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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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Fairy Godmothers are closely linked to The Fates who attend births and decide destinies. They emerged during the French salon fairy-tale tradition, whose tellers also so happened to be wiser, older women...


🎨Edmund Dulac

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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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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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👑 🐸 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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Today's heroine, the Mastermaid, may be the cleverest & most disruptive in fairyland (see the bit near the end where she takes various men to bed, only to make them stand up all night unable to let go of suggestive items like pokers...) https://t.co/CSUxFMFtZr

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🌷#Melusine;
A heraldic symbol, as well as name, of Germanic origin; meaning
“hard worker”;

Melusine, mother’s name, ‘Pressyne;’(suffix ‘syne’)- ‘to take on an appearance of’ ~ siren?

MELISENDE; Melisandre
{name used by GR.Martin,’Songs of Fire and Ice’,}

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