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"The Twa Corbies" (or The Two Ravens) illustrated by Arthur Rackham to "Some British Ballads" (1919) who plan to dine on the body of a new-slain knight.

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At night in Shikoku, wander through the bamboo groves and eventually you might find Japan's fire-breathing poultry, the Basan. The fire gives no heat, and they gain it by eating the charcoal found in nearby villages: but they can disappear too.

🖼: jhfrench

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🎨 Dorothy P. Lathrop
📖 A Little Boy Lost

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The thunderbird is a legendary creature in Native American history and culture. It is considered a supernatural being of power and strength.

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In “A Bird Steals Iyawo’s Baby” a Yoruba (Nigeria) folktale, Iyale, a greedy senior wife gets her comeuppance when she loses her baby to a magical bird. Iyawo, the younger wife makes out with bags of treasure and her healthy baby.

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Some of Arthur Rackham’s enchanted, fairy-tale birds, drawn in his distinctive & beautiful style, for your day 🐦📚✨

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“The poor little duckling did not know where to turn. How he grieved over his own ugliness, and how sad he was! The poor creature was mocked and laughed at by the whole henyard.”

-The ugly duckling

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Hans Christian Andersen was a slightly awkward looking guy who was born into poverty. So when he wrote The Ugly Duckling (1843) he knew how to make his readers love that tiny, sad duckling who grows to see his own self-worth. I’ll always love this moving tale 🦢#FairyTaleTuesday

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The roc is an enormous legendary bird of prey in the popular mythology of the Middle East.

The roc appears in Arab geographies and natural history, popularized in Arabian fairy tales and sailors' folklore.

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Thus spoke Raven,
“I know the fish in the dreams of the chief's daughter.
She dreams of salmon that live far away.
The Haida are my friends.
I will fly far, I will fly swift
I will bring the Haida, salmon!”

https://t.co/sg3G3SV79R

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With help of Thiazzi, the eagle in disguise, Loki kidnapped Idun, the guardian of juvenile apples that bring back youth to the Aesir gods.
It was a disaster because without her apples the gods became old and powerless.
More: https://t.co/QxKLr0F3yq

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THE WILD SWANS Fairy tale by Hans Andersen,1838. An evil queen turns her eleven stepsons into swans and forces them to fly away, they're only allowed to become human again by night. A possible influence on Swan Lake 🎨Anadezhda Illarionova

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British folklore regards owls as harbingers of doom. A screeching owl flying past the window of a sick person foretells their death. However, in Greek myth the owl symbolises Athena who keeps one on her shoulder, endowing her with knowledge & insight.

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Oh yeah this was my initial ref! Plumes whole thing is fairytale romance so I wanted to do something based on Cinderella and Prince Charming ❤️

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Una Npc de Nostales que hiceee
SABRINA SIAMI <3
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I think you're taking this fairytale theme too literally, Lythena. Haha! "Huh? I thought, I'd understood the assignment!" She exclaimed.

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✨I gave my dumb fairytale OCs a working title!! ✨
I'm hoping to turn them into a comic someday, so I drew this fake little comic cover I can look at and dream instead of actually writing a plot😊

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