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“Goblin Market” (1862) by Christina Rossetti is a narrative poem telling the story of Laura and Lizzie, two sisters tempted with fruit by goblin merchants.
Check out full poem here: https://t.co/rcMn2Raoxa
(Illustration by Arthur Rackham 1933)

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2019-11-06


The legend of Swinoujscie windmill: you could enter being and old person and come out as the young version of yourself again. The eternal chase for youth.

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2019-11-06

- Welsh Folktales: The Maiden of the Green Forest - https://t.co/peTfNDEb1C

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2019-11-05

Be careful you don't tread on any mushrooms growing in the garden as these are the homes of tiny fairies who often come out after midnight to dance and play around them ...

🎨 Florence Anderson

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2019-11-05

Nivalis Cottage from Fleabane ~ a Fairy story

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2019-11-05



Not all witches are bad. The beautiful & benevolent Glinda is the Good Witch of the South
in L Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the most powerful sorceress & protector of Princess Ozma in the Land of Oz.
Art: John R Neill

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2019-10-30

My mother she killed me,
My father he ate me,
My sister, little Marlinchen,
Gathered together all my bones,
Tied them in a silken handkerchief,
Laid them beneath the juniper-tree,
Kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I!

Illust. Warwick Goble

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2019-10-29

Sometimes a assumed the form of a beautiful singing virgin who'd died young, or a shrouded shrieking crone, crouching beneath a tree. In actuality, both were harbingers of coming doom to a human family member.👻

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2019-10-29

Now at Samhain the Unseelie Court rides forth as the walls between the worlds grow thin. These are the merciless faery folk of Autumn and Winter who, unlike their summer cousins, may cause harm to humans - anything from simple mischief to dark malevolence. 1/

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2019-10-29

The Dullahan a tale of dark fae and woe for Halloween. He rides the Irish countryside looking for souls to collect carrying a jack-o'-lantern as a light. If he stops and calls out your name your bound to drop dead.
🎨 BobKehl on deviantart.

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2019-10-29

Beauty & the Beast, (La Belle et la Bête) is a written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in 1740 - Sharing 3 from different artists inspired by this story: Warwick Goble, Anne Anderson, & Walter Crane.

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2019-10-22

'Fairy Tales' illustrated by Margaret W Tarrant - my copy 1948

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2019-10-22

The Grimm The Stolen Farthings follows a child who haunts two farthings. Meant for the poor but hidden for herself before she died, it is only when her mother and father find them and give them away that she haunts no more.



Art: Zac Retz

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2019-10-22

When meets Pinocchio is frankly terrifying. He's set alight, enslaved to a puppet master, lynched by ruffians, swallowed by a fish & plunged alive into a pot before becoming a real boy.
Ills Folkyard from my treasured 1914 Dent edition

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2019-10-16

Not to be confused with Babayaga, is the bogeyman, Babaroga! With a giant horn protruding from her forehead, Babaroga is the hag who snatches misbehaving children through cracks in the ceiling. Shoving them in a bag, she drags them to her cave to be devoured!#FairyTaleTuesday

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2019-10-15

Snow White’s stepmother, the Evil Queen is described as being "knowledgeable in the dark arts of witchcraft" and possesses a magic mirror. Beautifully illustrated here by Trina Schart Hyman.

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2019-10-15

Serafina Pekkala Finnish (Pullman’s His Dark Materials) sees herself as subject to fate, yet argues that all people must act as if they possess free will. She becomes Will Parry & Lyra Belacqua's guardian helping them throughout their journey.

🎨Sivcova

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2019-10-08

In Italian folklore, Befana the Christmas Witch is an old hag who brings gifts to children on Epiphany Eve (the night of Jan 5) Being a good housekeeper,she sweeps the floor before she leaves. To some the sweeping meant the sweeping away of problems.
🎨MTonin

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