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Warners & Lea and Loreto

Am I allowed to give these small kids some adoptive parents? You know what, I think I will :)

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2020-11-25

In Ojibwe lore, Memegwaans are tiny humanoids who are terrified of adults; vanishing if they see one. However, they human Helping any children who are upset, injured, scared, or lonely; protecting them until help arrives.

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2020-11-20

New Gods of the Fourth World

When Jack Kirby left Marvel for DC, he created New Gods as a direct sequel to Norse myths he adapted for Marvel's Thor

My article on connections btw Kirby's opus + myths that fascinated him:

https://t.co/Eem373orOm

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2020-11-20

Slavic tale "The Good Ferryman"
3 sons inherit a ferry boat, but when the youngest's kind heart is rewarded with magical gifts, his bros trick + rob him. He bounces back, then the king covets his beautiful wife
https://t.co/O1Gbh3RNV6

🎨 Cecile Walton c. 1920

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2020-11-20

Compelled to open the closet door, inside Ivan finds a weak old man bound in chains. The old man asks for water, which he gulps down, enabling him to break his chains and flee - revealing himself to be the wicked sorcerer, Koschei the Deathless.

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2020-11-20

A child born to the Trojan royal house before nightfall would bring ruin to the whole of Troy: but King Priam and Queen Hecuba could not kill their son. So Priam left the boy with a shepherd, who abandoned him. Suckled by a she-bear, the child Paris survived.

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2020-11-20

Prophesied to die at the hands of his grandson by his daughter, King Acrisius of Argos and locked his daughter away. Zeus impregnated her as golden light, so Acrisius made a choice: rather than kill his daughter and grandson Perseus, he cast them to the sea.

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2020-11-19

- Boys used to be clothed in dresses for ease in toilet training, but (it is said in certain circles) also to confuse spirits who might steal them away! Paining of Henry Gibbs by Freake-Gibbs - Boston 1670

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2020-11-19

John Duncan's critically acclaimed 1914 depiction of 'The Children of Lir', an episode in Irish Mythology in which a group of divine children are transformed into swans.

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2020-11-19

Water fairies found in ponds in the Netherlands, do not have wings. They can fly by being encased in bubbles and traveling on the winds. Main home is the River Elbe, as it is sacred to them. Small fairies, extremely light and sometimes shift into otters.

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2020-11-19

My trolls so far this week.

I love seeing a collection coming together, even if it's just a few...just a small start.

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2020-11-19

Scandinavian trolls were described as stupid and slow, and were rumored to keep bears as pets. Their simple lifestyle was one of peace unless they felt threatened, in which case they would respond with savage violence.

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2020-11-19

"Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."

William Butler Yates, The Stolen Child
🎨Adam Oehlers

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2020-11-19

In the fens a mother would never suckle her child during a thunderstorm as it was thought to taint her milk with brimstone and sulphur.

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2020-11-19

Changelings (or aufs/oafs) are creatures from religious folklore in Europe.

They were believed to be fairy children, that replaced human children to be cared for. This theme became popular to reflect on infants with disorders and disabilities.

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2020-11-19

Remembering Hilda Boswell (1903-1975) illustrator of The Treasury of Nursery Rhymes & other children’s books.

Working in watercolours, she brought rhymes to life, often wearing delightful period costumes.

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2020-11-19

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (1888-1960), was a Melbourne-born illustrator who created fairy images in Australian settings. Working at the same time as Arthur Rackham & Cicely Mary Barker, she raised the bar for in children’s publishing in her country.

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2020-11-19

Ben from The Bachelorette looks like Earthworm Jim

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2020-11-19

In Navajo lore, two important female figures are Changing Woman, who represents the changing seasons, & White Shell Woman. The former became pregnant by spreading her legs to the sun, the latter by lying in a stream & becoming the wife of water.

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2020-11-19