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In Cumbrian dialect, 'black-kites' is bramble

"to mouse in the bramble patch:
come, let us dine on autumn fayre"
~ SGR

the first crop of juicy black fruit belongs to the faeries (and mice)


art: Mary McAndrew

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2022-09-20

- The two brothers are in an endless "battle" of the year's seasonal cycles. During the Midsummer, the Oak King is mighty & the Holly King must accept his brother's dominance, He waits to regain power & dominance at the Autumn equinox.
https://t.co/bL9YWHsMvd

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2022-09-20


Pixies are perhaps the most famous of all fairies, they look like beautiful adults but are the height of children and have colorful wings. Pixies are insufferable pranksters, but are still mostly benevolent and usually protect humans more malignant fae.

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2022-09-20

🍂'We try to catch a dancing leaf, for every leaf caught is a 'happy day', but how elusive they are, these fluttering alive things, which slip through the fingers and evade pursuit!'
~Alison Uttley, A Year in the Country


Art by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

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2022-09-20

"I used to meet her in the garden, the ravine, and in the manor fields. She was always picking flowers and herbs, those she knew her father could use for healing drinks and potions."

- Hans Christian Andersen,
The Wind's Tale
🎨 by Edmund Dulac

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Know'st thou not at the fall of the leaf
How the soul feels like a dried sheaf
Bound up at length for harvesting,
And how death seems a comely thing
In Autumn at the fall of the leaf?
~D G Rossetti, Autumn Song
🖼 Evelyn De Morgan, The Cadence of Autumn.

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2022-09-20

The fry that jump across your toes, the sand hoppers you scarcely notice as you walk along the shore; the infinitesimals that come and go with the tides. Bounding rockpools, darting at the corners of your gaze. The fireflies of the sea.

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In Scotland, to see a robin outside your door in autumn, foretold an early or severe winter...

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2022-09-20

AUTUMN FAIRY RINGS are often a reminder of just how magical the fall is but upon entering an elf ring or sorcerer's circle of mushrooms you may become invisible and be made to dance until you die of exhaustion! 🎨W.H Sullivan painting

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2022-09-20

According to J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens", fall is the time when the little people weave their summer curtains from skeleton leaves.
Arthur Rackham beautifully illustrated this scene in what is probably one of his most inspired works.

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2022-09-20

Allison Gross is a Scottish folk ballad of an ugly witch who tries to seduce a man with gifts, including a silk shirt, pearls, & a golden cup. When he rejects her, she turns him into a wyrm. Then on Halloween, the Fairy Queen rides by & frees him from the spell.

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2022-09-20

In "The Butterfly" (1861) by Hans Christian Anderson, a butterfly seeks a flower for a wife. He courts several flowers through spring & summer, but can't decide which to marry. Come autumn, he's too old to marry, & the flowers have lost their fragrance.

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2022-09-20

“For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.”

to English artist
ARTHUR RACKHAM (1867-1939).
Self Portrait
Tree Fairies
Pandora
The Valiant Little Tailor

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2022-09-19

The that disturbed me the most was Bluebeard. Leaving his new wife alone, he tells her not to open a specific door. When she does, she finds bodies of old wives hanging on the walls! Not able to clean the blood from the key, she reveals her demise!

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2022-09-14

The ogres of Verde Prato by Giambattista Basile (Il Pentamerone).

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2022-09-14

This is Ukrainian edition of the Burmese fairytale "Cunning Snail" "Hitryi Ravlik" illustrated by Gennadiy Kuznetsov, Eugen Matveev, Michailo Shevchenko from 1978.

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