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We are creating a hopefully-useful resource at Once Upon A Blog: "Black Fairy Tales & Folktales Matter - Useful Resources (a growing list)"
fairytalenewsblog.blogspot.c… (tale collections, articles, scholarship, novels, authors, kid's books, comics, films, TV & more) #BLM #FairyTales
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There were stories in the middle ages about the Finnish merchants who were selling balls of yarn to the travellers who were travelling along the shore. The travellers were said to get the favorable winds when they opened the knots from the yarn.
#WyrdWednesday
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ALT Photo by Keijo Väänänen
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Excited to share a new article about Ukrainian folklore! Folktales can tell us a lot about a people and their culture, so read this to discover why Ukrainians are so strong and resilient.
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#UkraineRussianWar #Ukraine
#Folklore
Remember when @neilhimself asked about folktales dealing with curiosity? Here's a handy list, with some notes on why tales tend to teach #curiosity as a survival skill, and some added tales for 2023. This is a "friend link" so no paywall! :) medium.com/the-wondering/cur…
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Another piece of concept art of the scrapped Warner Bros. Feature Animation film BlueBeard.
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Kari Træstakk has no petticoat but a wooden one. She inherits a cat who hunts game for her, earning her enough money for fine clothes to wear to church.
#AnotherCinderella #FairyTaleTuesday #notdisneyprincess
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"Once Upon A Crime" with LRRH as detective? I'm surprised it's taken anyone this long! There was a (mostly) fun anthology with the same title in 1999-a few others since too. Hopefully, this Japanese series will be more fun than not. (Tell Me A Story was interesting but violent.)
Not content with beating Disney at the animation game, Netflix is diving headfirst into reimagined fairytales buff.ly/3NXOILM
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Tales tell of fairies marrying mortal men. In one, the object of a fairy’s affection was an old man who had been long baptized, the fairies baked him in an oven to reduce him to ashes before kneading him anew; a ritual that made the new husband young and handsome. #FolkloreSunday
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'Given folklore's quiet pervasiveness in all our lives, it is unsurprising that it has often been used to think through the big issues faced by a community' - @LadyAntimonium & I have edited an issue of Peace Review Journal on #folklore. Read the OA intro tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Did you know that we're partnered with @LibraryFolklore to preserve everything we publish for the future? 📚
Find out more about The Folklore Library & Archive here:
folklorelibrary.com/home.htm…
#Folklore #FairyTales #Archive #DisabilityTwitter #WritingCommunity #LibraryTwitter
ALT Illustrated image of an open book surrounded by further drawings. Text reads: The Folklore Library and Archive.
A really clear review that explains the unique book 'Kin S Fur' by Margaret Yocom. As intriguing an idea/art piece as it seemed, I wasn't sold on it, as a reader, until Lissa's review - but now I am! (If this is your first time hearing about the book - read this review first!)
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The Lüneburg Manuscript (1440-50) references a piper leading 130 children out of Hamelin. The Grimm brothers based their evil magic Rattenfänger tale on an actual event that occurred in 1284.
#ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly
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The Lüneburg Manuscript (1440-50) references a piper leading 130 children out of Hamelin. The Grimm brothers based their evil magic Rattenfänger tale on an actual event that occurred in 1284.
#ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly
For #InternationalFairyDay, did you know fairies are thought to affect writers and artists too? One kind, the Pooka (aka Puca, Phooka) is known for luring folks onto its back and taking them for a wild ride -for an artist it can be fabulous. Or a disaster. medium.com/illumination/when…
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"In the legend of the changeling, an unlovable child is left by the fairies in place of a real human child." - IRA GLASS, Bad Baby, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #BadBaby #InternationalFairyDay #IraGlass
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It's #InternationalFairyDay
Have a Fairy wonderful Saturday with your friends!
One of our gorgeous #books from #museum of #childhood #reading #fairy #illustration #art #fairytale
ALT Book illustration - fairy sitting among lots of birds.
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Irlanda recompilou os seus contos tradicionais entre 1937 e 1939. Xuntaron centos de miles de páxinas coa axuda do alumnado de 5000 escolas. Foi un traballo enorme da Irish Folklore Commission, co impulso de Seán Ó Súilleabháin e Séamus Ó Duilearga.
#InternationalFairyDay
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"Where the water-lilies go
To and fro,
Rocking in the ripples of the water,
Lazy on a leaf lies the Lake King’s daughter..."
-A. A. Milne; Art by E. H. Shepard
#BookWormSat #InternationalFairyDay
ALT Illustration by E. H. Shepard of a fairy sitting on a water lilly