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“Men have forgotten this truth, said the fox. But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
- Antoine De Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince.

🎨Emily Winfield Martin.

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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!

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"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.

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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!

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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.

🖼: J. Hartmann

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Bakezōri are a type of tsukumogami. They look normal sandles with arms and feet and one eye. They like scaring people.

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It's and I've got a fractured fairytale for you, IT'S NOT THE THREE LITTLE PIGS by ,, the new addition to the series https://t.co/gbXuSRuynN

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“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

🎨 Amelia Jane Murray (1800-1896)

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'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.


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.

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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
🎨Errol le Cain

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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.

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“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)
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