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A favourite Quebec tall tale for
Legendary hunter Dalbec was in the woods one spring making maple sugar when a bear came by. Dalbec hid inside an empty barrel and, at the right moment, grabbed its tail. It ran off, carrying Dalbec and the barrel with it.

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🌹🌹🌹My Eternal Favorites : Snow White, Disney Ills. Others, American ills. Kinuko Y. Craft 🌹🌹🌹

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Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, between, 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'The 'Princess and the Pea', but since I love this illustration by Edmund Dulac (1911) I'll go for the latter! A troublesome pea must have been placed under my mattress, lately?!*

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That particular day she'd been out collecting poppy seeds. She usually got into all kinds of trouble getting them, she knew it was worth it, as she believed they had magical powers.


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Our for is "A Riddling Tale" from Grimm's Household Tales, in which a husband successfully frees his wife from being enchanted to be a flower during the day and a woman at night by recognizing her from three identical flowers.
Art by Gina Biggs

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"Dragonfly wings buzzed from it's shoulders, colours constantly changing like oil on water. It's tiny face flashed him a warm, friendly toothpaste smile, welcoming eyes, feline amber under the small curling horns at it's brow.
“Hello my Duncan”

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The Hawthorn is an eternal symbol of spring & fertility. It is also said to be sacred to the fae who will seek revenge on anyone who damages a lone Hawthorn. Also known as the May tree, blossoms & boughs were collected at sunrise on May Day for the celebrations

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Happy anniversary !

Spring Fairy pictures by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

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Bears symbolize resurrection & renewal: the she-bear hibernates during winter but then awakens in spring in time to bring new cubs into the world. As such, bears teach us to move in cycles & to accept periods of rest that are crucial for incubating new life.

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Narcissus Poeticus, the daffodil of poets, arrives in late March. In Greek myth the self-obsessed Narcissus was turned into a white daffodil by Nemesis, & Persephone, goddess of was abducted by Pluto while she was gathering narcissi. Img: CMB/Waterhouse

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FAIRY RINGS Upon entering an elf ring or sorcerer’s circle of mushrooms you will become invisible & be made to dance around until you die of exhaustion. Fairy rings can uncannily appear in graveyards🎨W. H. Sullivan; graveyard ring

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A verse to celebrate & welcome spring
Spring, the sweet spring, is the year’s pleasant king,
Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring.
~Thomas Nashe
🎨Aloïs Hans Schram
Thanks for the & and a Happy Anniversary 💜🧚‍♀️

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March covers of Murzilka ;
Cute vintage illustrations of spring on retro magazine covers in Soviet Union.

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Celebrating w/#FairyTaleTuesday
with some
🌷"Springtime" by Pierre Auguste Cot, 1873
🌷"Flora Scattering Flowers" by Arnold Böcklin,1875

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Oscar Wilde wrote a fairy tale called "The Selfish Giant" about a giant who won't let anyone enter his garden. Miss Spring can't enter the garden, so Old Man Winter stays there. Then children sneak in to play & the snow melts, bringing Miss Spring at last.

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💜❄️;; Go for it, Chessur!”

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▪️ Reimagined 'Briar Rose' Fairytale Triptych ✨ Briar Rose defeating the Evil Fae
▪️ Character Design Final ✨ Level 5 Illustration
▪️ 2+ weeks [70+ hours]

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