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In The Golden Reed Pipe, a boy named Bayberry rescues his sister, Little Red, from a dragon by playing a magic flute. Brother and sister peel the dragon's skin and build a house from the bones. They plow their fields with the horn, and grow rich and prosperous.

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”Bland tomtar och troll” (”Among Gnomes and Trolls”) with Einar Norelius

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Dragons and kitsune both feature prominently in various Asian and legends. https://t.co/iydPU8pV9z

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After saving a sea turtle, Urashima Tarō was carried to the Dragon Palace under the sea to spend time with the Princess. After what seemed like a few days, he returned to the surface to find that centuries had gone by while he remained a young man.

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The Chinese dragon unlike the Western dragon is a kind and wise being, not the representation of evil. The dragon is a marine creature that live in seas and rivers, so it does not spit fire. It has no wings, but it can fly with its magic.

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The Butterfly Lovers is a tragic love story of two young lovers Zhu and Liang, kept apart by Zhu's father because Liang is poor. They each die of a broken heart, turn into butterflies and are reunited again

🎨 Yun Hua Liu Nian

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In Chinese Mythology, the fox spirit (Huli Jing) is considered a trickster as it is able to transform into a human being, usually a beautiful woman, in order to bewitch men and steal their energy. This will eventually help the fox spirit to achieve immortality.

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'The Boy Who Drew Cats' (Japanese: 猫を描いた少年) is a fairytale in which a farmer's youngest son, cast out for drawing pictures of cats when he should be working, brings those cats to life to kill a goblin-rat, and saves his father's farm (pic: Kitty aCATemy)

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The Picture Wife A peasant weds a beauty, and carries her picture with him all day long. A feudal lord spots the pic, covets the wife for himself, and sets the hub 3 tricky tasks, with forfeit of his wife as failure penalty. He and his wife foil the lord

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Illustrations by Victo (Victoria) Ngai (b.1988 in Hong Kong, lives in Los Angeles) for the Folio Society’s CHINESE FAIRY TALES & FANTASIES. The legends include underworld quests, lessons from animals, trials of virtue & fortitude, journeys to enlightenment.

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In The Dancing Water, Singing Apple, and Speaking Bird, three royal children, born with moons and stars on their heads, are raised by a deer in the forest. In order to save her brothers, the princess confronts a mystical bird who has turned them to stone.

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Donkey Cabbages When a huntsman gives an old beggar lady his coins, she gratefully tells him how and where to find two magical items that'll bring him great fortune. He does as she bid, and so his adventures begin.. https://t.co/emJjV7HBOn

🎨 Gustaf Tenggren

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In Bengali tales, birds byangomi (fem.)/ byangoma (masc.) are seers, born blind. If, as chicks, a blood offering is made willingly - one drop in each eye - they may bond enough to become familiar-like. . . but don’t count on it.

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"The Nightingale" by HC Andersen
An emperor prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. When he is near death, it is the nightingale's song that restores his health showing things of value are not always gold.
🎨Dulac

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All I feel like doing right now is sleeping. Sometimes things just get too much and sleeping for a hundred years sounds quite appealing 💤

🖼: Sleeping Beauty by Edward Burne-Jones

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Some beautiful birds in art for
1: 'Shrike and Bluebird with Begonia & Wild Strawberry' - Hokusai, 1834.
2: 'White Herons & Willow' - Shoson Ohara, 1926.
3: 'Blue Bird on a Branch' - Seiko, Ca. 1900.
4: 'Crows in Moonlight' - Shoson Ohara, 1927.

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In 1888, Oscar Wilde's beautiful The Nightingale and the Rose was first published. Inspired by Persian myth and Hans Andersen, this poignant tale has an underlying motif of how artists' self-sacrifice can remain unnoticed...

🎨Charles Robinson

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