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a painting of children playing in front of a ginger house with cats and dogs around it

Stock image 1443-1067: Hansel & Gretel Otto Kubel (1868-1951 German) Colored lithograph Westfalisches Schulmuseum, Dortmund, Germany

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an old book with a drawing of a fairy on it's cover, surrounded by flowers and leaves

I have decided to use this new venue as a way of collecting and sharing the things I find on line. My Tumblr account is set up like a scrap book. When you press on a image, the actual picture comes up. Press again, and you are directed to the original source! The name I chose for it 'MOTHTALES', alludes to the ephemeralness of those lovely lowly creatures and the tales they spin in their worldly travels. Like the 'here today - gone tomorrow' aspect of the moth, and my own 'flights of…

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an illustration from the story of snow white

Ferdinand Fellner (1799–1859), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons FEMALE STARS AND SHAPESHIFTING There are many heroes in folk and fairy tales but not so many heroines. Nevertheless, they are oft…

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a drawing of a woman with fire in her hair and two cats around her feet

Der Struwwelpeter: Struwwelpeter / Wikipedia It's "lights out" for boring bedtime stories. Bye bye to the tired tropes of fairytale princesses, and errant children who somehow pull off the craziest stunts unscathed – I mean, can we just point out that Hansel and Gretel were eating someone's hous

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