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To the rich man's son he commanded, “Stay where thou art, and sit beneath the earth all thy days, so long as the sun is in the sky.”
And the rich man’s son instantly transformed into the first mole.

https://t.co/i9cfgE87eL

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2022-04-26

“And maidens call it ‘love-in-idleness’...
The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid
Will make or man or woman madly dote
Upon the next live creature that it sees.”
So Oberon plans to enchant Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. (Act 2 Sc 1)

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Beautiful and alluring, the witchy, enchantress Morgan le Fay is both a healer and wise woman. In Arthurian legend she was, initially, a kind character and protector of King Arthur. As legends developed, so too did the unpredictable duality of her nature.

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There's a Tinguian story where a boy named Kanag, tired of being sent out to guard the rice everyday, transforms into a bird (of his own volition). He preferred to remain that way for a while, and carry messages given by the spirits to the people 1/3

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I'm really just here to find my creative crew to roll with. Thank you all for sticking around. :D

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2022-04-20

"...And when they came quite up to the little house they saw that it was built of bread and covered with cakes, but that the windows were of clear sugar."

- Hansel and Gretel,
The Brothers Grimm
🎨 by Arthur Rackham

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Old lore told of faries swapping mortal children for a 'changeling'. Some folk, believing they'd been so cursed, roasted, drowned or beat this child, causing mutilation or death

Alice Bolingbroke Woodward (1862-1951 English)

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2022-04-20

It's not set long ago and far away, but I count CORALINE as a fairy tale, and love it whether it's a book in my hands or a film on my screen. As far as kid heroines go for fairy stories, she's one tough cookie.

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in for w/
JACK & THE BEANSTALK
I always related to Jack in this tale when I was growing up, since I knew I would trade a cow for magic beans...
Every. Single. Time.
🎨#vintage

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Little Boy Blue
come blow your horn,
The sheep’s in the meadow
the cow’s in the corn.

🎨 Clara M Burd

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2022-04-20

was also jealous of the because her husband loved them more than her. became ill with jealousy, which put her in the sickbed for a year. During this time, the plan to get rid of the children, that she loved like her own, developed. https://t.co/6xTvNW0NyQ

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2022-04-20

In the 1800s, when famine was more common, a magic house made of gingerbread, candy, & cake would have ignited the imagination of any child & did. In 1812, the Grimms’ Hansel & Gretel drew from old tellers & ancient myths to create a sweet but scary story 🍭🍰#FairytaleTuesday

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'Tom Thumb' illustration by Warwick Goble
From 'The Fairy Book' (1913)

'The butterfly took wing, and mounted into the air with little Tom on his back.'

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As Grimnir, Odin decided to test his adopted son Geirröth with Frigg's help: warned a coming wizard was his doom, Geirröth captured Grimnir ans bound him before a fire for a week. Only a child, Geirröth's son Agnar, showed Grimnir kindness.

🖼: G. Wright

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"Seven months had passed and their wish came true- a child no longer than a thumb was born. Because he was so little, they called him Tom Thumb and loved him with all their hearts.The boy became wise and nimble, but he never grew in size..."

~Tom Thumb,#FairyTaleTuesday.

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As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed.
–Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.🎨JessieWillcoxSmith

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Wild Cherry Blossom is native to Britain. Its white blossom flowers briefly before fading & so like its Japanese pink blossom cousin (sakura) it is a symbol of the transience of life. So to encounter a wild cherry tree is regarded as both auspicious & fateful.

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Irish hero Oisín's stay in Tir na nÓg is similar to Japanese hero Urashima Tarō's stay in the Dragon Palace. They return home to realise hundreds of years have passed. Oisín ages & dies after falling off his horse & Urashima Tarō opens a forbidden box and ages.

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The people of Vietnam are descended of Lord of Dragons and Queen of Mountain Fairies, divided between them. This origin explains the diverse peoples of Vietnam and its geography, all while setting them apart from their neighbors.

🖼: W. Lin

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