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I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don’t want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic.

Charles de Lint (via misswallflower)

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Troll by Kip Loades on Flickr.

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Labradorite, Amethyst, Quartz, Citrine & Obsidian

#My fairy and crystal collection from my personal blog

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Entrance to Forest Park, Portland OR

By Scott May

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Faeries Tales in Autumn © R.J. Anderson Art 2014

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Victorian fairy painting

'Fairy painting, particularly when produced in its Golden Age, between 1840 and 1870, is a peculiarly British contribution to the development of Romanticism. […] As modern industrial progress engulfed the English countryside, the Victorians embraced belief in fairies as a reaction to the disenchantment of the world […] Fairy painting is the visual evidence of a spectrum of mid-19th-century preoccupations: nationalism, antiquarianism, exploration, anthropology, the dismantling of religious belief and, crucially, the emergence of spiritualism.'

Jeremy Maas and others, Victorian Fairy Painting, exhib. catalogue (Royal Academy of Arts: Merrell Holberton, London, 1998)

John Anster Fitzgerald (1823-1906), The Fairy’s Barque, 1860 John Anster Fitzgerald, Fairy Hordes Attacking a Bat, date unknown Richard Dadd (1817-1886), Titania Sleeping, 1841 Joseph Noel Paton (1821-1901), The Reconciliation of Oberon and Titania, 1847 Edwin Landseer (1802-1873), Scene from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, Titania and Bottom, 1848-51 Richard Doyle (1824-1883), ‘The Triumphal March of the Elf King’, from In Fairyland, or Pictures from the Elf World, 1869

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Faeries are seen through the heart, not through the eyes. Remember that faeries inhabit the interior of the earth and the interior of all things, so look, in the first place, in the interior of yourself.

Brian Froud (via modernguidetothefairfolk)

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'The story without an end' from the German of Carové; translated, with preface by Sarah Austin; with illustrations by Frank C. Papé. Published 1913 by Duffield & Co., New York.

See the complete book here.