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Step into the fairy tale and discover Adam Oehlers' beautiful solo exhibition, "The Fabled" on view at through Oct 17th!

"Rider"
Watercolor, pen and pencil on 250gsm paper

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Sometimes portals in fairy-tale novels & art take all forms: from Narnia’a wardrobe, to a knot in a tree, to Masefield’s box of delights, to Carroll’s Alice & those tiny doors. Often, the doorways were the most magical part. 💫
🎨Disney, Schmidt, BBC, & Tenniel

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Mists are often a portal to otherworlds. In Gaelic regions of the Celtic world, mists not only act as a portal to Tir na nOg (and places in folklore like Hy-Brasil), but also protect places like Ireland and the Isle of Man from attack.

🖼: S. Reid

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1921 faerie encounter:
"They seem to be bearing something which they give to the grass or the flowers at each stopping place, putting out their hand to touch the place where they come to rest, as if applying some substance, then they move swiftly away again"

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Thinkin bout fairytales lately 😔I love it when theres a ton of home brewed lore

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Iris is the messenger of the gods, moving between Olympus, Earth, and even Hades. Bringer of rainbows, she can ferry people as well as bring messages, making her an otherworldly courier service in Greek myth.

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Even after all these years since I first read Through the Looking-Glass and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, I can’t pass a mirror or painting of the ocean without a magical flutter of hope. ✨

🎨John Tenniel
🎨Pauline Baynes

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Does a mirror reflect our world back to us or show us somewhere else? Alice discovers that a looking-glass is a portal to a fantastical place in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice Found There
🎨 Evgenija Chistotina https://t.co/tXcSOolYiy

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'Tatterhood' the Norwegian about the Princesses born of magic. Where one was considered beautiful & the other ugly. When trolls attack the palace, the pretty one gets her head snatched off! To save her sister, Tatterhood must find the troll island.

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Psychopomps are often a specific type of Otherworldly messenger, as they guide the dead to their destination. Almost all cosmologies have them: famously, Hermes, Baron Samedi and Maman Brigitte, the Norse Valkyries, ravens across the world, and countless more.

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These remind me of the illustrations for 'The Elves and the Shoemaker' (Ladybird, 1965) done by Robert Lumley. I was in love with this edition when I was little. https://t.co/68BwMmIRut

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An oldie for this
Raven bringing news to a nymph

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The noble moose Skutt ferries the Princess Tuvstarr through the Swedish fairytale forest full of elves and witches till eventually Tuvstarr loses all of her clothes and turns into a plant. 🖼 John Bauer

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Alice in Wonderland is a trippy fantastical story of 7 year old Alice, who finds herself in the now iconic world of Wonderland. There she meets all sorts of peculiar people and creatures, from the Mad Hatter to the Cheshire Cat.

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In Jizo is
a guide & protector of the souls of children, especially those who have died. Parents whose children die before them often pray to the god Jizo & ask him to protect their lost children as it is believed that their souls can't...

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In Greek mythology the goddess Iris is the personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods.

🖼Arthur Rackham

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Irish goddess The Morrígan associated with war/death. Often appears as a crow (badb)/#raven. Incites warriors to battle. When Cú Chulainn died (strapped to a standing stone), only when a crow landed on him was Lugaid, his enemy, convinced he was dead.

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In folklore & legend crows & ravens are often regarded as harbingers of doom, but they can also be the means of divination & prophecy bearing messages from the gods. The Celtic goddess Morrigan often appears in the form of a crow or raven.
🎨Jessica Galbreth

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PORTALS
.. in pathworking, you can enter the fairy realm, through well, hill, the sea, cavern, an opening in a rock, or a wooded glade. Watery places symbolise the fluidic nature of time and space within the faery realm

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