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The Greek muses were the quintessential embodiment of arts, from music to poetry and creativity, often depicted in vivid colours. Here is a painting entitled "The Muses Melpomene, Erato, and Polyhymnia" by Eustache Le Sueur.

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2020-02-20

We picked 4 colourful illustrations from our favourite tales for this week's > Jessie Willcox Smith 'Heidi', Dugald Stewart Walker 'The Nightingale', Virginia Frances Sterrett 'The Wild Boar', Harry Clarke 'The Garden of Paradise.' https://t.co/zBADHbInou ✨🌈

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2020-02-20

BLUE FAIRY Kindly saviour of wayward puppet Pinocchio 1883; human-sized, not diminutive, she has a mysterious history, appearing first as a spectre child with blue hair; re-imagined under water in A.I. (2001) below, an uncanny vision of discarded robot boy David

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2020-02-20

First preview of my new map about legends & ghosts connected with the Brontes & Haworth moors. Ive also tried to convey the energy & feel of the landscape, hills & valleys. It is accurate for use as a map but only uses places that have existed for over 200 years

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2020-02-20

In the Language of Flowers, Acanthus was said to represent art or artfulness in a bouquet.

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2020-02-20

Red - the witch hue

Old Mother Redcap. Archetypal English folk witch, with a long history & many homes. Jacobean Londoners told tales of her. So did folks in 1800s Derbyshire. Pubs were named after her in Sheffield & Luton, til lately. Blackburn still has one.

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2020-02-20

Sticker da Loretinha 😍

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2020-02-19

Hey! Happy Valentine’s Day!

Loretta has no hubby but enjoys her own company. She still believes this is the day of giving and wearing pink/red with no association of romantic love.

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2020-02-15

Tam Lin, Scottish tale of bravery by a lady who encounters a mysterious man in a forest. She finds herself pregnant with his child, and learns he is captive to the faeries. She manages to find and rescues him, angering the Faerie Queen.



📷~shadowscapes

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2020-02-14

When May Eve (Walpurgisnacht) came around, a would-be suitor might leave a garland of flowers or flower crown on the door knob of his love interest. If she wore it the next day, he would know he should approach her and reveal his identity.

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The Princess of the Brazen Mountain is a Polish fairy tale about a prince who falls madly in love with a winged woman. https://t.co/46aEjlQuf7

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Wearing symbolic love rings on the third finger of the left hand can be traced back to the ancient Egyptians, who believed that a vein, or channel, of love ran from the heart to that particular finger

by John Bauer

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2020-02-14

Tristan and Iseult, a tragic tale of romance that has had a significant influence on Western art and literature. Paintings by Herbert James Draper(Left), Hughes Merle (R up), John Duncan (R lower)

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2020-02-13

"Romeo and Juliet" borrows from the story of "Pyramus and Thisbe" from Ovid's Metamorphoses, and "The Ephesiaca of Xenophon and Ephesus", right down to the parental rivalry, the belief that one of the lovers is dead, and the use of a sleep potion

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2020-02-13

In Pakistani folklore, love stories follow different pathways, but almost all arrive at a similar ending – the perishing of lovers while fighting for each other. (Image: Public Domain)

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According to Brazilian lore, the shape-shifting Boto always wears a hat to disguise his breathing hole, while human. Transforming from a pink dolphin at day, to a incubus at night! After impregnating women, the Boto abandons them & never returns.

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The hair from the belly of a goat, tied into knots and concealed in the roof of your beloved will ensure 'furious love' according to the 1892 Book of Charms and Ceremonies.

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