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Scandinavian Beauty and the Beast, this Norwegian folktale follows the journey of the youngest daughter of a peasant, who—for the sake of her poor but large family—agrees to leave everything she has ever known and accompany a White Bear to his mountain castle.

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2022-02-03

Combine & by reading a folktale to someone you love, pets included. We have loads you can borrow.

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2022-02-03

Vasilisa - inspired by the Russian folktale, and something about a woman's intuition 🧠💅❤️‍🔥

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2022-02-01

Nekomata is a ferocious Yōkai told in Japanese folktales when the largest cats with the longest tails reach an old age splitting their tails into two becoming demons that possess magical abilities like being able to control the dead and summon fireballs!

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2022-01-28

Concept art for my webcomic! I’m trying to figure out the vibes of the main setting, which is a sky kingdom based on some Chinese folktales!

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2022-01-27

In This weeks Time between Times video I tell the very creepy American folktale The Tailypo . Have a watch if you dare ?
https://t.co/XHyjCZ5tU6

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2022-01-25

Another character illustration of my oc, Enikő ^^ Based on a Hungarian folktale "Tancika Marcika". Her demon companion is Korom who becomes a spindle👹

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2022-01-24

A creepy American folktale for you this week . Deep in the heart of the Appalachian forest a hunter gets more than he bargained for in the sinister story of The Tailypo . Enjoy
https://t.co/XHyjCZ5tU6

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2022-01-23

Hello, Kay! Thanks for the opportunity to share!
I'm a children's book illustrator and designer. Here's a recent series I created for an Inuit folktale.

You can see more here: https://t.co/Gjvf8hIzLH
https://t.co/LLSU4NXqEm

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2022-01-22

Raised as an only child, Andersen saw in the "The Wild Swans" a fantasy of sibling solidarity that he could not realize in real life. The story was published in his Danish Folktales of 1823.

🎨 Anne yvonne Gilbert


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2022-01-19

Some Philippine folktales tell of people transforming into birds (usually rice birds) when not given enough food to eat. In some versions, it's a daughter whose mom doesn't feed her enough. In others, it's workers whose employer doesn't give them enough food.

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2022-01-19

A Russian folktale- The Fox and the Blackbird, illustrations by Valery Carrick, 1914. A fox tricks a blackbird, the blackbird eventually tricks the fox… 🦊 🐦

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2022-01-19


In “A Bird Steals Iyawo’s Baby” a Yoruba (Nigeria) folktale, Iyale, a greedy senior wife gets her comeuppance when she loses her baby to a magical bird. Iyawo, the younger wife makes out with bags of treasure and her healthy baby.

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2022-01-18

She is also said to have three blue birds that bring her food & in religious art these were also depicted as having 3 legs. In art there is evidence of the sun bird dating back to 5000BC. There is also the famous folktale of the archer Hou Yi & the ten ravens who flew from...
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2022-01-18

Some of my works for last years That was a week when I have started having fun with textures. which one is your favorite?

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2022-01-18

The books I got with ace rep and/or ace authors:

-We Were Restless Things by Cole Nagamatsu
-Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
-Xenocultivars (ft. queerplatonic Palestinian folktale by )
-My Lord by (book’s not ace but author is & it sounds cool!)

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2022-01-16

If you are interested in Japanese folktales, I have a little collection on my website, including tales of talking kettles, turtle ghosts and magical journeys under the sea.
https://t.co/hd64Qn1YUB

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2022-01-12

Perrault used images familiar to him, eg the Chateau Ussé for The Sleeping Beauty, & the Marquis of the Château d'Oiron as the Marquis de Carabas in Puss in Boots. He also ornamented his folktales with details, asides & subtext drawn from the world of fashion.

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2022-01-12

In the Sicilian folktale "Saint Oniria," two lost hunters take refuge in a cottage in the woods, where they find the heart of a dead saint. They take it with them to an inn. The innkeeper's daughter steals it, eats it, & gives birth to a reborn Saint Oniria.

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