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"... the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs” (O. Wilde)

Poisonous they are, though, and a symbol of dark beauty

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I have a fairy by my side
Which says I must not sleep,
When once in pain I loudly cried
It said "You must not weep"
If, full of mirth, I smile and grin,
It says "You must not laugh"

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2022-03-23

FAIRIES RIDE WHITE RABBITS
Landseer's Titania and Bottom from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', painted in 1847. You will see a diminutive Puck & fairy-riding white rabbits, an enchanting Fairy Transport image for with Easter approaching

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2022-03-20

“But when he brushes up against a screen,
We are afraid of what our eyes have seen:
For something is amiss or out of place
When mice with wings can wear a human face.”
(from “The Bat” by Theodore Roethke)

🎨 Kate O’Hara https://t.co/iWSiCxwwEM

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2021-08-28

ANGUS A gothic fairy from Irish Folklore whose kisses would turn into birds; Kathryn Wallace, Folk-lore of Ireland, Legends, Myths. Fairy-Tales,1910 🎨Caroline Jamhour; Assorted Irish fairy books

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2021-05-24

Louisiana folklore: an owl cry brings bad luck unless you call back to it or remove an item of clothing & put it back on inside out. If an owl cry wakes you, get out of bed and turn your left shoe upsidedown
🎨 Lily Seika Jones https://t.co/3MYvpsr3xJ

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2021-05-17

"Why, the question is often asked of me
Do you choose as subjects for painting
So often death, perishing and the grave?
In order to one day live eternally
One must often submit oneself to death"

Caspar David Friedrich died 1840

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2021-05-07

DAISIES The habit of dressing children in daisy chains and coronels comes from a desire to protect them against malevolent FAIRIES. Daisies are a sun symbol and therefore protective magic🎨Rackham

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2021-05-05

"No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all." (Camus)

Some of Theodor Kittelsen's (#BOTD 1857) haunting illustrations of Svartedauen (Black Death), featuring Pesta, the personified plague.

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2021-04-28

Papageno from “The Magic Flute” and Titania & Bottom from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Art by Sarah Young https://t.co/8lt4RpzFLQ

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2021-04-03

Heinrich Lefler died in 1919. These gorgeous illustrations are from “Grimms Märchen” (Grimms’ Fairy Tales) and were by both Lefler and his brother-in-law Joseph Urban.

Godfather Death
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White and Rose Red

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"And here, superimposed by Richard Noakes, untamed nature in the style of Salvator Rosa. It's the Gothic novel expressed in landscape. Everything but vampires.” (Tom Stoppard)

Proto-Romantic Baroque rebel Salvator Rosa died 1673 in Rome

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2021-03-15

Dark, gothic and witchy illustrations by IrenHorrors
https://t.co/WSendYRhzg

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2021-03-13

VICTORIAN RAPUNZELS (1865-1900) spooky hair days prior to

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2021-03-04

Plant-women transformations of Daphne and Syrinx as they fled from their sexual aggressors highlights the benevolent capacity of botany, the interchangeable nature of plants and the female body and the theme of male entitlement

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2021-02-26

Booking is open for Online Conference 8-11th April. Featuring over 70 papers & 8 keynotes including Chair of Folklore Soc. Prof Owen Davies. Full Programme & links to registration here RT https://t.co/C6jsdmgu4q

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2021-02-25

Telling the bees is a custom in which bees would be told of births, marriages, or deaths in the household. There is speculation that the practice is derived from Aegean notions about bees' ability to bridge the natural world with the afterlife.
🎨 Nicholas Tolmachov

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2021-02-21

UNDINE A fairy-tale novella by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. Undine, a water spirit, couples with a knight, in order to gain a soul.The first adaptation of was E. T. A. Hoffmann's opera in 1816. 🎨Undine beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham (1909)

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2021-02-20

are busy finalising the programme for our Gothic Fairies conference in April. Fairies encircle a tomb at night in E.T. Parris, 1832. The white floating figure of a fairy ballerina in productions of 'Giselle' & 'Ondine' is here transposed

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