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Cinderella
Joseph Edward Southall (1861-1944)

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Sleeping beauty by Anton Pieck and it's realisation in the Efteling fairytale theme park.

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Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree (Craobh-Oir agus Craobh-Airgid): a Gaelic tale from Scotland. A king had a wife, Silver-Tree, and a daughter, Gold-Tree. One day they walked by a pond, and Silver-Tree asked a trout if she were the most beautiful queen in the world.

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Illustrations of Snow White displayed in her glass/ crystal casket like a beautiful artefact, frozen in time.
Art by (C/W): Thekla Brauer, Marianne Stokes, Caroline Paterson, Anna Surgan.

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Snaefrid: Norway. Snaefrid, or snow-fair, was the wife of King Harald. When she died, she remained as rosy and beautiful as she had been in life. The king believed she would come back to life and sat by her bier for three years.

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The tale “Lasair Gheug, the King of Ireland’s Daughter” is a version of the international wonder tale most commonly known as “Snow White,” but it contains many elements which identify it as specific to Gaelic Scotland.

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Fairy tales, says Gertrud Nelson, are about anguish & darkness. Heroes are thrown into a world where all disguises are torn off, & a kind mother is a witch, a frog is a prince, where one must be seated in ashes & dressed in rags to connect to one's noble nature.

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'Sleeping Beauty' - Mizuno Toshikata, ca. 1900 - 1910.

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Smoky Mountain Rose: An Appalachian Cinderella.

I reckon ye heard o' Cinderella, but lemme tell you a story 'bout a sweet li'l thing named Rose? Set in the Appalachian Mountains and told in a lilting dialect that just begs to be read aloud.

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Reclining upon a bed, the curtains of which on every side were drawn back, was a princess of seemingly some fifteen or sixteen summers, whose radiant beauty had an almost unearthly lustre ...


🎨Rie Cramer

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The Scottish story of Kemp Owyne is a hardcore version of The Frog Prince/Sleeping beauty.

The hero must kiss a bewitched dragon to transform it back into a woman.

There's a big risk her dragony instincts will kill him, but with her help he gets a smooch.

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The tale of Cendrillon or Cinderella in three illustrations by Gustave Doré...

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In the Syrian tale "Sheikh of the Lamps," an Ifrit—a djinn associated with fire—magically impregnates a young woman with a beautiful daughter. Fifteen years later, the daughter loses her anklet in a river. A prince finds it, tracks her down, & marries her.

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In the Tunisian tale "The Fair Foster Child of the Ghoul," seven sisters living alone are attacked by a ghoul, who devours six of them. The youngest escapes to the home of another ghoul, who becomes her loving foster father & gets her married to a prince.

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dragons are a Chinese mythical hybrid creature. Pixiu are considered powerful protectors. Statues of them are often found near doorways to ward of evil.

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A Putto Pours a Phial into a Dragon's Mouth, Pumping a Bellows with His Other Hand; Representing the Fixing of Volatile Matter in the Alchemical Process by Salomon Trismosin (after)

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by Frank Cheyne Papé (1878-1972, English) for "The Nightingale Robber"

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A lover's The Dragon Princess. Where treasure is hoarded by dragons & a magical stone can control them! “This stone is only obeyed by dragons who make clouds & send down rain. It will not do for dragons who guard the pearls of the Sea-King.” 

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