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There had been helper Fates in old lore, but it’s Perrault who gave us the first “fairy godmother” in his 17th-cen Cinderella. Perrault’s sense of French beauty, magic, & sparkle, also gave us the glass slipper. A magical man. 💫

🎨Rackham, Doré, Sterrett

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2021-05-18

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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2021-04-29

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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2021-04-13

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

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2021-04-08

The Goblin Market, a poem by Christina Rossetti, 1862. Two sisters: one is tempted by the fruit at the goblin market & almost wastes away. The other saves her sibling in body & soul by resisting the goblins with their fruit, at all costs. Img: A. Rackham, 1933

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2021-03-18

Arthur Rackham, « Les Voyages de Gulliver », Swift, 1909 pour les couleurs

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2021-03-14

“Be thou here again
Ere the leviathan can swim a league.”
Oberon, Act 2, Sc 1, AMND
Img: Arthur Rackham, 1908, detail.

A leviathan is a sea monster, originally referred to in the Hebrew bible. In Rackham’s time it was thought of as a dragon/crocodile hybrid.

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2021-03-04

Arthur pulling the sword from the stone & Lancelot slaying a fire-breathing dragon. From the Romance of King Arthur, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1917

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2021-02-16

"There came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton... It was the beating of the old man's heart." Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Arthur Rackham, 1935.

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2021-02-03

“We must not look at goblin men,
We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots?”
― Christina Rossetti, who wrote The Goblin Market, was born in 1830
(art by Arthur Rackham, Kinuko Craft, Pauline Baynes, & Hilda Koe)

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2020-12-06

Cinderella in silhouette, by Arthur Rackham, 1919, for an edition of the story retold by folklorist CS Evans.

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2020-11-17

Valkyries, once considered sinister spirits in mythology, chose which slain warriors were admitted to Valhalla, to live with Odin. Depicted here as fearsome, beautiful shield maidens.

🎨Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane
E R Hughes, José Luis Munoz Luque

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2020-11-03

"The Twa Corbies (The Two Ravens)". ca. 1919. English. Arthur Rackham, illustrator (1867-1939). via https://t.co/RGu7W8H3R4.

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2020-10-08

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, Arthur Rackham, Bernie Wrightson, Harry Clarke

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2020-10-04

to Arthur Rackham, born this day in (1867-1939).
“For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.”

Self Portrait
Tree Fairies
Pandora
The Valiant Little Tailor

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2020-09-19

today i offer you my TWST OC, eton rackham, and his dorm, battenbrine. tomorrow? idk probably nothing.

[#TwistedWonderlandOC

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2020-08-17

Warrior Women for
w/VALKYRIES in
🎨"Brünnhilde" Arthur Rackham, 1910
🎨"Valkyrien" Peter Nicolai Arbo, 1864

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2020-07-28

Rainbow Goddess Iris, by Arthur Rackham, 1921.

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2020-07-28