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⚔️ Warrior Maidens ⚔️
Hua Mulan: translation of her name is Wood Orchid. Mu=wood Lan=Orchid -Hua means Flower. 🌺

Mulan may not be a historical person. Her legend is included in Yan Xiyuan's One Hundred Beauties- a compilation of women in Chinese folklore. 🌸

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The Grimms' tale Fundevogel is a children's novel in miniature: a little girl rescues her beloved foster brother from a wicked cook: they escape into the woods and she uses magic to save them... The lovely illustration is by Mercer Mayer. https://t.co/mzovFkXuE6

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TITANIA iconic images of Vivien Leigh as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Old Vic Theatre, 1937. The production, directed by Tyrone Guthrie, was set to Mendelssohn's incidental music

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The Little Mermaid (Hans Christian Andersen, 1837)

🎨Stephanie Law

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Jack and Lady Featherflight being pursued by the Giant

Art by Willard Bonte (c. 1905)

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What's your favorite fairy story? Tinker Bell was my first favorite from Peter Pan. I love the fairies in the Shirley Barber children's books. Magical.

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1001 Nights for
w/the tale of "The Fisherman & the Jinni"
An old fisherman finds a Jinni & tricks him into helping him
🎨Monro Orr (is it just me or does this genie look like Weird Al )
🎨Rene Bull

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What's your favorite One Thousand and One Nights dark retelling?

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Edmund Dulac’s of the sea and Sinbad's ship for the 1907 "Stories from the Arabian nights"

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"The Arabian Nights", Ward Lock & Co. Ltd., undated, c.1920
by A. E. Jackson

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"The Arabian Nights, their best known tales"
Illustrations by Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966)

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

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"But I don’t want to go among mad people" Alice remarked
"Oh, you can’t help that" said the Cat "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad"
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice
"You must be" said the Cat "or you wouldn’t have come here"

Tove Jansson

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2020-04-28

Freyja’s visit to the dwarves has been depicted by many artists over the years. These examples by Greg Hildebrandt and Charles Brock could cause one to think that she was visiting in an epic Tolkien sort of way, or in sweet, innocent Disney-esque fashion.

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The roc, who appears in the voyages of Sindbad the Sailor and Middle Eastern folklore, is a gargantuan bird of prey. On his adventures, Sindbad rides the leg of a roc to a valley of massive serpents.

🎨 Edward Julius Detmold

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-Lamp Origins- 🧞
'The Fisherman and the Jinni' -from the Arabian Tales-
has a genie bound in a jar. When the jar is opened the genie comes out in a plume of smoke.
So, the concept of a genie bound to a household container does have a basis in Arabic myth.

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Brian Wildsmith's illustrations for Tales From the Arabian Nights

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The original ballet adaptation of 'Scheherazade' premiered in 1910 by the Ballets Russes. The Ballet Russes' 'Scheherazade' is known for its costumes, opulent scenery,and erotic choreography and narrative which was rarely seen in ballets of the time
🎨Léon Bakst

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