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In Scots Gaelic lore, faeries were regarded as either nature spirits or spirits of the dead. They exist in faerie mounds/ the underworld awaiting reincarnation. A similar belief regarding elves in n. Europe.


art: The Fairy Raid by Noel Paton

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Hi all, hope you’re having a great week so far! This Sunday’s theme is:

WHAT COMES THROUGH THE VEIL BETWEEN WORLDS ON HALLOWEEN. Bring on your ghosts, goblins, faeries, witches, & most importantly ANCESTORS, who come through.

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2022-10-14

In the British Isles owls have generally always been associated with death and so it was seen as a protective talisman against death to hang an owl feather over the door.

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2022-10-09

“Now shift the scene to moonlight glade,
Where dapper elves beneath the shade
Of oak or elm, their revels keep,
What time we plodding mortals sleep.” - from ‘The Spirit of the Woods’, author unknown.

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2022-10-09

The studio behind 'Nosferatu,' Prana Film, was founded in 1921 by Enrico Dieckmann and occultist artist Albin Grau, named for the Hindu concept of prana. Nosferatu was its only production as it declared bankruptcy after the film's release
Source: Wikipedia

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2022-10-03

Anton Mesmer believed that all humans and animals had a fluid running through their body which if blocked could cause illness. Mesmerism, as it became known, was the practice of unblocking the flow of liquid with the power of the mind.

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2022-10-02

If you like fairies, mermaids, and Disney princesses, follow lavera.grace on Instagram!


https://t.co/GLIKqjDSDG

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2022-09-26

I highly recommend following willowwaves_art on Instagram if you like fairy tale illustrations of people of color. I especially love her mermaids.


https://t.co/YTpumuivdD

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2022-09-26

Undine by Baron de la Motte Fouque (1811), about a water nymph that marries a man and gains a soul (& the weight of such feelings) only to be betrayed. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham (1909)
➡️🎧 My song "The Spirit of Water" https://t.co/3edntRZCKX

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2022-09-26

"The Buried Moon" is an Fairytale included by Folklorist J. Jacobs in "More English Fairytale" in which the a
Moon falls on a bog and is trapped by a falling tree so she stops rising. Here a haunting illustration for it drawn by Edmund Dulac (1916)

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So the Prince was tended with care …
Oh, a moon face in a shadowy place,
And a light touch and a winsome grace

The Prince’s Progress
Poem by Christina Rossetti

Illustration by Florence Susan Harrison

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2022-09-26

Hi all, a reminder that is happening now, with the theme of:

ILLUSTRATORS of the GOLDEN AGE of FAIRY TALES & FOLKLORE!

Bring on your fave images from RACKHAM, CRANE, RENTOUL OUTHWAITE et al, & tweet about them on the hashtag! Maude xx

Image: Kate Greenaway

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2022-09-26

"I used to meet her in the garden, the ravine, and in the manor fields. She was always picking flowers and herbs, those she knew her father could use for healing drinks and potions."

- Hans Christian Andersen's,
The Wind's Tale
🎨 Illustrated by Edmund Dulac

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2022-09-25

"From the other world I come back to you,
My locks are uncurled with dripping drenching dew.
You know the old, whilst I know the new:
But tomorrow you shall know this too."
--Christina Rossetti


🎨 Florence Harrison

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2022-09-25

All sprouts shot up from the deep bottom. Everything living arose. A profusion of water lilies spread out as if it were a woven carpet, and lying on it was a sleeping woman, young and beautiful.


🗨️H.C. Andersen
🎨 Elenore Abbott

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2022-09-25

Edmond Dulac's illustration for Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale 'The Nightingale.'
https://t.co/qKlGPT2lrg

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2022-09-25

The Golden Age of Illustration 1875 – 1920
In this period the popularity, abundance and upsurge in the quality of illustrated books marked a change in the way that publishers, artists and the general public came to view this art form https://t.co/2NSdXWpOYw

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2022-09-25

"Look at them, mother Troll said. Look at my sons! You won't find more beautiful trolls on this side of the moon" 1915 by Swedish artist John Bauer, an artist I ♥️ and see how he may have inspired Brian Froud's Mystics for The Dark Crystal, my favourite film

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"How cosy it is to sit in the warm glow of the fire listening to tales. Let the wind tell its own story! It can tell you more adventures than all of us put together..."

The Wind's Tale by Hans Christian Anderson, illustrated by Edmund Dulac (1911)

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