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HANS ANDERSEN, The Nightingale, ills Edmund Dulac, 1911. The little nightingale's song is so vibrant & magical it banishes the demon death when it threatens to take the emperor; 'Even death himself listened to the song and said 'go on little Nightingale, go on!'

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The Phoenix of ancient Greece is common to many cultures - the Egyptian bennu, Russian firebird, Chinese Fèng Huáng, the Native American Thunderbird.

Always it is a symbol of creative destruction, descending into fire and rising renewed from its own ashes.

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In the of Puss n Boots, a youngest son inherits only a cat, but such a clever cat it was...defeating an ogre and winning a noble title for its young human.


https://t.co/uPjwahOEIx
Art: Eduardo Teixeira Coehlo

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Gustaf Tenggren did a great job with Scandinavian gnomes and trolls before going on to Hollywood for early animated Disney fairytales https://t.co/CcdLgTgQcR

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The swallow who got left behind. Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince, lovesick swallow doesn’t migrate to Egypt as winter draws in &helps Happy Prince distribute gold &jewels to the poor, cold and hungry of the city. He stays too long, dying of cold at Prince’s feet.

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Fenrir is a monstrous wolf in Norse mythology. Fenrir is attested in the 'Poetic Edda'. Fenrir is the father of the wolves Sköll and Hati Hróðvitnisson, is a son of Loki, and is foretold to kill the god Odin, but will in turn be killed by Odin's son Víðarr.

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Grimms' "The White Snake" A serf steals a morsel from the King's secret platter and is blessed with a special gift. On seeking hs fortune he gets a pitches to win the hand of a princess; succeed-or-perish.... https://t.co/1jzrk76Cy5
Rie Cramer

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Sleeping Beauty is a classic about a princess cursed to sleep for 100 yrs by an evil fairy, & is awakened by a handsome prince's kiss. 😘 The earliest known version is found in Perceforest, composed around 1330. by

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THE MERMAID'S TEARS Retelling of Andersen's Little Mermaid by Kurahashi Yumiko 倉橋 由美子. The mermaid is interspecies with the body of a fish & long legs, influenced by Magritte (1943) & mirroring the hybridity of the Ningyo Yōkai (image Hsu) in reverse

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The theme is Sleeping Beauty! We discussed the story's origins & the Disney adaptation on the podcast this summer: https://t.co/IwkgVXAWqh

🎨: Edward Burne-Jones

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“This is the thing about fairy tales: You have to live through them, before you get to happily ever after. That ever after has to be earned, and not everyone makes it that far.” - (from "Roses and Rot")
Art by Lisbeth Zwerger.

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"There's always a woman somewhere, child; a princess, a witch, a stepmother, a mermaid, a fairy godmother, or one as wicked as she is beautiful, or as beautiful as she is good."
~Jeanette Winterson


1. Alice Helena Watson
2. Willy Pogany

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Eye candy book illustrations featuring Sleeping Beauty:

Edward Frederick Brewtnall, 1880
Edmund Dulac, 1909
Arthur Rackham, 1920
Kinuko Y. Craft, 1984

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For --- distaffs/spinning wheels can be found in folklore across the world. They have been imbued with many different cultural meanings & often symbolise/problematise power within the domestic sphere:

'Dornröschen / Sleeping Beauty' (1943) dir. Ferdinand Diehl.

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"One moonlight night, the fairies came flying in at the window and brought her such a pretty pair of wings that she could not help putting them on."

'The Water Babies', by Charles Kingsley. ca 1922.
(1st pub. ca 1863)

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"The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ..."

~ Bruno Bettelheim

by Anne Anderson (1874-1952, Scottish)

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