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In a Tswana (Namibia) folktale, when Ekishi the Monster kills her parents and eats Nehova, her only hope is her brother Nankelo. He hunts Ekishi down, kills it and cuts Nehova out of its big toe.

🎨: Libby Costandius

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The tale of the Pied Piper is said to have grown out of an event in summer 1284, when 130 children were lured away from the German town of Hamelin.... https://t.co/7hQSPNXSgH


1. by Margaret Evans Price
2. by Quentin Blake

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🌹🌹🌹Beautiful Artwork by: Jenna Paddey; Beauty and the Beast 🌹🌹🌹Another Favorite.

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CHILDREN in
with HANSEL & GRETEL
Which tempting gingerbread house would you pick to eat from?
🎨Curt Liebich
🎨Karl Feiertag

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CHILDREN in
w/Jack and the Beanstalk

🎨Warwick Goble
🎨Elizabeth Colborne

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Rapunzel is named for the vegetable growing in the Witch's garden which her mother so covets. These Gordon Laite illustrations show the witch as a pipe-smoking, red-eyed fiend with her cat familiar, and even show the radish roots of the rapunzel

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Take a look at one of the wonderful pieces of original featuring in SIDEWORLD: TERRORS OF THE SEA. This is the eerie tale of the Wildman of Orford by Todor Popov

RENT on .

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Fearing capture
Lina turned to Fundevogel and said, “I will never leave you if you will never leave me!” Fundevogel replied, “I will never leave you!”
Lina said, “Become a rose tree, and I will become the rose upon it!”
https://t.co/3oMgpbtg5t

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The klabautermann is a jolly water dwarf from the Baltic Sea. They are incredibly kind and friendly, helping out around the ship and saving anyone who falls overboard. They are also masters of sea shanties.

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📚📚📚 Timeless Stories- Classic Illustrations 🦋🌼🌷⚘️🏵🦋

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Illustrations by Dorothy Lanthrop
for A Little Boy Lost

Link to book:
https://t.co/cmdVEn405Z

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Lisbeth Zwerger specialises in fairy tale illustrations, her style inspired by Golden Age illustrators, particularly Arthur Rackham as her lovely use of colour and movement attest.

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The adventures of Hans Christian Andersen's "Thumbelina" as illustrated by Austrian artist Lisbeth Zwerger (b. 1954).

(1/2)

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"Oh, little did the Wolf-Child care
When first he planned his home
What City should arise and bear
The weight and state of Rome"
Rudyard Kipling
Remus and Romulus
Art by Peter Paul Rubens

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In a Flemish tale a man steals a hat. The hat shapeshifted into a screaming, grinning skull. He was advised to bring the skull back with a newborn. A woman appeared and said that if it wasn't for the child she would have broken his neck and flown him to hell.

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The Scottish folktale heroine Molly Whuppie is the youngest of three sisters taken hostage by a giant. She tricks the giant into killing his own daughters instead of her & her sisters. After they escape, she returns to steal a sword, a purse, & a ring.

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A Blossom of Fairy Folk for the Fairytale Club..🦋🌼🌷🌿💐🦋🌺🌻

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In anthills and on mountain tops,
Underwater, underground!
In forests, caves, up in the sky:
That’s where our spirits can be found!
Up and down and all around,
That’s where our spirits can be found!

🎨: Mino Yasue

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In Ireland, the Fairy Market was sometimes called The Fair of the Dead and held at Samhain. At times the dead held the market, at other times, the fairies, and they were often confused as one and the same...

🎨Josh Honeyman

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