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This is Enya, a fairy in the service of the witch of the forest, watching over the castle. The witch hopes to find her apprentice there. But Enya is not conviced that the human child has the skills to become a witch.

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2022-07-06

The Simurgh is a giant mythical bird from Persian mythology. Similar to the Chimera, it has many different animal parts that make up its body. Namely a body of a peacock, claws of a lion and a face of either a dog or human.

🖼ArtByKarlen

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2022-07-06

In the Serbian fairy tale "The Nine Peahens", a king's golden apple tree is plundered every night. When the youngest prince stays up to find who is stealing the apples, nine peahens appear — with the ninth turning into a beautiful maiden.

🎨 Catherine Rowe.

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2022-07-06

Even in the Grimm version, has bird friends. They help her to sort out all the lentils and peas from the ashes and then...well, things get a little bit Alfred Hitchcock. https://t.co/oNZpELw4Mz

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2022-07-06

An Illustration by Peter Sis, from “The Conference of the Birds,” his version of the Persian poem by Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar. Wikipedia has a lovely synopsis of the original tale, from c. 1177 AD. 🦉🕊🦜🦩
https://t.co/wVrHiouJmk

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2022-07-05

- Adarna Bird (or Ibong Adarna) is a beautiful legendary bird of the Philippines. It can easily change its form. It knows seven songs that could enchant anyone to sleep, turn into stone, or heal a deadly sickness. https://t.co/fh0m8EtjzU

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2022-07-05

FAIRY TALE BIRD WOMEN Sergey Sergeyevich Solomko's (1867-1928) fairy tale paintings include Mary the Swan Princess; he merges the blue bird of happiness with the tragic swan princess to create his Bluebird Maiden

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The War of the Crows and the Owls is a story that appears in Pancatantra and its translation, Kalila wa Dimna. The 13th century illustration from an Arabic Kalila wa Dimna shows the King of Crows consulting with his advisors to strategize against the owls 👑

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As I was walking all alane,
I heard twa corbies makin a mane.

The opening lines of The Twa Corbies (crows) an old Scottish ballad. A dark, cryptic tale about the murder of a knight. It is hinted that the knight was less than chivalrous and deserved his fate.

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2022-07-05

The birds held a great competition to decide their king. A little wren perched itself on an eagle’s back and stayed there until the eagle could fly no further. The wren then leapt off and flew ahead, winning the competition and becoming king!



🖼 Tim Stephens

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2022-07-05

Then the bird flew away and began to sing:
"My mother, she killed me,
My father, he ate me,
My sister Marlene,
Gathered all my bones,
Tied them in a silken scarf,
Laid them beneath the juniper tree,
Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird am I!"
-The Juniper Tree

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2022-07-05

Among the many things the Welsh hero Culhwch had to find to marry Olwen, daughter of the giant Ysbaddaden, were the Birds of Rhiannon. These birds' songs can wake the dead and put the living to sleep; Ysbaddaden demanded they entertain him before the wedding.

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2022-07-05

I’m a bit late to this week’s Grimm-themed but here are two recent pieces inspired by the stories Little Red Ridinghood and The Frog King, and an older piece inspired by Snow-White & Rose-Red 🐺 🐸 🌹 🎨

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2022-06-29

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

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2022-06-29

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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2022-06-29

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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2022-06-29

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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2022-06-29

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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2022-06-28