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Sadhbh, Fionn mac Cumhaill's wife turned into doe for refusing druid's love! Told if she set foot in the fort of the Fianna he wouldn't have any power over her! Lived happily as human until Fionn away! Turned back to a doe, Fionn never found her again! #Ireland #FairyTaleTuesday
"Little Mangy One" is a Lebanese folktale about three goat brothers named Siksik, Mikmik, & Jureybon. The first two get devoured by a hyena, but Jureybon gores the hyena with his horns & cuts open his belly to free his brothers. #FairyTaleTuesday
Legendary warrior Fionn mac Cumhaill met sisters Aine & Milucra. MiIlucra was infatuated by Fionn but he loved Aine. Aine had disliked grey-haired men. So Milucra enchanted a lake to turn the hair of swimmers grey and lured Fionn to it. His hair turned white! #FairyTaleTuesday
Snakes for hair is more common than Medusa and her Gorgon sisters: Tadodaho of Iroquois lore had snakes from everywhere that sprouted hair, a sign of his wickedness. #FairyTaleTuesday
🖼: J. Hartmann
#FairyTaleTuesday Bakezōri are a type of tsukumogami. They look normal sandles with arms and feet and one eye. They like scaring people.
It's #FairyTaleTuesday and I've got a fractured fairytale for you, IT'S NOT THE THREE LITTLE PIGS by @joshfunkbooks @edwardiantaylor @AmazonPub,, the new addition to the #itsnotafairytale series https://t.co/gbXuSRuynN #Childrensbook #kidsbook #picturebook #readaloud #BookBoost
“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”
― Hans Christian Andersen
🎨 Amelia Jane Murray (1800-1896)
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Red hair stories for #FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash #flashfiction #Folklore 🧚🏻
🎨 Hilda Cowham
'The Twelve Dancing Princesses'
Illustrated by Errol Le Cain
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A 'hob-thross' lived in Millom Castle. He slept by the fire during the day, and worked all night, doing the chores the humans didn’t want to do. One harsh winter he was offered clothes, a terrible insult to a hob-thross, so he left.
#FairyTaleTuesday #Cumbria
art: Eric Edwards
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The stray sod is an odd walking plant that grows on the graves of unbaptized children. They wander around mindlessly and anyone who steps on them are cursed with a confusion that will make them lost unless they turn their clothes inside out.
In “The Twelve Dancing Princesses” or “The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes” the King locks his daughters into their bedroom each night but come morning their shoes are worn to bits. Whoever can solve this locked room mystery wins the kingdom & a princess #FairyTaleTuesday
🎨Errol le Cain
The Princess in the Suit of Leather, features a princess wearing a suit of leather that covers her from head to toe, in order to hide from her father who wishes to marry her.
#FairyTaleTuesday #Juleidah
🖼️ @meredith_draws @jasonporath
“Blow, blow, thou gentle wind, I say,
Blow Conrad’s little hat away,
And make him chase it here and there,
Until I have braided all my hair,
And bound it up again.”
'The Goose Girl' (Grimm)
Illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith
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In Irish folk tradition the long hair of the banshee is often cited. Older rural Irish women wore hair covered, unless when keening and mourning, when it would be loose, providing one explanation of why long strewn hair is so common for the death-messenger...
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If led astray by fairy folk, turn your clothing inside out to break the spell. This folklore is recorded in the National Folklore Collection, UCD, Ireland.
(Pic: 'Oberon, Titania and Puck', W. Blake, c. 1786) #FairyTaleTuesday
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According to the Norse sagas, humans and elves can interbreed and produce half-human, half-elfin children. These children often have the appearance of humans but possess extraordinary intuitive and magical powers.
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Idun/Iduna is the Norse Goddess of Spring and the keeper of the apples of immortality that the gods would eat to preserve their youthfulness. #FairyTaleTuesday
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🎨 Idun and the Apples by James Doyle Penrose (1890)
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The ash tree #Yggdrasil was the centre of the #Norse cosmos: a dragon, eagle & deer eat its roots & branches while a squirrel #Ratatoskr acts as messenger - mischievously stirring up trouble between the eagle #Veðrfölnir & the dragon #Nidhogg ....