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4. The witch used Rapunzel's hair to trick the Prince into climbing into the tower. She cursed that he'd never see R again, and threw him from the tower. As he fell, he got blinded by viscious thorns, and staggered, bereft, into the unknown
🎨 Gordon Laite

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2020-03-04


4. Rapunzel let down her hair, and Prince climbed up. They planned her escape; she'd weave a ladder from skeins of silk he'd bring.
Alas witch found out, cut off her hair + kept it, turfing R out into the middle of nowhere.

🎨 G. Laite, L'Uba Koncekova-Vesela

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2020-03-04

Edward Gorey's illustrations of Rumpelstiltsken for

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2020-03-03

ROSE RED in for
w/vintage book covers
🎨by Gustaf Tenggren
🎨by Frances Brundage

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2020-03-03

The tale of Snow-White and Rose-Red comes from The Brothers Grimm. Not to be confused with Snow-White, this story is about two sisters, an angry thieving dwarf, and a kings son banished as a wild bear. Illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith https://t.co/2qgm4TQLmb

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Snow White and Rose Red is a fairy tale which uses the motif of doubling - the two individuals who express opposite but complimentary traits. In a way, the two are the opposed sides of one individual, as fairy tales characters do not allow for ambiguity.

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Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid (1837) as illustrated by Edmund Dulac (1882-1953).

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Jaroslav Panuška was born in 1872. Although considered a master of landscape painting, Panuška had a penchant for the dark & strange and was inspired by Czech fairy tales.

Baba Yaga
Vampire
Vampire Leaves
Water Sprite

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2020-03-03

by Harold Gaze (1885-1962, NZ)
He came to UK, studied art at several places in London, then emigrated to USA in 1927, where he continued illustrating + did some work for Disney.

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2020-02-26

Ever hear the tale of Whitebear Whittington? An Appalachian shapeshifting tale, a complex, magical blend of Beauty & the Beast and the Eros/Psyche myth. A young girl is promised by her father to a young man under a spell - a man by night, but a bear by day.

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2020-02-26

Here's a bonus Grimms' fairy tale that I drew last year, since it features pancakes (and a wolf and a fox conspiring to steal them). Happy pancake day - I hope the wolves keep away from your pancakes.

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2020-02-26

for Andersen's "Thumbelina" by Rie Cramer (1887-1997, Dutch)
The miniature girl's fortunes ebb & flow during her encounters with animals;- abducted by frogs, housed by a mouse, lined up to marry a mole, rescued by a swift she'd nursed to health.

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2020-02-26

In the Italian Catskin variant, The She-Bear, an old woman provides the heroine, Preziosa, with a wooden stick that, when placed in her mouth, transforms her into a bear. She uses it to escape marriage to her father.

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2020-02-25

Hand Christian Andersen’s ‘The Wild Swans,’ illustrations by Susan Jeffers.

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2020-02-25

The Six Swans fairytale by The Brothers Grimm is about a princess who comes to the rescue of her six brothers who have been turned into swans. Illustrated here by Warwick Goble

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2020-02-25


There's a rich seam of outstanding in Carroll's beloved "Alice" books to explore, but this original remains a firm favourite, with it's unbridled whimsy
- by John Tenniel, in 'Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There' by Lewis Carroll

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2020-02-25

Six years of silence, six little shirts of star-flowers, and an escape from death by fire... The Six Swans is a tale from the Brothers Grimm about six brothers that are changed into swans by their evil stepmother. Read the full tale: https://t.co/Yg2YRMnKw9

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2020-02-25