The Dark Side of Fairytales

I love these illustrations, my favourite is Beauty and the Moose

Little Red Riding Hoyt's

Faery Fashion

Changelings

The belief that faeries kidnapped mortal children and left a faery substitute in their place is a recurrent theme in folk legend. Various reasons were given for the practice: the theft of beautiful, golden-haired children was to improve the faery stock; abducted mortal children could be used instead of faery children as a tribute to Hell; or the could be set to work as servants.
When a child was born, every effort was made to prevent a faery abduction. The threat was at its greatest until the baby was christened or sometimes, just until it sneezed, and numerous spells or charms were employed to ward off faery kidnappers.
In some households, every cupboard and drawer would be locked '... for it care is not taken the faeries will get in and hide in the drawers and presses.' A live coal might be placed in the baby's first bath, while, when dressed, the infant was turned three times heels over head, blessed and then turned upside down and shaken three times.

Peter Pan

Peter Pan, the boy who could never grow up.

"It's like this." She kissed him.

Bubbles of many colours made in rainbow water

It was then that Hook bit him.

"Yo ho, yo ho, the pirate life. The flag o' skull and bones..."

Thus perished James Hook.

Starkey becomes nurse for all the papooses


I woke up this morning and read the last thirty pages of Treasure Island, which I had put away for some time. It's the first day of summer! I want to dress up like an Indian mermaid pirate faery.

Those papooses are pretty stylish.

Majicks

I finally fixed my password for my MM account today, and I was pleasantly surprised to find a friend request from Daniela, an up and coming fashion photographer from Hamilton Ontario. Amazing clothes and photos! Ultra-feminine witch queens and fairy princesses traipse through nature in her work:

"All the costumes for my photos are designed by me and hand made by my mother, and almost all of the props used are created by me" - Daniela

Genius.