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LEPRECHAUN🇮🇪
..according to folk lore, fairies pay the leprachaun, for their work with golden coins, which the "little people" collect in large pots..the famous "pots of gold"..at the end of the rainbow..#fairytaleflash 🌈

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2023-03-14

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The Leprechaun is over 1000 yrs old, there was a ‘sighting’ in 1989 by a pub landlord called P.J O’Hare in Carlingford, County Louth. O’Hare says he heard screams from a well & found the remains of a Leprechaun which is on display in his pub.

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2023-03-13

“Sleeping Beauty and The Evil Queen” a fairy tale retelling by J Miller.

Wanna read this short story? Here: https://t.co/lVbuimDShq

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2023-03-08

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way that you feel
As every fairy tale comes real
I've looked at love that way...


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2023-03-08

"The Little Match Girl" escapes her cold and poverty by gazing into her burning matches. "Phone Gal" has her inner poverty relieved (also temporarily) by gazing into a phone. short film here. https://t.co/O1VoWUg4s7

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2023-03-07

1952's HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, while never meant for awards for historical accuracy, does have fun depicting various fairy tales through ballet. But did you know they were originally meant to be done in Disney animation?

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2023-03-07

Taken from Hans Christian Andersen's 1835 fairytale



Thumbelina, 1954
dir. Lotte Reiniger

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2023-03-07

Hans Christian Andersen's Revolution of Storytelling and the Best Illustrations from 150 Years of His Beloved Fairy Tales https://t.co/YD3ArYiTkw via

🎨Katharine Beverley and Elizabeth Ellender, Kay Nielsen, Georgi Ivanovich Narbut & Einar Nerman

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2023-03-07


A charming illustration by Mabel Lucie Attwell, of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, The Wild Swans. The story of a plucky, resourceful princess who saves her 11 brothers who have been turned into swans by a spell cast by their wicked stepmother.

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2023-03-07

"That poor little ugly duckling
Went wandering far and near
But at every place they said to his face
Now get out, get out, get out of here
And he went with a quack and a waddle and a quack."
🖼️Theo van Hoytema / 📔Andersen /🎵 Danny Kaye

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2023-03-07

"The Snowman" by Hans Christian Andersen—a tale of a snowman falling in love with a stove—is believed to be inspired by the author's two-year love affair with ballet dancer Harald Scharff. Andersen's attempts to rekindle the relationship were unsuccessful.

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2023-03-07

Hans Christian Andersen was bullied for his looks as a child, & speculated to be an illegitimate son of a prince. These factors are believed to have inspired "The Ugly Duckling," a tale in which a duckling deemed ugly discovers he's been a swan the whole time.

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2023-03-07

Scholars have speculated that the titular character of "The Snow Queen" was based on Hans Christian Anderson's unrequited love, Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind. The portrayal of the Queen as cold-hearted & malevolent could be inspired by Lind rejecting him.

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2023-03-07

Gerda & the Reindeer by Edmund Dulac, 1911. A talking reindeer helps young Gerda in her quest to find her friend Kai, who is being held captive by the Snow Queen. Gerda rides on the reindeer to the far north, finds the Snow Queen’s palace & rescues Kai.

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2023-03-07

❄️👑❄️The Snow Queen, by Hans Christian Andersen - a magical tale of how the brave and resourceful Gerda embarks on an epic quest to find and rescue her dearest friend Kai, who has been stolen away by a beautiful but cruel Enchantress.

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2023-03-07

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2023-03-01

‘The Princess on the Glass Hill’ is a beautiful & lesser known Norwegian fairy tale collected by Jørgen Moe and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen. I love the illustrations that were done for it over the years

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2023-03-01

Thread: In Belarus, when storytellers want to emphasise that something happened long time ago, they would say "in the old days, when people kept snakes in their houses"...

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2023-03-01

Legend has it that there is a breathtakingly beautiful crystal glass castle atop Nanga Parbat. It is home to the fairies.
To protect their home and their secrets, those who try to scale the peak meet their death.

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2023-03-01