth a wonderful seed at midnight known as a 'Wish Seed!'
It was to be carefully collected and gave the power to discover hidden treasures.
🎇 🎇 🎇

"Awakening" from my Shimmirians art series.

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Extract from 'The Foundling Fairy'... "Kicky had never known anyone as kind as Sessile, the Tree Fairy."

https://t.co/Qmp1p2xFyC

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'Magic Spring' by Michael Parkes.

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In fairy tales, wishing for children carries risk. In the stories of Tom Thumb, Thumbelina, & The Hazel-Nut Child, wishes are made for a child, no matter how small. These people get their wish: their child never gets any bigger than their thumb, or a hazel nut.

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Myrddin: From a sequestered place rise up and speak of books of divine inspiration without fear, and a tale of a maiden and a dream in sleep.

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'Knights of the Round Table'
- Alex Blum
pub. Gilberton Company, USA 1953

found here; https://t.co/ZM5BcNFfot

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by Katherine Cameron (1874 – 1965, Scottish) in "Stories of King Arthur's Knights", Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., pub. c.1909

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by Katherine Cameron (1874 – 1965, Scottish) in "Stories of King Arthur's Knights", Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., pub. c.1909

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by Katherine Cameron (1874 – 1965, Scottish) in "Stories of King Arthur's Knights", Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., pub. c.1909

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Merlin the Magician is based upon a real life 6th century bard named Myrddin. He first enters the Arthurian legend in Geoffrey of Monmouth's "Historia Regum Britanniae", 1135 AD.

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Kate Baylay's Russian fairy tale illustrations

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2020-04-07


The Moon Maiden is a science fiction is a  novel from Japan and made by Garrett P. Serviss. It was first published in book form in 1978 by William L. Crawford, without imprint, in an edition of 500 copies.

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2020-04-07

👑 🐸 Good Morning Isolators 🌈. Here’s Prince Charming ~ wishing you all a lovely day indoors isolating, and huuuge appreciation if you are a key worker 💙👏🏽☕️🌱🌞.

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'How Arthur Drew his sword Excalibur for the first time' - from 'The Romance of and His Night's of The Round Table' 🗡️ Illustration by Arthur Rackham https://t.co/TgT8b2uPFO

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