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“Irish Fairy Tales" by James Stephens, first published in 1920, features beautiful art by Arthur Rackham.
Happy ☘️ to all!

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"Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand"
~The Stolen Child by WB Yeats

Art: Arthur Rackham

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LEPRECHAUNS are considered the only faerie to have a trade which is that of shoe-making. It's believed because leprechaun’s dance so much they are always in need of new shoes.
🎨David T. Wenzel

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Happy ☘️
This Celtic tale from Ireland is called The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire. A story of a five-headed giant, twelve brutal slayings and a laugh so loud the whole world heard it. Read the tale via link: https://t.co/qROdqUTLRi

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At the rainbow's end, the Leprechaun kept a purse filled with unending gold. If you caught him, you could claim it, as long as you never took your eyes off him or left the spot. He was full of wiles and always managed to keep that gold safe

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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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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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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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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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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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Fairytale classics are timeless. They constantly tell us of the virtues and flaws of human nature which is what makes them ageless. Here's one of the most beautiful books I've ever seen of Snow White and the seven dwarves.

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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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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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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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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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