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Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit and his sisters, Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail.

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Snow White and Rose Red is one of the folk tales collected and adapted by the Bothers Grimm. It is the story of two sisters, one fair and one dark, who live with their widowed mother.
🎨Kerry Darlington.

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"The Six Swans" illustration by Oscar Pletsch (1830-1888, German)

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Brigit/Brigid/Bríg "exalted one" are 3 Irish goddesses! 9th C Cormac's Glossary written by monks, says Brigid was "the goddess whom poets adored" & that she had 2 Brigid the healer & Brigid the smith. Some say they were syncretised with St Brigid! 🎨?

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'My long and bubbling friend,' said the Djinn [of All Deserts], 'what's this I hear of your doing no work?'

Illustration for How the Camel got his Hump; Kipling's Just So Stories, Folio Society, 2013. Watercolour.

For today's theme of Mountains & Deserts.

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Lena dances with the knight

W.E. Björk / Among gnomes and trolls

Illustration by John Bauer, 1915

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Mary Frances Muriel Rice Oxley, British (1887 - 1965)

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The Roc/Rukh is a monsterous bird that can lift elephants into the sky & makes several appearances in the 1,001 Arabian Nights.



🎨 by Edward Julius Detmold
Plate from The Arabian Nights, 'The Roc Which Fed Its Young On Elephants.'

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The giantess-turned-godess, Skadi, has a deep and unwavering love of the mountains, which contributes to serious marital strife with her sexy-footed husband who conversely much prefers the sea. They don’t live together anymore. 🖼️ Denyse Treble-Shorrocks

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Fairies in a Mountain Landscape by Mary Evans

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Barbegazi (from French barbe-glacée, meaning ‘frozen beard’) are mythical gnomes from the Swiss Alps. They ski the mountains with their large feet, surfing avalanches and warning humans of impending danger.

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in Sagittarius, 23 November 17:57 EST, 22:57 GMT. A new moon means new beginnings, & in fiery, mutable Sag it is the time to create them, with a sense of adventure, optimism & honesty, as we head towards the next full moon.

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If Red Riding Hood entered a forest in a plague mask, the only conclusion that could be made is: here brings danger.


by Asya Yordanova

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'The Madness of Mis'

Overcome with grief, Mis transforms herself into the ultimate 'wild woman', fleeing to the mountains where she stays, living out her anger, loss & grief with her whole body.

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Sinbad, in his second adventure (as recounted in 1001 Nights) voyages to a desert island where he finds the enormous egg of a Roc. When the gigantic bird approaches, Sinbad grabs its claw & is carried to the Valley of Diamonds & collects the desert's treasure.

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"The Little Girl & the Winter Whirlwinds" is a Bulgarian tale of a brave girl who scales a high mountain to seek out the wizard Father Frost. The evil Winter Witch has cursed the land with an eternal winter, but Father Frost, once alerted, puts an end to it.

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🐚🐚Beautiful Mermaids by a favorite Artist: Victor Nizovtsev 🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️For:

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Where words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Andersen

Dancing to the Piper / Beatrix Potter

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