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These are a few of my favorite queens❄️

Vladislav Erko, Rudolf Koivu,
Artur Scheiner, Errol Le Cain

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"The Snowman" by Hans Christian Anderson is about a snowman falling in love with a wood-burning stove. He spends his days gazing longingly into the window of the house where the stove is. His only friend, a dog, warns him that he'll melt if he goes inside.

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The winter season has been associated with numerous deities - Greek god of winter, Boreas; Norse god, Ullr; Celtic goddesses Cailleach & Beira. Over time, the old gods and goddesses of winter transformed into Old Man Winter/ Jack Frost.


art: Baklaher

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"Snow-White and Rose-Red" are a charming and refreshingly happy pair of siblings from the Brothers Grimm:

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Then joining hands to little hands
Would bid them cling together,
“For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather…”

~ The Goblin Market, Christina Rossetti

🎨 Victoriasmoon


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Morgan le Fay, King Arthur's sibling, is a seductress & enchantress. Morgan is an enemy of Arthur's, but reconciles with him at his death, helping conduct him to the Isle of Avalon. There, some say, she reigns with him as queen.

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Dog-headed Xolotl is the Aztec god of twins, and himself a twin born of the virgin Chīmalmā. The dark side of the evening star and of heavenly fire, his twin Quetzalcoatl far outshone him: and for that he would pay.

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The Pandavas are five warrior brothers who toil together in thr Mahabhatara, fighting an extended war against their cousins that, while they won, came at great personal cost: but they stayed true to each other.

🖼: Y. Yoshitani

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Beautiful illustrations by Beatriz Martín Vidal (b.1973, Spain) for “Hansel and Gretel”, a brother & sister abandoned in the woods who come across a delicious gingerbread house inhabited by a hungry witch. They must outwit her to survive...

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🌿👑🌿Aslan chose siblings from our world - Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy - to rule as kings and queens of Narnia, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis.

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Worm (or wyrm) dragons are the most wicked and devious dragons in Europe; they are serpents with four legs who grow big enough to coil around hills, they breathe out either fire or poison.
The most famous worm is probably the dragon from Beowulf.

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A tale about a swamp witch with a demon goat? Yes, please.


by Asya Yordanova

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Misplaced, “The Ugly Duckling” wandered thru his youth alone, bullied by all he encountered for his “ugly” appearance until, upon transforming from his youthful appearance, he is adopted by a flock of swans. After all, he wasn’t a duck, but was himself a swan.

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Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit and his sisters, Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail.

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Snow White and Rose Red is one of the folk tales collected and adapted by the Bothers Grimm. It is the story of two sisters, one fair and one dark, who live with their widowed mother.
🎨Kerry Darlington.

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Brigit/Brigid/Bríg "exalted one" are 3 Irish goddesses! 9th C Cormac's Glossary written by monks, says Brigid was "the goddess whom poets adored" & that she had 2 Brigid the healer & Brigid the smith. Some say they were syncretised with St Brigid! 🎨?

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'My long and bubbling friend,' said the Djinn [of All Deserts], 'what's this I hear of your doing no work?'

Illustration for How the Camel got his Hump; Kipling's Just So Stories, Folio Society, 2013. Watercolour.

For today's theme of Mountains & Deserts.

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Lena dances with the knight

W.E. Björk / Among gnomes and trolls

Illustration by John Bauer, 1915

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