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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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2022-09-14

A Romanian creation tale🌟

As God was weaving string and clay to form Earth, a chatty little mole asked to help. While God fell asleep, Mole kept letting out string until the Earth grew too large. Fearing that he ruined Earth, he hid underground. (1/2)

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2022-09-14

“In the Beginning all Wisdom was with the Animals”– Exploring Native American Myths.
Online talk TONIGHT by Rosalind Kerven. Featuring an ‘animal marriage’ myth from Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico, The Youth and his Eagle. Get your tickets!
https://t.co/G3aajAldnC

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2022-09-13

"A second snake crept out of the hole... with three green leaves in its mouth. Then it took the three pieces of the snake, laid them together, as they ought to go, and placed one of the leaves on each wound" (Grimm)

🎨 theartful-dodge

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2022-09-13

Cethlionn of the twisted teeth, once threw a javelin that mortally wounded the Dagda (still it took him 120 years to die!) The town of Enniskillen in Fermanagh is named after her. (Inis Cethlinn, ‘Cethlenn’s island’). A mighty woman of Irish mythology.

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2022-09-13


The Childten of Lir, is a haunting Irish tale. A king's jealous 2nd wife puts a spell on his children, changing them into swans for over 900 years,until such time as the Man from the North and the Woman from the South - two mountain peaks - are joined together.

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The Aláparo was an one-legged, one-eyed monster who used to kidnap girls and women to eat them. The neighbors from Salvadur (#Galicia), fed up with this situation, hunted and killed the creature, and buried him under an oak tree that still exists today.

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2022-09-13

My mother, she killed me,
My father, he ate me,
My sister Marlene,
Gathered all my bones,
Tied them in a silken scarf,
Laid them beneath the juniper tree,
Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird am I.

Brothers Grimm
The Juniper Tree and Other Tales



Warwick Goble

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2022-09-13


Aesop tells of a shepherd
boy who delights in scaring the villagers with his cries of “Wolf!”He fools them into coming to his assistance several times, until they tire of his prank. However when the wolf really does make an appearance, his cries are in vain.

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2022-09-13

Prince Fintan went out one morning to discover the harvest trodden on; destroyed by fairy horses who's come out of the lake! So, he captured one of the horses. Everything was fine until one day he disobeyed his mum & ran it in a race! He was never seen again! 🐎

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2022-09-13

In the Italian tale "Biancabella & the Snake," a marquis's wife falls asleep in her garden, & a snake slithers up inside her. She later gives birth to twins: a human girl named Biancabella & a snake named Samaritana wrapped around her sister's neck.

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2022-09-13


I think... I really like drawing comics... Too bad I like to out way to much detail into things...
(Not my original idea)
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Different Romances (Fairy Tail comic)

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2022-09-13

In the magic & fairy world of aristocratic portraiture, meet the Wild Knight in Armor.

🎨 Medieval Portrait

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2022-09-07

In a yuletide 'game' the mysterious wild Green Knight resurrects after being beheaded by Sir Gawain so Gawain must find him at the Green Chapel to take his turn...Arthurian tale of honour, courage and keeping your word (& stupidity) art: Issimm

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2022-09-07

Mabel Lucie Attwell, British (1869-1964)

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2022-09-07


Wuanita Smith, American (1866-1959)

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2022-09-07

Eddilig the Dwarf is mentioned in various Welsh lists of King Arthur's warriors. He is a shapeshifter, one of Arthur's three wizard-warriors (along with Menw and Tristan). It is unclear whether Eddilig's title means he was simply a short man or actually a fairy.

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2022-09-06

Sir Galahad is a knight of King Arthur's Round Table and one of the three achievers of the Holy Grail in Arthurian legend. He is also renowned for his gallantry and purity as the most perfect of all knights.

🎨George Frederick Watts, 1888

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2022-09-06