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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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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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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

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