October has arrived! 🎃
There's a lot of prompt lists out there, but every year I just draw what comes to me. 🙃

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On this very spooky first day of October, be sure to leave a trail of breadcrumbs to find your way home. And no matter how delicious that candy house appears, beware the witch of the wood!

Art: Arthur Rackham

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Another favorite is Baba Yaga! Living deep amid the forest in a turning chicken-leg hut; fortified by magical skulls. Known to help strays, she gets around on a flying pestle & mortar; using a broom to sweep away her tracks.

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In the land of permafrost, resides the Snow Queen's castle of ice; where she holds captive 1of 2 best While one is trapped, the other goes on a fantastical search. Soaring with the northern lights & encountering great creatures at the ocean's depth!

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illustration for "The Ring of Seven" ('Stories from the Arabian Nights"), by Anton Pieck (1895-1987, Dutch)

image via Aeron Alfrey at https://t.co/XsutGwPXfM

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"Mr and Mrs Vinegar lived in a vinegar bottle..."
Today we're bringing an English Fairy Tale for - Mr and Mrs Vinegar. Click the link to read the full story: https://t.co/9naFJbF3mU

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An illustration of Snow White and Rose Red, with a knife instead of scissors, for 🌹❄️

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Wolf & the 7 Young Goats. In this the wolf sees a mother goat leave her 7 kids at home. With the help of a Baker, wolf tricks the kids into opening the door; swallowing them whole! Mother goat finds wolf & saves her kids. Stitching him up with rocks.

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From https://t.co/kilbtjUGM3 comes this political cartoon. The text on the site says it depicts: "Red Riding Hood as the people of Ireland, wolf as the landlords...and the “brave Irish woodman” as the hero coming to save the Irish from the villainous landlords.

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London illustrator Charles Robinson was the son of an illustrator, his two brothers were also illustrators (one was William Heath Robinson) He secured a place to study at The Royal Academy but hadn't enough money to attend. This is his Red Riding Hood c. 1910

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The Wild Swans. H.C. Andersen's tale of transformation, magic, and devotion is a favorite of ours.

Photo by Laurel, illustration by Susan Jeffers.

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In Lang's Red Fairy Book 1890, you find Charles Marelle's tale "The True History of Little Goldenhood". The enchanted hood made by grandmother witch, burns wolf like scorching red-hot coals. In this way, he is defeated. No wood-cutter necessary

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Four illustrations from Arthur Rackham’s 'Grimm’s Fairy Tales'. Rackham (England, 1867–1939) was probably one of the most influential illustrators that ever lived. Walt Disney was a big admirer.

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Here is Twig from , an energetic boy who is Goddess-blessed as a Master Fisherman. His job is to teach others his skills, and he has very long life, but at the cost of never being able to love or have children.

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When I was little I was rather haunted by the hatred in the evil queen’s face, and her vividly-portrayed demise, as it appears in the version of the I wasn’t that interested in Snow White herself!

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Growing up in a family of male siblings, I much preferred the story of the kind, devoted and resourceful sisters in Snow White and Rose Red, to Snow White. I adore the child like simplicity and naïve realism of the illustrations of Felicitas Kuhn-Klapschy.

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The Brothers Grimm first published Snow White in 1812. Contemporary artist Charles Santore illustrated their story in a 2010 book using a realistic style, while still endowing his images with enchanted touches of fantasy and magic.

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