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In Japanese mythology, a futakuchi-onna is known by her two mouths. A normal one on her face & a second terrifying one on the back of her head beneath her hair. In stories, her true nature is only revealed at the end.

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2019-05-21


An English tale: Fairy 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♂️Ointment:
A midwife is s given an salve to rub in ia baby's eyes.
Accidentally, she rubs her own eyes with it.
This enables her to see a mysterious, transforming house/cave to which she has been summoned.
Her adventure begins.

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2019-05-14

The Yuki-Onna, or Japanese snow maiden, is thought to be the spirit of someone who perished in the snow. In many stories, she appears to travellers trapped in snowstorms & uses her icy breath to leave them as frost-coated corpses.

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2019-05-14

Iara, or Uiara or Yara, is a siren, or in Brazilian and It is based on ancient Tupi and Guaraní lore, meaning 'lady of the lake or water queen.' Her presence is that of a fae seducing jungle wanderers.

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2019-05-14

Four illustrations by Edmund Dulac from the classic Hans Christian Anderson fairytale “The Little Mermaid”.

I Am a Mermaid by Edmund Dulac
Mermaid by Edmund Dulac
Dissolved Into Foam by Edmund Dulac
Rescue by Edmund Dulac

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2019-05-14

The White Snake, collected by the Brothers Grimm, tells of a servant who takes a small bite of the king's meal & finds himself able to speak with animals. His newfound animal friends help him through numerous "impossible" tasks to wed the princess.

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2019-05-07

"Humhumhum. Honey, honey, ha, ha, honey, la, la..." buzzed Mr. Mumble Bee. He was in a jolly old mood; he couldn't wait to see 's face when she finally saw Serena.

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2019-05-08

JJ Grandville’s , particularly his caricatures of anthropomorphic animals, influenced the work of John Tenniel in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass. (Here more Les Fleurs Animées)

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2019-05-07

Les Fleurs Animées by French artist J J Grandville (pseudonym of Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gerard, 1803 - 1847). The , which are both satirical and poetic, were published posthumously in 1847.

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2019-05-07

'And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it'

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2019-05-01

Chinese Fairy Tales & Fantasies (Folio Society)
Lovely 'flowing' illustrations by Victo (Victoria) Ngai (b.1988, grew up in Hong Kong, lives in Los Angeles)

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2019-05-01

The masterful art of Arthur Rackham for the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales brought the characters to life. As a boy I felt like I was peeking in on an impossible magical Otherworld in his fanciful style, yet, through his skillful realism, witnessing actual events.

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2019-04-30


celebrating the illustrations of
ARTHUR RACKHAM (1867-1939) in his 1933 book
"The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book: A Book of Old Favourites with New Illustrations"

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2019-04-24

Pixie and skylark by my hubby .. a little something for and because we've been watching the larks singing over the fields today.

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2019-04-11

E. T. A. Hoffmann´s (1776–1822) Nutcracker and the Mouse King illustrated by Artuš Scheiner (1863–1938), a self-taught artist from Bohemia whose first book of fairy tale illustrations was released in 1902.

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2019-04-09

Whereas "The Frog Prince" is the first story of the collection of the Brothers Grimm, there's also a about "The Frog Princess", which has multiple versions. The most famous are the russian "Tsarevna Frog" and "Vasilisa the Wise".

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2019-04-09

Golden Goose - a about a young man, who gets a golden goose with magic feathers. Every man or woman grabbing the goose or each other is stuck fast. In this way they all make a princess laugh, who never ever smiles.

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2019-04-03

“Only the chosen ones can be admitted into the realms of the beautiful,” said the apple-tree branch ... from “The Conceited Apple Branch” by Hans Christian Andersen

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2019-04-03