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BAMBI🦌
.. chosen as the next prince of the forest, like his father. After the death of his mother, he learns about friendship, love, and how to survive alone, and protect his loved ones..
"..child and happy mother.."
Sonnet 8

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

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In Italian folklore Befana is an old soot-covered woman or witch who delivers gifts to Italian children on Epiphany Eve (6th January
If the child has been bad she might leave them a lump of coal!
Art: Laura Tempest Zacroff

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2022-03-30

HC Andersen's Snow Queen held an evil magick over certain individuals, somehow incorporating the Devil's distorted mirror into their vision, and making them misjudge goodness and beauty.

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Why has the witch inspired such fascination and fear in equal measure for centuries? She embodies the shadow side of our wisest selves, she rides the seasons, she sees and knows, she does what must be done, melding past and future with what exists here and now.

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'The Mastermaid cuts the lad’s finger and lets three drops of blood fall. She piles up all the old rags and rubbish and drops them into the cauldron, fills a box with powdered gold...and off she goes wi’t king’s son.' https://t.co/mpz7vuqfwX

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2022-03-30

The Pakistani “churail” dwells in all places abandoned or unpopulated - mountains, in graveyards, or under trees. The witch has backwards-pointing feet, and may take the form of a beautiful woman to lure men to their deaths.

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2022-03-30

Sometimes positively connotated, other times identified with witches, the MEIGAS are well known characters in Galician lore. The word "meiga" may come from Latin MEDICA (since they are women who know the secrets of healing) or perhaps from MAGICA (magic woman).

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2022-03-29

The tale of a shape-shifting magical lady, told more delicately by than by
https://t.co/unZhDAZefD
“My lord,” she said, “give thanks thereby,
For with these words you’ve said, wherein
You made me your own sovereign,
My destiny is overcome.”

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2022-03-29

Which came first, the language or the lore?
German witches transform themselves into butterflies in order to steal cream.
In German, the word for 'cream' is 'schmetten' and the word for 'butterfly' is 'schmetterling'.

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2022-03-29

A tiny toad makes a tremendous familiar! This one was created with watercolor and ink on Readi-Board.

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2022-03-29

Mother Gothel is a witch with a wonderful garden full of medicinal plants. But when a man takes some of the Rapunzel plant from her garden for his pregnant wife, she is furious and demands that she get the unborn child in return.

🖼

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The evil enchantress cried, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair."
And Rapunzel let her long golden hair fall out of the window and the enchantress climbed up and into the tower ...


🎨Gustaf Tenggren

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In Greek mythology, the goddess and enchantress Circe was the daughter of the sun god Helios and nymph Perse. In a jealous rage after the sea-god Glaucus chose the nymph Scylla over her, she poisoned her, thus transforming her into a horrifying monster.

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Traditional lore in Poland tells of water sprites, 'Rusalka', spirits of dead maidens who haunt the Earth, awaiting their chance to leech life force from mortals and other earthly beings

by Frank Cheyne Papé (1878-1972, English)

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2022-03-29

In Basque mythology, the eguzkilore (the flower of the sun) is a quite mystical flower. Amalur, the goddess of the land, gave the eguzkilore to men to protect them from the evil spirits and the sorginak (witches) who would get out at night 1/3

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This week's features magical women, incl witches & their familiars. The work of artist extraordinaire Arthur Rackham has that special quality that pulls me in, makes me feel like a little boy discovering that otherworld for his very first time.

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I have a fairy by my side
Which says I must not sleep,
When once in pain I loudly cried
It said "You must not weep"
If, full of mirth, I smile and grin,
It says "You must not laugh"

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2022-03-23

Sometimes the "Narnia" books depict walking trees living in Narnia and other times dryads. As they never interact with each other, it's unclear their relationship or whether they're actually the same species. However, the art depicts them as very different.

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2022-03-23

One of my favourite things about fairy tales is their focus on the miniature. Hans Christian Andersen had a gift for creating small worlds, like that of Thumbelina’s natural realm, penned in 1835. She slept in a walnut shell. I always loved that (🎨 Boyle)

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