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"Doubtless imagine that I have acquired all the wealth and luxury that you see me enjoy without difficulty,but this is far indeed from being the case.I have only reached this state after having for years suffered every possible kind of toil and danger"
~Sinbad,#FairyTaleTuesday.

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2022-03-09

High in the tower the music and singing floated up to the Sultan’s daughter. Hearing it took her mind back to her husband and the times he would sing to her. She knew this could only be her Fair Brow and became excited https://t.co/VPbyWtCmdm

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2022-03-09

Mermaids can be found from every culture and from all continents. There once was a goddess who is believed to be the inspiration to all the mermaids stories that have been told around the world. This goddess was Assyrian goddess Atargatis.

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2022-03-08

Some nations named after women according to Medieval Legend:

- Scotland after Scot(i)a, an Egyptian Queen
- Albion after Albina a Syrian princess and absolute badass
- Éire after Ériu, one of the Tuatha Dé who stood up to invaders

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2022-03-08

“The Persians” takes place in Susa, as the Queen Mother, Atossa, narrates "what is probably the first dream sequence in European theatre."



The Ghost of Darius Appearing to Atossa in “The Persians” by Aeschylus

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2022-03-08

"As Aladdin was sitting alone, he started cleaning the lamp. Suddenly, a strange fog filled up the room and a voice said, ‘My Master, I am the genie of this lamp. What is your wish?’
Genie assured him that he would fulfill his wish,
"Take me to my home",he said.#FairyTaleTuesday"

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2022-03-08

In 'The Story of the Envious Man', a holy dervish is saved from death by who catch him when his enemy throws him in a well. The fairies then reveal a magic healing spell, which uses hairs from a

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2022-03-08

🕯️🎂🕯️Happy Birthday

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2022-03-02

Then old Mrs. Rabbit took a basket and her umbrella, and went through the wood to the baker's. She bought a loaf of brown bread and five currant buns.

Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Peter Rabbit

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2022-03-02

Walter Crane’s Victorian Bluebeard was forbidding and terrifying. Yet it was also embroidered with neoclassicism, Morris’ influence, & the Arts & Crafts movement’s love of tapestries, old manuscripts, medievalism, &…peacocks -if you can spot them ☺️🦚🗝#FairyTaleTuesday

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2022-03-02

If I had to pick one fairy tale I loved as a child, it was Bluebeard. Brought to life by Charles Perrault in 1697, & illustrated below by Doré & Dalziel in the 19thc, the tale’s themes of forbidden secrets & the perils of curiosity were as old as Pandora 😱🗝#FairyTaleTuesday

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2022-03-02

🌟Happy anniversary
H.C. Andersen’s The Wild Swans inspired some favourite illustrations: swans carrying their sister Eliza in a net; Eliza literally knitting for her & her brothers' lives; the transformation from swan to human.

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2022-03-02

Did you know? We nearly had a major animated movie based on this tale. It was being created by Don Bluth before loosing funding. Crazy part is, the story would have been set in the far future and the prince would have been an alien from space!

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2022-03-02

A recent favourite of ours is East of the Sun and West of the Moon. A Norwegian fairy tale that starts like Beauty and the Beast but then becomes an epic quest to save the prince from long nosed false bride

🖼Shannon Lamie

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2022-03-02

"Beside the old hall-fire—upon my nurse's knee,

Of happy fairy days—what tales were told to me!"

-Fairy Days by William Makepeace Thackeray(1811-1863)

Illustration:Helen Marry Jacobs,#FairyTaleTuesday.

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2022-03-02

In many stories, a magician's magic is innate and manifests at a certain age; thus certain birthdays are especially important. Gwyn in "Snow Spider" receives his magic tools on his 9th birthday while Will in "Dark Is Rising" receives his first one on his 11th.

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2022-03-02

“When the Spring, with a gentle stirring motion, announced Her arrival, a new & busy life arose; with songs & hurrahs the ice was sawn asunder, ships were fresh tarred & rigged, that they might sail away to distant lands.” Hans Christian Anderson

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2022-03-02

Beauty and the Beast by Ukrainian artist Chervona Vorona

✨ 🇺🇦

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2022-03-02

Here are four illustrations from my favourite fairytale, The Snow Queen. The protagonist is a young girl named Gerda, who battles her way through adventures to save her friend Kai from the evil Snow Queen.

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