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Fairy Tale Illustrations by Adrienne Segur to L'Oiseau d'Or. All my Adrienne Segur (and there is a lot of it, 12 books) is at Art Passions:

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2020-02-05

1 A troll wizard fashions a mirror that distorts all reflected in it. He and his acolytes wreak havoc by gnarling up all who gaze upon their mirror. Seeking to mess with the angels, they go to carry the glass up to heaven, but it drops, and shatters to splinters

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2020-02-05

Alfred Smedberg's 'The Boy who was Never Afraid'
“Here is a piece of magic herbs for you. Pop it in your ear, and you will be able to understand everything the animals say, as long as you are in the woods.”
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by John Bauer

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2020-02-05

In 'Bortbytingarna', Helena Nyblom tells of a princess abducted + kept by trolls, who swapped her with a baby troll they'd also stolen Both changelings feel sad, so each sets off in search for a happy place...
via https://t.co/BLDh6KW5zI
John Bauer

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2020-02-04

~ "Will you just leave me like that?" called the sea king in a voice full of pain. "Shall I just return to my realm as lonely as ever?" ~
from the story 'Agneta and the Sea King'
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by John Bauer

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2020-02-04

by Aina Stenberg MasOlle (1885-1975, Swedish)
Aged 10 she sold her card designs to a publisher. She rebuilt an old rural log house to live in with her husband + kids. She was a prolific illustrator, inspired by the tales told by her country folk

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2020-02-04

In Norse Myth, Ymir is in the creation story & the first Giant, created from the of Niflheim. His hermaphroditic body produced generations of Frost Giants! Because he opposed the rule of the gods, his demise led to the creation of humans & earth.

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2020-02-04


“He looked at the daytime world for the very first time. What he saw with his big black eyes was almost too beautiful to believe: a morning sky ribboned with peach, pink, and yellow.” Read the Elf Owl on https://t.co/Tj2gmdo6Ib

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2020-01-29

Hans Andersen's Little Mermaid is believed to have been inspired by his love & longing for Edvard Collin. Lovely, lonely, biromantic, asexual Andersen sent Collin his story along with a letter, in which he described his soul as being a fathomless lake...#FairyTaleTuesday

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2020-01-29



A retelling of the classic selkie tale...

When Cassie comes across an injured otter, she has to help-but she finds a semi-naked man in her house the next day-and it's not Santa Claus!

Pre-order now!
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2020-01-29

in for
by John Reinhard Weguelin (1849-1927)-an English painter inspired by classical antiquity & mythology.
-The Mermaid of Zennor, 1900
-The Lone Sea Maid, 1900

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2020-01-28

2/3 But just like in Andersen tale I may become "Sea Foam" one day and turn to be a Sprite of Air...

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2020-01-28

The Little Mermaid, illustrated in 1911 by Edmund Dulac (1882-1953), French British naturalised illustrator.

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2020-01-28

Sam Henry -Irish folklorist believed were fallen angels. He wrote about a Dunluce mermaid with whom a Rathlin islander fell in love. The mermaid's tail was hidden and the couple married. But the mermaid discovered it and returned to the wild Atlantic

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2020-01-28

In Irish folklore the Selkie woman could only shed her skin once every 7 years to become human and dance under the moon. This limitation was held to be due to the fact that the Selkie housed a condemned soul or may have been a fallen angel


🎨Melissa Schaschwary

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2020-01-28

For "The Water of Life", a of the Brothers Grimm. Three princes go on a quest to search for the Water of Life to heal the dying king. As the youngest prince can fetch the water from a enchanted castle, his brothers betray him.

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2020-01-28

“Undine”, or Ondine, is a fairy-tale novella, written by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué in 1909, about a water spirit who marries a knight named Huldebrand in order to gain a soul.
(illustration by Arthur Rackham, 1909)

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2020-01-28