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are busy finalising the programme for our Gothic Fairies conference in April. Fairies encircle a tomb at night in E.T. Parris, 1832. The white floating figure of a fairy ballerina in productions of 'Giselle' & 'Ondine' is here transposed

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NOCTURNAL FAE Moonlight Fairies use an OWL CHARIOT for transport & the crescent moon, inspired by William Allingham (1824 - 1889); OWL-RIDING Night-time Fae occur in Amelia Jane Murray (1800-1896)

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Czech artist Maxmilián Pirner was born 1853. Much of his work focused on themes from classical mythology, and he apparently had quite an interest in all things strange and macabre.

The Fairy Funeral
Hekate
The End of All Things (detail)
Death

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TITANIA iconic images of Vivien Leigh as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Old Vic Theatre, 1937 directed by Tyrone Guthrie & set to Mendelssohn. I don't think there will ever be a more wonderful evocation of or She was born to play the fae!

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"Pouring moonlight on night creatures"
by Asako Eguchi (b. 1952, Japan)

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FAIRY FOOD Never partake in food transformed by fairy glamour. In Robert Herrick 1591–1674, fairies darkly feast on beards of mice, withered cherries, a mandrake's ears, a mole's eyes, a slain stag’s tears & the broken heart of a nightingale🎨Fitzgerald 1859

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MOONLIGHT FAE Nocturnal Fairies & crescent moon inspired by William Allingham (1824 - 1889); Owl-Riding Night-time Fae, Amelia Jane Murray, 1800-1896

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TITANIA iconic images of Vivien Leigh as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Old Vic Theatre, 1937. The production, directed by Tyrone Guthrie, was set to Mendelssohn's incidental music

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THE VISIT AT MOONLIGHT Fairies encircle a tomb at night in E.T. Parris, 1832. The connection between gothic, & painting is made clear; the white floating figure of a fairy ballerina in productions of 'Giselle' & 'Ondine' is here transposed

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Nicneven is a Queen of the Fairies in Scottish folklore. In Ireland and Scotland, "the Feile na Marbh", (the “festival of the dead”) took place on Samhain. The name Nicneven was used among others to identify the Scottish Witch Goddess of Samhain.

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I love the idea of it fits theme so well. May the fairies of Halloween bring you every wish!! Day 10

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Hashtags to follow if you want a bit more magic in your life:



Also, check out these profiles for current hashtags:
(#GothicFairies)
(#FiendsAndGhouls)
Very happy to hear of anything I've missed.#ff

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Happy Carnival Row and The Dark Crystal Day!

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2019-08-31

FAIRIES & THE DEAD Evans Wentz (1911) recorded the Highland belief in hosts as the evil dead & Cornish Peskies as the souls of unbaptised babies, appearing at Twilight in the form of moths Images: Pirner 1888; Highgate; white plume moth

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Looking forward to some Dark Crystal Fairy Fantasy on Netflix 30th August!

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FUSELI'S PUCK (c.1790) has bat wings rather than butterfly wings; his enchantments are far from innocent. The other fairies flee in this image where he is full of movement. He boasts he can 'put a girdle round the earth in forty minutes' (MSND)

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2019-07-23

FAIRIES AS FALLEN ANGELS
'All the Irish believe that are the fallen angels who were cast down by the Lord God out of heaven for their sinful pride. Some fell into the sea, and some on dry land & the devil gives these knowledge & power ' Lady Wilde, 1887.

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J.A.FITZGERALD'S DREAM PAINTINGS depict humans plagued by hideous fairyland creatures; thought to represent the effects of opium. 1. The artist has fallen asleep, on his easel is a painting of a fairy, the model looks on at him 1857. 2. 1858 3. Pipe Dreams 1870

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2019-06-23

Happy Midsummer from ! Dr Johnson, in his Preface to Shakespeare (1765), talks of ‘the loves of Theseus and Hippolyta combined with the Gothic mythology of fairies’, so here's some Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing by William Blake, c. 1786

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THE VISIT AT MOONLIGHT. Fairies encircle a tomb at night in E.T. Parris, 1832. The connection between romantic ballet & fairy painting is made clear; the white floating figure of a fairy ballerina in productions of 'Giselle' & 'Ondine' is transposed in this image

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