Fairies Collection (page 14)

Fairy leaves her home amid the roots
A small fairy leaves her house set in the roots of a tree. Watercolour painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Baby and Fairies
Tom witnesses the fairies come up from below the water and carry a baby and cradle gently down

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The Will o the wisp - the French feu follet - is a malicious sprite who lures unwary travellers to a muddy doom in bogs and marshes

The Moths and the Flame
Fantasy illustration by Edmund Blampied, showing winged fairies or sprites flying towards a flame in human form

A working fairy dressed in a green smock looks like he has just thought of a very good idea

Fairy Looking in Mirror
A blonde fairy brushes and arranges her long hair as she looks in the looking glass at her dressing table constructed from toadstools

The Fairies Come to Tea
A fantasy picture where a little girl, toy and various animals entertain a couple of fairies to tea in a woodland glade

Shooting Star Fairy
What you think are shooting stars are really long-haired fairies swooping across the skies

A Fairy Song 1926
A fairy song

Tom Thumb is Born
The birth of Tom Thumb : his parents are surprised at his diminutive size, unaware of the fairies on their doorstep

Girl with Fairies 1926
A young girl plays with her fairy friends unnoticed, while her mother sleeps and her brother reads. The cat though seems suitably surprised!

Fairies in Garden
A little girl encounters a caravan of fairies at the bottom of her garden

Willow Tree Fairy
LA FEE DES SAULES The willow tree fairy, a Flemish entity

Fairies Dancing
A group of fairies dancing in a ring close to the doorway of their fairy mound

Pantomime fairies flying across the stage, supported by wires from above

Fairies Oberon & Titania
Act II, Scene II Oberon sprinkles his spell onto Titania as she sleeps; a mischievious Puck flitters behind him

Water Babies / Fairies / Tom
The inhabitants of Polupragmosyne show Tom the way, though they all point in different directions

Water Babies / Tom / 1922
Tom awakens & finds that the fairies have changed him into a water baby, complete with his own gills resembling a lace frill

Milton / Fairies Dancing
A ring of fairies dancing, illustrating John Miltons A Vacation Exercise : " The fairy ladies danced upon the heath"

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Sometimes water nymphs and land-based fairies meet at the waters edge for a friendly frolic, which may result in mer-babies or other amphibious offpring

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When you take a drink from a magical or healing spring, don t forget to say Thank you to the water nymph whose job it is to keep it in good working order

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Sabrina, a water-nymph who lives in the river Severn, plays a prominent part in Miltons Comus : she is attended by Nereids who share her love of water sports

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Elves dance by moonlight, around a toadstool

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Rip van Winkle encounters the Man with the Keg, who entices him to drink too much of his Hollands, sending him to sleep for twenty years

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Tom Thumb - hero of a 16th century nursery tale - is provided with a horse upon which he can perform knightly deeds

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Tomb Thumb - hero of a 16th century nursery tale - is on the verge of becoming a giants breakfast, but fortunately succeeds in avoiding this fate

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Tomb Thumb - hero of a 16th century nursery tale - encounters a cow, whose lunch he almost becomes

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The original Tomb Thumb - hero of a 16th century nursery tale - was fortunate to have a fairy godmother, who protected him from the consequences of being vertically disadvantaged

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Puck and a Fairy - there is a kind of mutual tolerance between the various denizens of the Faery World, but there is also mutual suspicion

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Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, is a mischievous but generally good-natured sprite : he has equivalents in the folklore of most cultures

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Tim Domey rides the PHOOKA, an Irish spirit horse which is apt to carry its rider to places he would rather not go to

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ROBIN GOODFELLOW another name for PUCK, a mischievous but generally good-natured sprite of worldwide folklore

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Oberon and Titania, from Shakespeares Midsummer Nights Dream

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The Faerie Queene = poem by Edmund Spenser

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Irish Little Folk - Shuan Long is transported by the Little People to Fairtyland, where he finds himself in a wine cellar

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Irish Little Folk - Shuan Long, an Irish mason, finds the Little People roistering in his cabin

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Fairy origins : Vilis - Samian spirits of the wild

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Fairy origins : Nymphs in classical legend tend a fallen warrior

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Fairy origins : The centaur Nessus seeks to abduct the bride of Herakles

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Title Slide for a Lecture on Fairies

Fairy Courtship / Doyle
A Fairy Prince pays court to a fairy, inviting her to share his crown

Fairy Smelling a Flower
A fairy enjoys the scent of a flower

Fairy Chases Dragonfly
A fairy chases a dragonfly, flying over a pool

Pantomime Fairies
Working class children perform as pantomime fairies in a Victorian production

A Butterfly Fairy
A butterfly fairy

Girl, Imps, Toadstools
Dollys Dream. Why would Dolly dream of a little girl surrounded by imps, fairies, plum puddings, toadstools & a miniature town ?

Falstaff in the Forest
Falstaff in Windsor Forest is surrounded by what he takes to be fairies and such

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