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Illustration from Sleeping Beauty, or Little Briar Rose, also titled in English as The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods. Illustration by Arthur Rackham (England, 1867-1939).

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2020-03-17

In Irish folklore, pookas are mischievous shapeshifters who take forms of both humans & animals. Usually they gallop around as black horses, knocking down fences & stomping crops. They'll entice drunkards onto their backs for wild, death-defying rides.

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2020-03-17

Jorinde and Joringel are young lovers who roam too close to the witch's castle. And now the witch has frozen Joringel and transformed Jorinde into a nightingale to add to her collection of seven thousand caged birds.

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2020-03-11

It's and in keeping with the theme of Hansel & Gretel, Jack & the Beanstalk, and other with children, I'm sharing a few special ones!

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2020-03-10

In the first fairy tale printed in English (1631) Tom Thumb (a tiny boy named by the Fairy Queen) gets into numerous scrapes (swallowed by a cow, baked in pie…), impresses King Arthur, rides a mouse, and is killed by a spider
Art: Margaret Tarrant [1888-1959]

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by J. Lawson of "Babes in the Wood" in 'Chambers's Fluent Readers' - 1895.

via https://t.co/QwgD2TQQ4r

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2020-03-10

A Germanic legend states will-o'-the-wisp are the souls of unbaptized children; to free them, one need only throw a handful of consecrated ground at the fiery orbs.
Will-o'-wisp by Ilyich at Deviant Art

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Hansel and Gretel find the gingerbread cottage; by Janusz Grabiański (1929-1976, Polish 🇵🇱), in "Grimms' Fairy Tales", pub. Jonathan Cape 1962.

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2020-03-10

Hansel and Gretel weren't the only children abandoned by their parents.

Perrault has a brilliantly named character
Hop-o'-My-Thumb. This little hero finds some clever ways to survive and to save his life as well as that of his brothers.

🎨Gustave Doré

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2020-03-10



1. by Jean D. Howe, "Jack and the Beanstalk", Blackie, undated, early 1950s
2. "Jack and the Beanstalk", by Molly B. Thomson, pub. Collins, undated (circa early 1950s)

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2020-03-10

Jack & the Beanstalk is the best known of the Jack tales: a series of Cornish & English stories of the stock character Jack, a lazy yet clever boy who gets wealthy through schemes or luck. Appalachian folklore also has its unique versions of the Jack tales.

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2020-03-10

Gustave Doré's illustrations to Charles Perrault's fairy tales appeared in 1862. The seemingly innocent tale translated as 'Little Tom Thumb' contains one of the most unsettling images in fairy tale history, the ogre's slaying of his seven sleeping daughters

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2020-03-10

"Hansel and Gretel" is a German fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812. Hansel and Gretel are kidnapped by a cannibalistic witch living in a house made of gingerbread, cake, candy, and many other pastries.They escape by outwitting her.

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2020-03-10

The grave mound. This is a great story. A miser repents on his deathbed and gives a poor farmer charity, if he will guard his grave for three days. So the farmer and a passing soldier protect the grave from the devil and trick the devil out of his gold as well!

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2020-03-05

“That was the most awkward Wednesday he ever remembered.” ( J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit)

So, we have , & ... but Wednesday? Any idea what to do with a Wednesday? Or am I missing something?

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2020-03-03

So many Rapunzel variants start with her mother's pregnancy cravings for a rare plant, often parsley, that is growing in a witch or fairy's garden, and when the theft is discovered, the unborn child is claimed as recompense.

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2020-03-04

Rose Red and her sister Snow White first appear in The Ungrateful Dwarf by Karoline Stahl (1821). This tale was expanded by Wilhelm Grimm and included in 3rd edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen (1837).

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2020-03-04