Felfa’s Fairy Fiefdom

Fairy Queen of my own secret realm, aka The Pixie of Pocket Nook, here to share love, joy and enchantment by posting all things magical, miraculous and mystical

[Felfa’s Fairy Fiefdom @FelfaF]

#FolkloreSunday
In Celtic mythology deer are connected to the fairy realm or Otherworld. They are messengers associated with spirits, or gods who may shape shift into the form of deer. Some tales say they are “fairy cattle" herded and milked by an otherworldly woman.

[S. Williams @swilliamsdlis]

🔮 Some warnings should never be ignored.

“Be warned! The Stars have been silent for long; let the mystery still wrap them round.”

- Bram Stoker, The Gipsy Prophecy

🎨 John William Waterhouse, The Magic Circle (1886)

#FolkloreSunday
#BramStoker

[David Castleton (Author) @david_castleton]

After the death of the poet and musician Orpheus, his head floated down the River Hebrus, still singing mournful songs. His lyre was carried to heaven by the Muses and placed among the stars. #MythologyMonday #folklore #mythology

[Nifty Buckles Folklore @NiftyBuckles]

#FairyTaleTuesday 🔵✨ #BlueFairy 🧚‍♀️
Blue in folklore shimmers with protection, truth, and a quiet touch of the divine.

In Carlo Collodi’s "The Adventures of Pinocchio," the Blue Fairy is the gentle wish-granter who watches over a wandering wooden soul. She guides, tests, and protects—her soft light a reminder that honesty is its own kind of magic.

Her warning still lingers like a spell:
“A lie keeps growing and growing until it’s as plain as the nose on your face.”

More than a color, her blue becomes truth revealed, conscience awakened, and the patient force that steers a heart back to the right path. 🌟
#FairyTaleFlash ✨ #Wishgranter 🪄#Pinnochio 👦

💫 Pinocchio (1940)
Walt Disney Animation Studios.

[Flamenco Nut 🍄 @flamencobug]

#book #illustration by Louis John Rhead (1857–1926, English > American) in 'The Arabian Nights Entertainments', published by Harper & Brothers, New York 1916
#FairyTaleTuesday
A wicked sorcerer tries to trick Aladdin into giving him the Magic Lamp

[Lynne @ghirlandia]

Once more, Cinderella went to the hazel tree and said,

 “Shiver and quiver, my little tree,
            Silver and gold throw down over me.”

Millicent Sowerby #FairyTaleTuesday

[Flamenco Nut 🍄 @flamencobug]

"Scene from 'The Sleeping Beauty': the Good Fairy leaving the christening of the Princess, walking to her dragon-pulled carriage"
#FairyTaleTuesday
1863 #illustration (watercolour, pencil and body colour) by Richard Doyle (1824-1883, Irish/British)

[Don 🌱plant something 🌱 @versaillesboy]

While Cinderella keeps warm at the fireplace, she wishes to go to the great ball that her wicked stepsisters are attending.
Luckily her Fairy Godmother appears and grants this earnest wish.
A truly happy ending means she brings the kitty to the Prince as well
#FairyTaleTuesday

[P J Richards @P_J_Richards]

🤍🕊️🤍An old belief claimed that Witches could not shapeshift into the form of a dove.
#MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkWitchFriday #FolkloreSunday

[History of a Thing @ThingHistory]

#FairyTaleTuesday The Little Champion is a story written in 1850 by the Queen of Romania, collected in my book (below). In it, a brave young boy is gifted a magical spindle by a fairy queen so that he can always use it to help others, because of his selfless nature.

[Bevan Thomas @bthomasa]

"Why do the leaves never fall here, or the snow? I tell you, there is one unicorn left in the world... and as long as it lives in this forest, there won't be a hunter takes so much as a titmouse home at his saddle."
- Peter S. Beagle, "The Last Unicorn"
#WordsOnWednesday

[Therese Taylor @ThereseTaylor12]

"And a figure of pure fantasy has also broken through from Elidor ... Findhorn is a unicorn, with which ‘no man (may) mell’, according to the prophecy, save a ‘makeless maid’."
A review of Elidor. #YAFiction #WordsOnWednesday
https://t.co/C1xu6WkjgQ

[Red House in the Woods 🏡 @Art__Paintings]

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

A helping hand
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[currer bell ໒꒱ @lucypaulluvrr]

as much as i love the train station scene in the 2004 miniseries, north and south’s original ending brought to life in the 1975 adaptation is just as beautiful

[Alexandra Epps @ArtGuideAlex]

Morning..
#ClaireArmitage

[L.M. Montgomery 🍁 @LMMontgomeryLS]

But everything in the landscape around them spoke of autumn. The sea was roaring hollowly in the distance, the fields were bare and sere, scarfed with golden rod…and the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue

ANNE OF THE ISLAND
#LMMontgomery
🎨 Jo Grundy @jo_grundy_art

[Flamenco Nut 🍄 @flamencobug]

"Avalek (Fairy Play)" #illustration #art by Theodor Severin Kittelsen (1857–1914, Norwegian) #FairyTaleTuesday

[Felfa’s Fairy Fiefdom @FelfaF]

#WordsOnWednesday
In Greek mythology the River Styx separates the Underworld and the world of the living. Charon the ferry man transports the souls of the dead across the river Styx, from this earthly world to the Underworld.
🖼️Félix Resurrección Hidalgo.

[Elsa💙🩷🩷 @ElsaMc1878]

#WordsOnWednesday
“ She turned her back upon the throne where, well she knew, the Ruler of the Dead, Lord of her body and being.” – A. D. Hope, The Return of Persephone.
Led by Hermes Persephone, Queen of the Underworld and Hades’ lover, leaves them both to return to her mother.

[Daily Dose of Art @aDose_of_Art]

The Alchemist, 1888,
by Eduard Haaga (German 1846-1911).