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A dragon, a mythical creature breathing fire, having a scaly reptilian body, wings, claws, and a long tail. It appears in the folklore of many world cultures, considered both benevolent and malevolent according to region and belief system.
🖼Antonello Venditti

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The roc is a giant bird of prey, big enough to carry elephants in its talons, that appears in Middle Eastern tales, including those of Sinbad the Sailor. It could have been inspired by the Malagasy crowned eagle or the elephant bird, both now extinct.

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In Philippine legend, the Minokawa—a giant dragon-like bird with claws of steel & feathers sharp as swords—once swallowed the moon. Distracted by all the panicking humans, the Minokawa opened its beak, accidentally releasing the moon.

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GRIFFIN🦅🦁
..of Greek Mythology, a pig sized flying dinosaur, half eagle, half lion, that guarded the gold of thr kings, a very powerful, and majestic beast..#FairyTaleFlash

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PEGASUS🐴
..the immortal winged horse, which sprang from the neck of the beheaded Gorgon Medusa, and became the thunder-bolt bearer of Zeus, becoming an emblem of our ideals and accomplishments, flying from the mortal to the immortal realm..#FairyTaleFlash

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In order to win Gerd's hand in marriage, Frey sent his man-servant Skirnir to do his dirty work--wooing the fine jötunn lass on his behalf. By relying on multiple horrific threats of magic curses, Skirnir eventually convinced Gerd of Frey's affection. 🖼️Marussig

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in Jim Henson's Labyrinth our heroine is offered a peach 🍑. From Hades pomegranate to Rossetti's The Goblin Market... Accepting food from the Fae will tie you to their world
And here my own version of "As the world falls down" ↘️🎵 https://t.co/1D3drtGPKf

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There are dozens of various legends about the cursed ghost ship called the Flying Dutchman. In each, the protagonist somehow displeases either God himself or one of the spirits roaming the earth and sea, and is doomed to sail the oceans forever...
🖼️ Moira Risen

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Lentil soup is a great motivator in Mediterranean folktales. In a a prince is cursed when he kicks over some soup 🍲

"Oh dearie me! As I have yearned seven years for lentil soup, so you may yearn for Anthousa the fair with the golden hair!"

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Refusing fairy food can often result in curses. a Devon ploughman once mended a fairy’s broken baking peel; cider was left in thanks, which the man happily drank.  His plough boy refused it as he was scared and was pinched black and blue by invisible hands.

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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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“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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Pinocchio was a wooden puppet carved by Geppetto. He dreams of becoming a real boy, & known for his long nose which grows when he lies.

The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883), by Carlo Collodi
🎨 Charles Folkard, 1911

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"...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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"She tied my boat to the North Star so I would not grow up while she was gone." 💫✨

- Dream Boats and Other Stories, 1920

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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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