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Sweet-scented, like a dream
Of Fairyland they seem...
Jasmine 

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2019-07-02

Hey I'm donating all PDF sales of Beauty and The Beast to to help facilitate the release of migrants held in American concentration camps. 750 pages of fully illustrated, award-winning fairy tale angst https://t.co/BTlY8DO6KN

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2019-06-26

Betta refuses to marry, unhappy w/her choices. Using large amounts of sugar, sweet almonds, scented water, musk, amber, jewels, gold thread, a trough & a silver trowel, she makes a statue of it, prays to the Goddess of Love, and the statue becomes a living man.

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2019-06-25

Elisa saves her enchanted brothers in the Wild Swans, illustrated in exquisite fashion by Nadezhda Illarionova 🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢👸🏾

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2019-06-25

For comes "Allerleirauh" - a princess flees from her father, who wants to marry her and disguises herself as a poor girl in an ugly fur. After found by another king she lives in his kitchen, until she conquers his heart in a Cinderella like story.

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2019-06-25

The brilliant Australian artist Ida Rentoul Outhwaite died 1960. Her Waterfall Fairy and both beautiful bat- & broomstick-riding are from “The Enchanted Forest” (1921). Her Witch on a hill surrounded by familiars is from “Elves & Fairies” (1916).

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2019-06-25

A few of the fairies/mythic creatures from Scotland. Researching my latest WIP these became my favorites.Water creatures from Scotland's northern islands.
🎨:
Selkie by Torrance
Undine by Rackham
Nuckelavee by Torrance

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2019-06-19

Elsa Beskow used elements from fairy & folktales such elves, goblins, fairy-flowers, talking animals in her stories. Here King Winter’s palace (Ollie’s Ski Trip), Thumbelina, Children of the Forest. (2/2)

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2019-06-18

For some beautiful illustrations with trolls by John Bauer:

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2019-06-18

The awesome American artist Marjorie Torrey (1891 - 1964) illustrated several children's books, including

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2019-06-04

In Leicestershire, in the Midlands, is a hag called Black Annis w/ iron claws & craving for human flesh. She walks the night seeking those out after dark. Finding none she'll reach thru open windows to snatch people. Art by Anna Pavleeva https://t.co/Z1VTsi8owB

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2019-06-05

Moon boats to Dreamland: Australian artist Ida Rentoul Outhwaite's (1888 - 1960) lovely depictions of children sailing off on magical adventures at night-- the beauty of dreaming.

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2019-06-05

FAIRIES AND ROBINS
It was held to be unlucky to harm a robin because they were believed to bury the bodies of people who died in the woods but show ambivalence towards them because of their association with humans. Images J.A. Fitzgerald (1832-1906)

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2019-06-04

Helen Stratton died in 1961. These beauties are from “The Lily of Life: A Fairy Tale” (1913), by Marie of Romania.

Beasts of Prey
The Stag
The Wise Woman
The Tombs

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2019-06-04

This image of Sleeping Beauty, from Heinrich Lefler’s 1905 fairytale calendar is one of my absolute favourites. I love the romantic intertwining of their bodies & the way the woman is an active participant in the kiss rather than a passive recipient.

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2019-05-28

Concept art for Night on Bald Mountain by Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen. The nightmare-inducing Fantasia segment was based on Mussorgsky's tone poem and inspired by slavic the god Czernobog is summoned forth by a dark ritual on St. John's Eve.

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2019-05-21

Dutch artist Lidia Postma’s soft impressionist style enhances the darker elements of Cinderella. Note one nasty stepsister's blood-soaked feet after cutting off her heels to try to fit into the slipper. Another stepsister seems to have bloody toes...

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2019-05-21

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