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For Fairytale lovers, this book consists of eight individual tales, but when read altogether also reads as one complete story.

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Fairy, also spelled faerie or faery, a mythical being of folklore and romance usually having magic powers and dwelling on earth in close relationship with humans.

📷The Yew Fairy by Cicely Mary Barker.

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Hello again, This is Crystal signing on as your next host. Thanks to our previous host for sharing all your wonderful stories and lore. This week’s theme is favourite folktales and fairy tales! Tweet your hearts out! (Image: W.J. Morgan)

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a epic poem about bravery, honor, romance - and beheading.
Originally a 14th century Middle English poem, this tale has kept alive by language scholars, novelists, and recently the script writers of "Adventure Time" a cartoon.

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When a prostitute dies before being able to buy her freedom, her clothes r donated to a temple in exchange for a funeral and prayers. However, if the woman is still owed money from her clients, her spirit might reanimate her kimono, becoming a Kosode No Te.

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One of my favourite bits of writing was adapting the already fairly weird brothers Grimm stories - like The Three Snake Leaves, which includes a princess who stipulates that when she dies, her beloved must be buried alive https://t.co/oicPMaKxAp

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Greuceanu is one of the oldest tales of written Romanian folklore, the protagonist having to set the sun and moon free from Zmei (archetypical devil/dragon like villains).

Old stamp of Greuceanu (from the collection of folk tales compiled by Petre Ispirescu)

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Tatterhood is born to her queen mother riding on a goat & holding a wooden spoon. She goes on to save her sister from trolls & more.

Art: unknown

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In Hawaii, a myth describes how the moon came to be called Mahina. The deity Hina, tired of weaving kapa cloth, scaled a rainbow to the Sun, but it was too hot. She then climbed to the Moon, and, pleased, made it her home. “Mahina” is derived from her name.

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Great tales have been told of the highly bearish Bödvar Bjarki for hundreds of years. He and Beowulf both had connections to Götaland and might originally have been kin or even one and the same. 🖼 Louis Moe

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Would you kiss a frog to find your prince? Don't worry! In the original Grimm version of the tale, the frog's curse breaks when it's thrown against a wall.








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Little Briar-Rose is the Grimm’s version of Sleeping Beauty, published in 1812. Briar-rose is also known as the wild rose & has thorns that form hooks, just like the hedge that grows around Briar-Rose’s castle for 100 years until the prince arrives. Img: CMB

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‘Little Ida’s Flowers’ is the tale of a young girl who discovers her flowers are wilting because they exhausted themselves dancing at a magical ball. It is one of Hans Christian Andersen’s first fairytales, published 8th May 1835. It mentions 17 types of flower.

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The very first Cinderella tale was actually recorded around AD 850 in China. She was known as Yehhsien. Her shoes were made of gold and she wore a dress that was made of kingfisher feathers.

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An English tale tells of a baker’s daughter who used a tiny bit of dough when baking for the poor. When she put the loaf in the oven it expanded massively. She was so surprised she said ‘hoo hoo’ and turned into an owl as a warning to be generous to the poor.

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Oisín, son of Fionn, went off to Tír na nÓg (Land of Youth) for 300 years - he thought it was only 3. He returned but was warned not to get off his steed. He fell off the horse & on hitting the ground turned into a withered old man.



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I like a bit of gore in my folklore so here is the Beast of Gévaudan - let's preserve our wolves and foxes and live with wild beasts among us - they won't attack us but scarey stories are good too

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Mother Goose is an imaginary teller of & rhymes. Part witch-figure, her fame grew with Perrault's Tales (1695) including Cinderella & Sleeping Beauty.
Representing an ancient line of female storytellers, her origins have been lost
(🎨F Richardson)

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One of my favourite fairy tales is 'The Mastermaid' collected by Asbjørnsen & Moe. I've put a hint of broad Yorkshire into this light retelling to bring out the northerness. See if you can hear it! And the Mastermaid herself is a marvel. https://t.co/tbyk194bjR

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