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🍀💚🍀Folklore says that if you carry a four leaf clover you will see Faeries.

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Deep in forest dark
Hidden secrets lark
Come cross a fairy ring
Magic beyond things unseen

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"The Magic Brocade" is a Chinese tale about a man who travels across lands of ice and fire to the fairy world to regain his mother's handiwork. (Source: Folk and Fairy Tales of Far-Off Lands by Eric & Nancy Protter)

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Flower fairies by Elsa Beskow (1874-1953)

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Watercolor faeries ✨#FairyTaleTuesday

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✨‘The Fairies: a scene drawn from William Shakespeare’
by Gustave Doré (1873)

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Ernst Bloch notes that fairy tales produce their own temporalities: “The fairy tale narrates a wish-fulfillment that is not bound by its own time & the apparel of its contents.” Case in point: Sleeping Beauty's kingdom sleeping for 100 years

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- Norse shamans (Seidr) had unusual powers and held the keys to one's destiny.
A Seidr was a servant of the spirits, and a mediator sitting between the worlds. They could hear voices of the spirits and see otherwordly beings. https://t.co/KUgH6xoTf4

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“The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax—
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings.”
Lewis Carroll

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'Sir Orfeo' is a narrative poem about king Orfeo & queen Heurodis.Heurodis goes to sleep under an orchard tree where she suddenly awakens. She explains she was visited in her dreams by the fairy king, who intends to take her to faery land https://t.co/3lHxIBK9xX

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"On Midsummer Eve, when the bonfires are lighted on every hill in honour of St. John, the fairies are at their gayest, and sometimes they steal away beautiful mortals to be their brides."
~ Fairy & Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888}

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Peri (or pari) are winged, fairy-like beings in Persian myth who live in the land of Paristan on Mount Qaf. Originally they were spirits denied entry to Paradise until they completed atonement. Under Islamic influence, they became more benevolent & mischievious.

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The fairy-goddess Maria Sinukuan was originally not female but male: Aring Sinukûan, god of war and death. But during the Spanish colonization, he was rebranded as female so people wouldn't worship him. Still, they did.

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FAIRY PORTAL🧚‍♂️
..in pathworking, you can enter the fairy realm, through well, sea, hill, cavern, rock opening, wooded glade. Watery places, symbolise the fluidic nature, of time and space, within the fairy realm..#fairytaleflash

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Today’s pairing of book with item in “From Book to Movie” Exhibit is: The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales from the Old French, retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, illust. by Dulac (1927) https://t.co/7iPzCiJjbP

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❤🌹🌹🌹The artistry of Kinuko Y. Craft , a Favorite of The Fairytale Club 🌹🌹🌹🦋🌺🦋🌻🌼🦋

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In my version of The Tinderbox, the princess has to rescue the soldier from prison. Here's a close up of that scene for

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Now, THIS is a love story.


by Erin Bluefooted

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Under enchantment, The Lady of Shalott cannot leave her weaving & sees the world through a mirror. As Lancelot passes, she falls in love, leaves the tower."The mirror crack'd from side to side, the curse is come upon me cried The Lady of Shallot"

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