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a quick loretta (kilros' mom)
im.....still working on figuring out his dad's look

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2019-07-27

7. The Magic Servants
That’s ATU 513A, “The Extraordinary Companions”, exemplified here by the Grimms’ “The Six Servants” (but only 5 make it into this comic book)
Full text: https://t.co/8zwWPChomM
Full comic book: https://t.co/YbQCrhe1kO

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2019-07-25

6. The Salt Mountain (continuing the salt theme!🧂)
This was apparently collected by Arthur Ransome in Russia and retold/adapted in his Old Peter's Russian Tales (1916).
Full text: https://t.co/Aq5c9Qgl9j
Full comic book: https://t.co/lbwl3iHOql

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2019-07-25

5. The Pearl Princess
This is ATU 923, “Loving the Salt” or “The goose-girl at the well”
(again from the Brothers Grimm). There are elements of King Lear here. 🤴 🧂
Full text: https://t.co/NSUECqAo9o
Full comic book: https://t.co/cyga6Da3g5

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2019-07-25

4. The Golden Bird
This is ATU 550, “The Golden Bird”, again from the Brothers Grimm. The expressions of the fox are brilliant! 🦊
Full text: https://t.co/T1M8kobqtZ
Full comic book: https://t.co/45W2uEauGM

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2019-07-25

children’s & was born in on 28th July 1866. In her first & most famous story, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, (1901), our eponymous hero, after much drama, escapes the farmer & ending up sharing his father’s fate in a pie.

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2019-07-25

No self respecting mother in Liverpool will not have & serve her own version of ‘Scouse,’ without first warning her kids “this’ll put hairs on your chest!” Legend says the stew originates from the Norwegian sailors who arrived in the port in the 18th century.

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2019-07-25

drink when you hear:
-clarity
-clear
-closure

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2019-07-23

Oh lord I hope I'm not too late 😢

Loretta would look so perfect in that getup though XD

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2019-07-23

Was going to this but realised it’s Friday. I don’t know where the time goes, I really don’t.

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2019-07-20

An attack for Loretecks on Artfight! Their WoW OC and mine fighting back to back <3

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2019-07-20

THE SAINT. Liban was caught in the net of Fergus of Miliuc. Clerics gave her a choice, to be baptized and go to heaven within an hour, or to wait 300 years on earth. She chose to die, miracles were wrought through her & she became St. Muirgen of Donegal

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2019-07-19

THREAD: “A truvatura”, meaning “the finding” is an ancestral Sicilian legend that talks about hidden enchanted treasures, protected by supernatural beings such as demons, pixies, gnomes, dragons or simply an immortal young woman 1/....

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2019-07-19

What’s Mjollnir’s one flaw?

The handle is too short. (Loki turned into a gadfly & stung the blacksmith in the eye while it was being forged.)

Loki got his mouth sewn shut for it.
So... even?

📷Ellysiumn

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2019-07-18

A trow is a fairy/troll associated with Orkney & The Shetland islands. Trows would kidnap musicians due their love of music. When the musician reappeared they’d often find years not hours had passed since they disappeared.

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2019-07-18

According to Cornish legend, St Michaels Mt in Cornwall was built by the giant Cormoran. A local boy dug a trench into the side of the island & blew his horn so loud Cormoran woke and rolled down the hill. The boy would earn the name "Jack the Giant Killer."

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2019-07-18

Ghille Dhu is a Scottish wood-dwelling fairy with dark hair, clothed with leaves and moss. He is said to have been rather wild looking, but he was also considered to be kind and gentle- especially to children.

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2019-07-18

"The fairies from the enchanted islands regularly attended markets at Milford Haven and Laugharne. They made their purchases without speaking, laid down their money and departed. Sometimes they were invisible, but were often seen."
British Goblins, 1880

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2019-07-18

THE SHADOWY WATERS, 1904. Folklorist & poet W. B. Yeats, wrote of an island of women who cast no shadows & manifest as woman-headed birds, discovered by a ghost ship of undead sailors near the world's end. Yeats read about vampires during his occult phase

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2019-07-18