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Undine is a water spirit from the eponymous novella by F. de la Motte Fouqué. When her human husband sends her away for another woman, she returns to her natural element but kills the knight with a tear-laden kiss. Illustration: Arthur Rackham - Undine"(1909) #FairyTaleTuesday
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Brownies painting the leaves, #illustration by J C Gilbert
A lutin is a type of French fairy or hobgoblin, and their tales can be found throughout Quebec. Their spirits can take the form of pets, especially white cats. Both good and evil, they can control the weather, shave your beard, and fill your shoe with pebbles.
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#FairyTaleTuesday In Scottish mythology, Selkie are seals that can become human by shedding there skin.
#Djinn/#Jinn/#genies, are #supernatural #creatures in early pre-Islamic Arabian and later Islamic #mythology and #theology. They could grant #wishes, but they were also able to manipulate these wishes and turn them into #punishments
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#FairyTaleTuesday John Anster Christian Fitzgerald was a Victorian era fairy painter and portrait artist. Many of his fairy paintings contain images of ghouls, demons, and references to drug use; his work has been compared to the nightmare-scapes of Bosch and Pieter Brueghel.
While D&D fans show their age by recognizing them as either dog- or lizard-like baddies, Kobolds are less low-level adventurer bait and more a linguistic variant. The word Kobold is just a German variant on the word Goblin. #FairyTaleTuesday
🖼: T. DiTerlizzi
The Blackthorn rules the dark half of the year from Samhain until May Day. It is dark moon magic, an “increaser of secrets.” Its thorns are the pins of a poppet, its wands used for cursing.
A tree protected by faeries, its berries are the sloe. #FairyTaleTuesday Img: CMB
The volatile relationship between #Fairies and their feathered friends (clockwise)--
Teasing the birds: Richard Doyle (1824-1883) &
A. Duncan Carse (1875–1938);
Saddled up: Jean Baptiste Monge (b.1971)
A tiff: Arthur Rackham (1867–1939)
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In Irish lore, Airmed is a fairy-goddess of herbal lore, healing & witchcraft. After her father killed her brother Miach out of jealousy, Airmed mourned him so deeply that all the plants of the world began to grow on his grave & share their mysteries with her. #FairyTaleTuesday
Hey! It’s been a while since I’ve uploaded but here’s something I’ve been working on. This is an initial poster idea for my animated series!
#poster #art #illustration #illustrationartists #illustrator #animationart #animation #tvshow #tvseries #cartoon #fairytale #folklore
#FairyTaleTuesday Goblin Market is a long narrative poem by #ChristinaRossetti, & tells the #story of sisters, Laura & Lizzie, & the river #goblins. Illustrated here by #ArthurRackham. A #fairytale for children or an expression of Rosetti’s feminism & homosexuality? You decide.
"Titania's Elves robbing the Squirrel's Nest"
Robert Huskisson 1854.
It was said of the artist that "he slipped out of the world, no one knew when or how"
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Fairies receive great representation in the legendary art of Arthur Rackham.
“Puck and a Fairy”
“Fairy Party”
“Another Part of the Woods”
“Ariel and the Fairies”
#FairyTaleTuesday @EnchantedEzine #fairytales #artist #ArtofLegends #artwork
Elementals are regarded not so much as spirits but as beings between creatures & spirits, generally being invisible to mankind but having physical & commonly humanoid bodies, as well as eating, sleeping, & wearing clothes like humans. #FairyTaleTuesday #Folklore
In the original tale of Aladdin, he captures two djinn: one contained in an oil lamp & one contained in a ring. The former makes Aladdin rich & powerful, while the latter frees him from a cave & later helps him find his kidnapped bride. #FairyTaleTuesday
Gorgeous illustrations of Thumbelina and her toad fiance by Janusz Stanny from 1955 and Thumbelina's escape on a swallow by Paulina Garwatowska from 1988 #FairyTaleTuesday
'Thumbelina' by Hans Christian Andersen illustrated by Janusz Grabianski in 1963. The bold watercolour strokes tell the tale of the tiny girl who avoids marriage with a toad and a mole by escaping on a swallow and finds love with a flower-fairy prince her size
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#TwitterFairyTalesAcademy | #FairyTalesAcademy
Hola hola conchatumadre por fin terminé, él es Theo, tengo miedo hace años no me meto a un #, que wea era rolear, te odio jaime, ya chao chao chao besitos.
Winter sunset
Purple tiger going to us from fairytale... :3
Commission work ^^
https://t.co/aXh2eAQkC5
#Digital #Tiger #Art