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Cupid & Psyche, is the love story of the mortal Psyche and the god Cupid. It is thought to be the inspiration behind the fairytale Beauty and the Beast.

🖼Jean Baptiste Regnault

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In the Cornish tale The Mermaid of Zennor a mysterious lady visits a church where she enchants everyone with her voice. She falls in love with the best singer. They disappear. The lady was a mermaid and it's thought that the couple lived happily ever after.

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If you’re looking to attract love for then you should track down some lemonbalm. If you plant it in your garden it will attract suitors to your door or leave some at the entrance of a beehive for 24 hours then dry & sew into your outfit for ‘swarms’ of interest!

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Grimms' "The Goose Girl"
A queen's gifts to her precious daughter thwarts an otherwise cruel fate
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"Alas, young queen, passing by,
If this your mother knew,
Her heart would break in two"

Illustration Paul Meyerheim, 1890

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The Crab Apple is the most ancient of English trees. According to lore if you throw its pips into the fire while chanting the name of your beloved, they will explode if your love is true & lasting. Image: Cicely Mary Barker

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Merrow in Irish folklore are similar to mermaids, seducing their prey into following them into the sea with their song. However in some Irish stories there are romantic tales of them transforming into humans to marry.



🖼Alice Alinari, Unsplash

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The gean-cánach, the 'love talker', is a male faerie in Irish myth similar to a leprechaun.
He is known for seducing men and women, but is particularly fond of shepherds and milkmaids.


art: Daemon Love by Maximilian Pirner

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Eshu, the Yoruba trickster god, is thought to have tricked Ifa out of the secrets of divination

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New Cards, Couples featuring-
Snow White & Prince Charming
Little Red Riding Hood & the Huntsman
Alice in Wonderland & the Mad Hatter (LGBT)
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Sir Galahad was the noblest, and most mystical of all the knights in King Arthur's court.

"My good blade carves the casques of men,
My tough lance thrusteth sure,
My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure."
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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gives us a stories about mermaids and of witches who ride your back instead of using a broom. A story of proud Annie Christmas and her six sons.

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"King Goldenlocks" in Von Schonwerth's is one of my favorite fairy tales, and characters. He's got gorgeous hair, gets to fight heroically in a war, pose as a humble gardener and marry the girl of his dreams.

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"Once upon a time there was a who felt broken; for the days were long, the demands great, and the reception of her work filled with mockings and scoffers. Thus she sat on the floor of her home and wept..."

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Say "White Rabbit" 3 times for good luck on the first day of every month. Today. also being and a will make it particularly potent!

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The Fairy and the Bear's Nose is a that is lodged somewhere in the back of my mind...


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Every St. Sebastian's Day he returns, hunting during the day: El Hombre Caiman is rhe Alligator Man of South American but Colombian folklore, a lycanthropic alligator that hunts for human flesh, a fisherman cursed for his perversion by the Magdalena River.

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“In great King Arthur's reign,Tom's history first begun; A farmer's wife had sigh'd in vain to have a darling son, A fairy listen'd to her call & granted her the same;
But being very small,Tom Thumb she did him name.”
🎨 Cock Robin Series, McLoughlin Bros (1888)

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In the Bland tomtar och troll tale Trollritten (The Troll Ride), our boy hero helps a hapless troll woman he finds lying in a ditch beside the road. She repays him by making his horse run faster for the rest of his life by magically riding its rump. 🖼 J. Bauer

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