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8. The #LightningBird/#Impundulu/#Thekwane/#Izulu, is a #creature in #SouthAfrican #folklore. It is a human sized black and white bird, said to summon #thunder and #lightning with its #wings & #talons & is said to have an insatiable #appetite for #blood.
#FairyTaleTuesday 9/11
6. In #Roman #Mythology the #Caladrius was a #Snow #White #bird that would visit the homes of the #sick. The Caladrius was able to take the #sickness into itself and then fly away, dispersing the sickness and #healing both itself and the sick person.
#FairyTaleTuesday 7/11
John Anster Fitzgerald often paired birds and fairies in his paintings. He would frame some of his pictures in a fragile mesh of gilded twigs so that they resembled a nest...
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Stravinsky’s “Firebird” was written for the ballet. The firebird holds a sacred place in Russian folklore. A symbol of doom to hope, the Firebird’s rise from its ashes has inspired many. It inspires me & is playing whenever I write.
🖼️ Ballets past & present
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The Morrigan and her sisters are most commonly associated with crows and ravens, carrion feeders who flock to fields of battle like the three war goddesses. Commonly she/they can transform into crows, as displayed in the tales of Cuchulainn. #FairyTaleTuesday
🖼: J. Juta
"As I was walkin' all alane
I heard twa corbies makin' mane
The 'tain unto the tither say, o
"Where shall we gang and dine the day, o
Where shall we gang and dine the day?"
"Twa Corbies" (two ravens) tells a grim tale of said birds feasting on a slain knight
#FairyTaleTuesday
In the Tsimshian cycle Raven the Trickster sees that the world is covered in darkness. He then returns to the heaven & as a cedar leaf is swallowed by the chief’s daughter. Born as her son he steals the daylight, wears his raven skin & flies in the world w/ it. #FairyTaleTuesday
เอิ่บทันแหละ(รกมากจาบ้องแต่ขก.แก้งานแล่ว👁💧👄💧👁)
#FairytaleLoveXYW
#warwanarat
#yinyin_anw
One by one, brave knights in armour rode out to fight the Dragon. But their lances were too old and too blunt to pierce its iron scales, and they choked on its poisonous smoke.
#lockdown #FairyTaleTuesday #picturebook #illustrations #Illustrator #ChildrensBooks @KateChesterton
Thread: Our feathered friends! 🎨@jimfitzpatrick #birds #Ireland #FairyTaleTuesday 🐦🦢🪶https://t.co/fjeM58vj1F
My research pinboard while writing #TheProphet Day 3. The Cheshire Prophet Robert Nixon. Said to be a stupid ploughboy yet if he existed, foretold death of Charles I, Great Plague & 'Three years of great wars,' one still to come...
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Some magical birds by Arthur Rackham for you all today (circa 1906-15). Somehow, with his fairy-tale eye, he made these feathered friends seem enchanted, unique, & wise all at the same time. ☺️🪶💕
#FairyTaleTuesday #Rackham
#FairyTaleTuesday The #Nightingale and The Rose by Oscar Wilde is a #fable of love, loss, sacrifice, selfishness and selflessness. First published in 1888 in the #anthology The Happy Prince and Other #Tales.
Beautifully illustrated here by P J Lynch.
Kalaviṅka or in Japanese Karyōbinga is a fantastical immortal creature in Buddhism, with a human head and a bird's torso. It is said to sing while still unhatched within its eggshell. Its voice is a descriptor of the Buddha's voice. Image by Katsushika Hokusai. #FairyTaleTuesday
In Finnish mythology, Siberian Jay could hold human souls. The souls that passed on into a Siberian jay were hunters, witches, people who had gotten lost and died in the forest. Sometimes even forest sprites would move into a jay.
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Florence Mary Anderson - Art and Illustrations Cards Set – Available Now to Order Here: https://t.co/vsae45aTEq - #FairyArt #FairyTales #ClassicArt #VisibleWomen #FantasyArt #ChildrensBooks #FlorenceMaryAnderson
"Ivan Tsarevich and the Grey Wolf" is a Russian fairytale collected in the 19th century by Alexander Afanasyev and illustrated in 1969 by Nika Goltz. Ivan has to capture a firebird which is both a blessing and a harbinger of doom to its captor. #FairyTaleTuesday
In the MABINOGION Celtic wizard Gwydion creates a woman out of flowers, Blodeuedd, who becomes a flower-faced owl Blodeuwedd. When Alan Garner found plates the design of which could be seen as either owls or flowers The Owl Service 1960 was born #FairyTaleTuesday
The #GoogleDoodle of the day is of Zitkala-Ša, a Native American author. Musician, teacher, advocate, and more, she lived an amazing life. Read the tales of her collection, Old Indian Legends, at Fairytalez.
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