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The flight & fancy of fairy movement intrigued Ida R. Outhwaite. In her works & books she found such creative ways to re-imagine tiny, fairy worlds. 💫#FairyFriday

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2021-05-21

FISH-RIDING FAE by Australian illustrator Ida Rentoul Outhwaite 1888-1960

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2020-04-05

Endorse THE FAE as an alternative to the sorrows of human life & indulge in some y

Come away, O human child
To the waters and the wild
With a hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand (Yeats)

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2020-04-03

FAIRY RINGS: To get to fairyland, one option is a fairy ring. These are said to be caused by dancing fairies. Enter them on a full moon or Halloween. However, be warned other side effects include an early death.
Illus: Liga Klavina/Marina Veselinovic

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2020-03-31

MARGARET TARRANT & FAIRIES Margaret Tarrant (1888–1959) was an English illustrator & children's author. In the 1920s, Tarrant produced a long-running series of titles on the theme of The Forest Fairies, The Twilight Fairies & The Pond Fairies (below)

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2020-03-30

Well, this shot of Tinkerbell might not strictly fit the theme, but we're sharing it anyway...

'Peter Pan' (1924) dir. Herbert Brenon.

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2020-03-29

NEVER TAKE A RIDE FROM THIS HORSE! Kelpies are Scottish shapeshifters who live in and around water. In the form of horses, they entice human riders to take a ride before dragging them underwater to drown them, leaving entrails floating on the water.

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2020-03-27

FAIRY STEEDS: In Robert Burn's 'Tam Lin' (1771-9), the fairy knights and ladies ride horses.
'For I'll ride on the milk-white steed,
And ay nearest the town,
Because I was an earthly knight
They gie me that renown.'
Illus: 'A Tithe to Hell', Pamela Burne-Jones

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2020-03-27

AND The fae in Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' are seen hunting bats to steal their leathery wings for their own Arthur Rackham illustrated the play in 1908.
Hey fae leave those bats alone🦇

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2020-03-26

FAIRY BOATS from Amelia Jane Murray (1800–1896) pea pod, conch & dock leaf. Murray, a Victorian fairy artist from the Isle of Man, was referenced by in (1847) through Jane's fairy paintings

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2020-03-25

SNAIL FAIRIES Snail Shepherdess, Omar Rayyan; ; Snail- Riding Fairies via https://t.co/qZWTseXmrR

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2020-03-25