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In Norse Myth, Ymir is in the creation story & the first Giant, created from the of Niflheim. His hermaphroditic body produced generations of Frost Giants! Because he opposed the rule of the gods, his demise led to the creation of humans & earth.

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“He looked at the daytime world for the very first time. What he saw with his big black eyes was almost too beautiful to believe: a morning sky ribboned with peach, pink, and yellow.” Read the Elf Owl on https://t.co/Tj2gmdo6Ib

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2020-01-29

Hans Andersen's Little Mermaid is believed to have been inspired by his love & longing for Edvard Collin. Lovely, lonely, biromantic, asexual Andersen sent Collin his story along with a letter, in which he described his soul as being a fathomless lake...#FairyTaleTuesday

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by John Reinhard Weguelin (1849-1927)-an English painter inspired by classical antiquity & mythology.
-The Mermaid of Zennor, 1900
-The Lone Sea Maid, 1900

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The Little Mermaid, illustrated in 1911 by Edmund Dulac (1882-1953), French British naturalised illustrator.

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In Irish folklore the Selkie woman could only shed her skin once every 7 years to become human and dance under the moon. This limitation was held to be due to the fact that the Selkie housed a condemned soul or may have been a fallen angel


🎨Melissa Schaschwary

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For "The Water of Life", a of the Brothers Grimm. Three princes go on a quest to search for the Water of Life to heal the dying king. As the youngest prince can fetch the water from a enchanted castle, his brothers betray him.

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“Undine”, or Ondine, is a fairy-tale novella, written by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué in 1909, about a water spirit who marries a knight named Huldebrand in order to gain a soul.
(illustration by Arthur Rackham, 1909)

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2/2 by Feodor Rojankovsky, in "The Tall Book of Nursery Tales", (Harper and Rox 1992), copyrighted to Artist & Writers Guild Inc., 1944


2. from "The Pot that Wouldn't Stop Boiling"

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by artist Gennady Spirin for the fairy tales "The Real Princess", and "Children of Lir"

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by Vladimir Konashevich, for Pushkin's "The Tale of the Dead Princess & the Seven Knights"

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2020-01-22


‘The Bee and the Orange Tree’;
une fille, Aimée, qu'elle put voir, et se lièrent d'amitié avec les Ogres; et les a interrogés sur leurs méfaits; ils lui font confiance et la croient, car elle peut parler aux abeilles,
(French fairy tale, by Madame d'Aulnoy),

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Joyce Mercer (1896 - 1965, English) for two Hans Christian Andersen stories:

1. The Wild Swans - from 1838
https://t.co/l9oifn84pm

2. The Red Shoes - from 1845
https://t.co/dhdj4XEGwV

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Červená labuť (Red Swan) is a fairy tale compilation by Czech National Revival writers like Karel Jaromir Erben and Božena Němcová. It includes a Czech variation of the Russian Firebird tale. Gorgeous illustrations by Karel Svolinsky.

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- Greek Mythology: Cassandra – the Gift and the Curse of Apollo - https://t.co/wtgDMp19vS

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2020-01-21

“Once upon a thyme, when magic overruled logic, a very curious young girl lived with her grandmother at the edge of a silver forest.” Find the story and a recipe for Winter Chicken Vegetable Gratin at https://t.co/Tj2gmdo6Ib. Art:

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2020-01-15

Happy This week on the we're focused more on the side of things, but the first has a young apprentice getting painted as a fool and is definitely a great start to the week.
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