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"Grimm's Fairy Tales", Ward, Lock & Co., 1938.
Illustration by Harry G. Theaker

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'Rotkäppchen', 'Little Red Cap'

by Evelyn Stuart Hardy (1865-1935, English)

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Snow White
"Then they put the coffin out upon the mountain, and one of them always stayed by it and watched it."

The Brothers Grimm


🎨 Alexander Zick, 1886

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The fairy tale Snow White and Rose Red has no connection to the Grimm Brothers' other fairy tale Snow White.

In this story, two kind sisters help a prince who has been turned into a bear and an ungrateful dwarf—with mixed results.

🎨 Artist unknown, 1883.

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Tenggren’s own fairytale: he grew up with his grandfather in poverty on a remote farm near Västergötland; by 25 he was working in Manhattan as an illustrator; at 40 he joined Disney in LA. His last years were spent on a farm in Maine that reminded him of Sweden

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Gustaf Tenggren's for Walt Disney’s 1937 animation Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs (Brothers Grimm) He was invited to be Art Director on Snow White after a Disney talent scout discovered him in NYC His childhood in rural Sweden inspired his story-world

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In the Grimm Brothers version of Cinderella, Aschenputtel, instead of getting help from a fairy godmother, birds from the hazel tree that grew at her mother’s grave bring Aschenputtel a dress and gold slippers for the ball.

🎨 Paul Menerheim

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Long before true crime and blood spatter evidence, there were singing drops of blood, summoning people to the crime scene♥️

"Where are you?"
"Here I am! On the stairs sweeping," answered one of the drops of blood.


🎨 Arthur Rackham

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The Big Bad Wolf is a recurring antagonist in several fairy tales. He is a lying glutton with a habit of swallowing his prey whole. What exactly he symbolizes is still hotly debated, from being an analogue to Fenrir to simply representing danger in forests.

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A stepmother hated her step sons and cast a spell turning them them into swans. Their sister resolved to free them and set about making each brother a shirt of starwort, not speaking, or laughing for seven years https://t.co/8riA3BbdGC

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The Pied Piper Of Hamelin, a tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. Set in the Middle Ages about a rat catcher hired to rid Hamelin of its rat infestation. The citizens refuse to pay him, so he retaliates by luring away their children forever.
🖼Arthur Rackham

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"One day he took her to walk with him out of the town and showed her the spot where the boat was turned adrift upon the wide waters. Then he sat himself down, and said I am very much tired; sit by me"

King of the Golden Mountain

🎨Sophie Rodionov

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to the creator of The Flower Fairies, Cicely Mary Barker. Born OTD 28 June 1895, in Croydon (at the time Greater London). Her first book, Flower Fairies of the Spring, was published in 1923. Image: The Sweetpea Flower Fairies. in Cancer

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Brothers Grimm liked Thomas Crofton Croker's 'Fairy Legends & Traditions of the South of Ireland (1825-1828)' so much they translated it into German, in Leipzig, 1826! Irische Elfenmärchen; Irish Elven Tales. Contained this illustration of The Banshi of Bunworth

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In "Clever Gretel," a chef eats the chickens she cooked for her master & his guest. So she tells the guest her master wants to cut off his ears, & he flees. She then tells her master the guest stole the chickens, & he runs off to chase the guest with a knife.

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"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."
- Henry James
Image "At the Beach"
by Edward Henry Potthast

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"Long Meg" is the story of a witch and her daughters and their meeting with a mysterious fiddler during Summer Solstice (Source: Taffy Thomas' Cumbrian Folk Tales).

Image: Tiffany Turrill's "Long Meg and Her Daughters"

Source: https://t.co/3xiLXoQdQk

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