# rackham rossetti

The vain and villainous Avenant, who has been trying to kill the Beast, receives some poetic justice when, after being shot with an arrow by a statue of the Roman goddess Diana, he himself is transformed into a beast.

La Belle et la Bête (1946) dir. Jean Cocteau

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2019-07-01

GOBLIN MARKET 1862

One had a cat's face,
One whisked a tail,
One tramped at a rat' pace,
One crawled like a snail,
One like a wombat prowled obtuse and furry,
One like a ratel tumbled hurry skurry

illustrated Arthur 1933; Dante Gabrielle 1865

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2019-06-04

Physical transformations in folktales are often symbolic of a character's internal journey or indicate their negative or unattractive traits...

'Morozko / Морозко / Jack Frost' (1964) dir. Aleksandr Rou.

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2019-06-03