Another piece of concept art of the scrapped Warner Bros. Feature Animation film BlueBeard.

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

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

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

"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

"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

Happy #InternationalFairyDay! 🧚‍♀️✨💖

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/w…

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

Gorgeous artwork by guobetty.com depicting The Pied Piper! Beidi #FairyTales

'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' - Tatiyana Bastet & I have edited an issue of Peace Review Journal on #folklore. Read the OA intro tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Did you know that we're partnered with The Folklore Library & Archive to preserve everything we publish for the future? 📚 Find out more about The Folklore Library & Archive here: folklorelibrary.com/home.html #Folklore #FairyTales #Archive #DisabilityTwitter #WritingCommunity #LibraryTwitter

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!)

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 🎨Theodor Kittelsen

"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.)

"Courage, dear heart." A lion made of driftwood by artist Jeffro Uitto

Remember when Neil Gaiman 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/…

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. volunteeringukraine.com/post/once-upon… #UkraineRussianWar #Ukraine #Folklore

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 1/2