Charles Dodgson —a maths prof who had a bad stutter—loved logic, wordplay, & syllogisms. In 1865, he put some of his favourite logic riddles into the mouth of the Caterpillar in that famous book he wrote, as Lewis Carroll. 📚💫#FolkloreThursday
🎨Tenniel, Rackham, Carroll, Disney

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"It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable."


🖼️Unconquerable: illustration by from King Albert's Book depicting an heroic woman carrying forward the tattered flag of Belgium after invasion by the Germans in 1914.

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Commission for of their character Skye Rackham

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The perfect cloak for strolling through the forest 💗

Illustration Arthur Rackham
Linen Naive

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Arthur Rackham - "Alice au pays des merveilles"

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That's the end of another epic 🐿️

Today's theme has been Tree & Forest Lore! From wand materials to graveyard trees. A forest of lore!

This is signing off! Wishing everyone a lore filled week 🌞

🌳🦝🍃🍄🔥🍎🐍🍂🦉🏕️🐛🌲

Arthur Rackham 1920

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An undine is a water nymph who gains a soul when she marries a human, but will die if he is unfaithful to her. A version of this myth was a popular C19th novella, wherein Undine returns to the water & her kiss kills her unfaithful husband. Img: Rackham, 1909

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NYMPHOLEPSY: A word for fairy abduction taken from Classical culture. (Image: Arthur Rackham, 1933, for Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market')

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𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑀𝑖𝑠𝑠 𝑀𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑡
𝑆𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑡𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑡,
𝐸𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑠 & 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑦;
𝐴𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑎 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟,
𝑊ℎ𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟
𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑖𝑠𝑠 𝑀𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦.

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There's a lot of Disney's Robin Hood in Fables... or perhaps it's the other way round...


by Arthur Rackham

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"There were three ravens sat on a tree,
Downe a downe, hay downe, a downe,
They were as black as they might be."
"The Three Ravens" ballad

In a Scots ballad called "Twa Corbies", the Knight's luck is a little different 😈#FairyTaleTuesday

🖼️ "The Twa Corbies" by Arthur Rackham

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Loved reading these classics when I was a wee lad.
Incredible illustrations for 1912 edition of "Aesop's Fables" by legendary Arthur Rackham.

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Arthur Rackham|Illustrations
https://t.co/mZyXD9XNQh
“Rip Van Winkle”

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Over 500 versions of Cinderella have been found just in Europe alone! But, it's the French version by Charles Perrault that's the most popular, due to his fairy-godmother, pumpkin and glass slipper additions. J'adore this illustration by Arthur Rackham!

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Illustrations by Arthur Rackham for ‘Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens’ by JM Barrie. Published in by Hodder and Stoughton, 1912.

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"Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
'Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy:
Apples and quinces,
Lemons and oranges...'"
-Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"

🖼: A. Rackham

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