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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Illustrations by Warwick Goble for 'The Book of Fairy Poetry' [Fairy poems, songs and lore, collected by Dora Owen, 1920]

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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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Commensurate
Crowd

Magic Spells
Curses
Enchantments
Eyelashes
Water/Aquaphobia
Fundi
Candy
Yearning
Rant
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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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Venus-ruled mallow is used in love potions. Combine a mallow root with a rose quartz, 9 rose petals, & 2 ash juniper berries, & anoint with rose water to attract love. Conversely, a salve made from mallow leaves & rosemary oil can protect against black magic.

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"A Calabash of Poi" tells of a goddess, Pele, visiting a rich and poor family while disguised. She curses the former and blesses the latter. (Source: In the Path of the Trade Winds: Legends of Hawaii by Cora Wells Thorpe).

Art by Mark Fredrickson, (2020)

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An enchantment & a curse: In “Diamonds and Toads” a fairy rewards one sister for her kindness; flowers & gems fall from her mouth as she speaks. But her unkind sister is cursed for her rudeness; she spews toads & vipers when she talks
🎨 Gordon Laite (1925-1978)

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