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“That was the most awkward Wednesday he ever remembered.” ( J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit)

So, we have , & ... but Wednesday? Any idea what to do with a Wednesday? Or am I missing something?

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So many Rapunzel variants start with her mother's pregnancy cravings for a rare plant, often parsley, that is growing in a witch or fairy's garden, and when the theft is discovered, the unborn child is claimed as recompense.

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Rose Red and her sister Snow White first appear in The Ungrateful Dwarf by Karoline Stahl (1821). This tale was expanded by Wilhelm Grimm and included in 3rd edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen (1837).

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4. The witch used Rapunzel's hair to trick the Prince into climbing into the tower. She cursed that he'd never see R again, and threw him from the tower. As he fell, he got blinded by viscious thorns, and staggered, bereft, into the unknown
🎨 Gordon Laite

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4. Rapunzel let down her hair, and Prince climbed up. They planned her escape; she'd weave a ladder from skeins of silk he'd bring.
Alas witch found out, cut off her hair + kept it, turfing R out into the middle of nowhere.

🎨 G. Laite, L'Uba Koncekova-Vesela

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Edward Gorey's illustrations of Rumpelstiltsken for

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ROSE RED in for
w/vintage book covers
🎨by Gustaf Tenggren
🎨by Frances Brundage

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The tale of Snow-White and Rose-Red comes from The Brothers Grimm. Not to be confused with Snow-White, this story is about two sisters, an angry thieving dwarf, and a kings son banished as a wild bear. Illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith https://t.co/2qgm4TQLmb

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Snow White and Rose Red is a fairy tale which uses the motif of doubling - the two individuals who express opposite but complimentary traits. In a way, the two are the opposed sides of one individual, as fairy tales characters do not allow for ambiguity.

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Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid (1837) as illustrated by Edmund Dulac (1882-1953).

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Jaroslav Panuška was born in 1872. Although considered a master of landscape painting, Panuška had a penchant for the dark & strange and was inspired by Czech fairy tales.

Baba Yaga
Vampire
Vampire Leaves
Water Sprite

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¡Ya está aquí el cartel de Japan Weekend Barcelona, realizado por la artista ! Te esperamos los días 7 y 8 de marzo en La Farga de L'Hospitalet.

Programación y entradas: https://t.co/TpmFppSM5n

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by Harold Gaze (1885-1962, NZ)
He came to UK, studied art at several places in London, then emigrated to USA in 1927, where he continued illustrating + did some work for Disney.

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Ever hear the tale of Whitebear Whittington? An Appalachian shapeshifting tale, a complex, magical blend of Beauty & the Beast and the Eros/Psyche myth. A young girl is promised by her father to a young man under a spell - a man by night, but a bear by day.

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2020-02-26

Here's a bonus Grimms' fairy tale that I drew last year, since it features pancakes (and a wolf and a fox conspiring to steal them). Happy pancake day - I hope the wolves keep away from your pancakes.

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2020-02-26

In the Italian Catskin variant, The She-Bear, an old woman provides the heroine, Preziosa, with a wooden stick that, when placed in her mouth, transforms her into a bear. She uses it to escape marriage to her father.

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2020-02-25

Cursed by an evil fairy & transformed into a 'beast', only true love could restore the prince to his former self. 'Beauty and the Beast' may have been written specifically to prepare young girls in 18th century France for arranged marriages. 💍

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Hand Christian Andersen’s ‘The Wild Swans,’ illustrations by Susan Jeffers.

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The Six Swans fairytale by The Brothers Grimm is about a princess who comes to the rescue of her six brothers who have been turned into swans. Illustrated here by Warwick Goble

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