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mote-historie · 10 months

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Kay Nielsen, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, illustration from, In Powder and Crinoline: Old Fairy Tales, retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, pub.1913.

Don't drink! cried out the little Princess, springing to her feet; "I would rather marry a gardener!"

#kay nielsen #1913 #the twelve dancing princesses #colour litho #in powder and crinoline #old fairy tales #antique #illustration #princesses #Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch #painting #fairy tales #dancing pincesses #tales

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sassafrasmoonshine · 5 months

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Warwick Goble (British, 1863-1942) • Illustration for Beauty and the Beast • 1913

#illustration #art #illustrator #sassafras and moonshine #artwork #book illustration #old fairy tales #fairytail illustration #warwick goble #british illustrator #sassafras and moonshine blog #illustrative arts #golden age of illustration britain

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petaltexturedskies · 4 months

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C.S. Lewis, from “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”

#the chronicles of narnia #the lion the witch and the wardrobe #c.s. lewis #typography #someday you will be old enough to star reading fairy tales again #♡࿐#fairy tales #(that days has come)

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lepetitdragonvert · 3 months

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Thumbkin and Other Stories

Text Version by W. K. Holmes

Artist : Barbara C. Freeman (1906-1999)

Blackie & Son Limited

London and Glascow

#barbara c. freeman #children's literature #children's illustration #fairy tale #children's books #vintage illustration #fairy story #children's book #fairy tales #old illustration #hans christian andersen #andersen #thumbkin #thumbelina #thumbeline #poucette #poucelina

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vimbry · 4 months

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sad that I couldn't take a photograph for obvious reasons, but there was a parcel at the post office today addressed to "grandpa mice". I absolutely want to know what grandpa mice's deal is

#I'm assuming it's a grandpa in a family known for keeping a lot of mice #but what I really hope it is is a fairy tale situation where a plucky orphan was adopted by an old man who is secretly just a lot of mice #maybe he's just called michael or something

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nemfrog · 7 months

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"The fairies began the prettiest dance that ever was seen." Queen Titania's book of fairy tales. 1883.

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#fairy tales #illustration #fairies #faeries #nature worship #old trees #forest #the woods #nemfrog #1883 #19th century #1k

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k1rishiki · 1 year

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kinu nishimura saber 🤝 clamp saber

#they're both so pretty but like. the same brand of pretty. yk?#like wada arco saber is pretty and takeuchi saber are pretty but in different ways. kinu nishimura and clamp's sabers both look like #an illustration from an old book of fairy tales #(<< is the ceo of old books of fairy tales)#romeo.txt

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paystery · 5 months

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my top ten actors are barbie in her 2001-2015 movies

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webdiggerxxx · 21 days

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#book #fairy tale #story book #fable #goat #wolf #big bad wolf #gore #body horror #morbid #illustration #japanese #japan #flickr #oldweb #old web #2009

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thestuffedalligator · 7 months

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Bricks of gingerbread were laid with layers of icing for mortar. Caramel coloured light gleamed through sugar glass windows.

The gingerbread… things stumbled through the kitchen on legs unused to walking. They leaned on each other, gingerbread hands on gingerbread shoulders, each about the height of a child.

Ethel Muckwillow, witch, stared at them in unmasked horror.

Agnes Blacktreacle said: “-And there I found them in the woods, starved to death, dead as a doornail. Well, I couldn’t leave that alone, otherwise people in the village would accuse me of something!”

She poured a spoonful of sugar into her tea and carefully lifted her cup when one of the things stumbled and slammed its gingerbread head into the table with a thunk and a sticky groan. “And I thought, I have all these baking supplies from when I made the house, so why not make some replacements?” she said, pouring another spoonful of sugar. “I whipped them up in about a day – once they figure out walking, I’ll send them back home, and nobody will be none the wiser.”

The gingerbread boy – or at least, the gingerbread thing decorated with icing to look like boy’s clothes and a glob of buttercream teased into a vaguely masculine hairstyle – held its head and groaned. The gingerbread thing with long, dark, marzipan hair twisted the hem of its gingerbread skirt nervously. It looked up at Agnes and opened its mouth to reveal a tongue made of a glacé cherry.

It said: “Aaaghlaglaglagglegglgl.”

Agnes clucked her tongue and got up to fuss over the gingerbread boy. She was wearing a frilly apron on top of the standard witching uniform. It didn't go well with the look at all.

Ethel Muckwillow stared at her fellow witch. Agnes had a tendency to go too far with these kinds of things, and it was just possible that this may have been too far even for her.

“Gingerbread changelings,” she said.

Agnes looked up from pressing a marshmallow bandage to the gingerbread boy’s forehead and beamed. “Gingelings, if you will,” she said.

“I won’t,” Ethel said. “They were sent into the woods because they and their parents were starving, and you will be sending them back a pair of giant gingerbread changelings.”

“Yes?”

Ethel waited for the penny to drop. It didn’t.

“Aggie,” she said. “They’re going to eat them.”

Agnes gasped and clasped her hands over the gingerbread things’ ears. “They wouldn’t!”

“They’re starving peasants and you’re going to deliver them a walking, talking Christmas dessert.”

Agnes looked at Ethel. She looked at the gingerbread things. She sagged. “Damn,” she muttered.

“Sorry.”

“What if — what if I made a fondant? I could try to hide the gingerbread with a fondant.”

Ethel looked at the gingerbread things. They stared back with gleaming, beady, currant eyes. The gingerbread girl had started to chew on its marzipan hair.

“No,” she said. “I don’t think that would help.”

#fairy tales #hansel and gretel #the gingerbread man #short story #narrativia #child death mention #slightly tweaked the ending #if you saw the old version. no you didn’t

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mote-historie · 10 months

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Kay Nielsen, Princess Mignon Minette who goes out in search of Prince Soushi on a white horse, Illustration (painting) from, In Powder and Crinoline: Old Fairy Tales, retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1913.

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sassafrasmoonshine · 5 months

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Boris Diodorov (Russian, b. 1934) • Ilustration to Thumbelina

#illustration #art #illustrator #artwork #book illustration #old fairy tales #fairytail illustration #boris diodorov #thumbelina illustration #russian illustrator #sassafras and moonshine blog #sassafras and moonshine

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petaltexturedskies · 4 months

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I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis.

C.S. Lewis, from “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”

#c.s. lewis #the lion the witch and the wardrobe #the chronicles of narnia #some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again #fairy tales

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lepetitdragonvert · 5 months

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