Still not very well today but I did manage one new thread. I thought I'd also re-share this old thread that has a small collection of my tweets about birds in for today's Also here are some birds in prints by Utagawa Hiroshige. https://t.co/pwQ2fjZHy1

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A Bexhill Gnome. "A Pied Fancy" written & drawn by our own Nina Kennard Brisley (1898-1978), from the Number of the Bexhill Observer 16.12.1911 for It would seem our gnomes are not very nice.

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In my version of The Tinderbox, the princess has to rescue the soldier from prison. Here's a close up of that scene for

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Both and wrote novels which featured magic rings.

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"Seven months had passed and their wish came true- a child no longer than a thumb was born. Because he was so little, they called him Tom Thumb and loved him with all their hearts.The boy became wise and nimble, but he never grew in size..."

~Tom Thumb,#FairyTaleTuesday.

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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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"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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Just submitted a application , now off to bed with new inscribed gift copy of enchanting new book -one hour left until

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Another Grimms' heroine for The long-enduring Maid Maleen, like many other princesses, chips her own way out of a tower; but this fairytale is an extraordinary study of post-traumatic stress.

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It's
Legends of Celtic mythology:
Tam Lin
Cu Roi mac Daire
Aoife
Cuchulainn
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5. or Yomi-no-kuni is the land of the in It is referenced in and translates into of
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A favourite Quebec tall tale for
Legendary hunter Dalbec was in the woods one spring making maple sugar when a bear came by. Dalbec hid inside an empty barrel and, at the right moment, grabbed its tail. It ran off, carrying Dalbec and the barrel with it.

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We're sharing our blog post A Prince Who is a Beast for Read about Beauty and the Beast and other versions of this tale.
https://t.co/z7ZxKgX1ds

Pictured: Illustration by Frederick Richardson for East O' the Sun, West O' the Moon.

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Beauty and the Beast is a tale as old as time. Adapted and illustrated the world over, we've picked our favourite illustrations from the Golden Age of Illustration for this week's By Warwick Goble, Walter Crane, W. Heath Robinson, and Edmund Dulac. 👑

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Finally there are quite a few gods who are creatures of the sea for
-Greek sea god
- Sea Nymph
- Sea Titan
-Born of the sea https://t.co/EvcJp97u1R
-Norse sea god
-Norse sea god 5/5

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Some beautiful birds in art for
1: 'Shrike and Bluebird with Begonia & Wild Strawberry' - Hokusai, 1834.
2: 'White Herons & Willow' - Shoson Ohara, 1926.
3: 'Blue Bird on a Branch' - Seiko, Ca. 1900.
4: 'Crows in Moonlight' - Shoson Ohara, 1927.

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Gustave Doré's illustrations to Charles Perrault's fairy tales appeared in 1862. The seemingly innocent tale translated as 'Little Tom Thumb' contains one of the most unsettling images in fairy tale history, the ogre's slaying of his seven sleeping daughters

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