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It’s the today, and for day 21 of our we have this characterful trio from the 1974 series, – this is the Scottish story,

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2019-12-21

The forest folk are busy building their winter nests. I hope you all keep cosy in your own winter nests this weekend! .
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2019-11-30

Gone Astray on Black Friday

From The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America by

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2019-11-30

Feeling smug and snug (and do we detect a Vermeer on our hands? you've done it again!)

From The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America

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2019-11-29

Me, a culinary artist
From The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America by

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2019-11-28

Recovered footage of Native Americans welcoming the Pilgrims
From The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America by the imminent

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2019-11-28

My name's Autumn and I love illustrating vibrant narrative driven pieces inspired by folktales

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2019-11-25

I’m doing again this year! I use this as a side project for worldbuilding. Seven more folktales and fables from the fictional world of my book, woot!

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2019-11-06

- Welsh Folktales: The Maiden of the Green Forest - https://t.co/peTfNDEb1C

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2019-11-05

Well, I didn’t find time to work on the others yet but here’s my Folktale Week, Day 1 piece: Home. Traditionally folktales are stories about humans buttt can also feature animals who are given human characteristics. This is a tidbit of a folktale I made up that gives reason …

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2019-11-05

Here’s my first piece for - No1 Home.
Thanks for last month’s workbook on folktales as preparation. The story I chose to focus on is the Scottish tale of the Hoodie-Crow

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2019-11-04

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Something I'd been working on in between projects for the past few days, based off of one of my favorite Tamil folktales where a village matriarch and midwife Periyachi/"Pechi" Amman disembowels a woman. (Will post the story w/ deets in replies later today.)

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2019-11-03

illustrations and mock book spreads for a short story i wrote, inspired by selkie folktales & gender roles as a societal institution that traps us all (did u know that gender gothic is a real genre)-- how spooky! maybe i'll share the full story sometime

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2019-11-01

- Japanese Folktales: The Dream of Akinosuke – Ants, Dreaming Humans and the Butterfly Soul - https://t.co/OV8AaiTVVJ

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2019-10-29

Japanese folktales have many stories of miraculous births. Two of the most famous are Momotaro (Peach Boy) who was discovered inside a giant peach floating on a river & Kaguya-hime who was found inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant.

Art: Hiroshige

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2019-09-30

Mysteries, folktales, history and adventure: Fall brings heaps of new books from Minnesota authors and publishers https://t.co/rJrVkx2jjq via

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2019-09-18