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In Galician folklore, Pedro Chosco is an old man with a half-closed eye. He puts children to sleep with gentle caresses, although it prefers to seduce girls (especially maids)....

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2022-09-27

Ankou (prononced Anku_ yeah it's French yep yep)

Comes from breton folklore (the French region ofc). Somehow similar to grimm reaper; the Ankou is the personification for all the deads. Means "the death"/"the dead one". His role is to serve the Death.

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2022-09-26

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

A new team has risen 💚

The Squonk (Lacrimacorpus dissolvens) is a folkloric creature & Fearsome critter reputed to live in the Hemlock forest of northern Pennsylvania.

-Concept and Art by
-Commission for tion

🚨Reserved intellectual property🚨

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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

📊 | ’s “Future Nostalgia” & ’s “folklore” continue to be the 2 most streamed albums by female artists released in 2020 on daily streams (Spotify)!

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Jenny Greenteeth or Ginny Greenteeth is a figure in Lancashire folklore is described as a nasty water hag with green, skin, long hair & sharp, teeth. Jenny hides beneath duckweed in ponds, she would try to drown folks dragging them into the water then eats them.

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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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"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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2022-09-25

今日は尻尾の長い河童です！
病気を流行らせて醤油屋に無理ぶりを要求する理不尽な河童。

kappa-only youkai Encyclopedia
No.61:Kappa with a long tail
    

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2022-09-25

"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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2022-09-25

Richard 'Dickie' Doyle (1824-83): Teasing a Butterfly

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2022-09-25

John Dickson Batten (1860-1932) initially studied law before realising he'd chosen the wrong career. His subsequent paintings contained mythological & allegorical motifs which ultimately steered him toward illustrating fairy tales, nursery rhymes & nonsense tales.

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