East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Kay Nielsen
30th May 2012✧17:1410 notes
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inspirationowls: boris zabirokhin the crone watches over us all
21st May 2012✧13:4211 notes
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merverb: Trina Schart-Hyman’s Snow White… well, Trina Schart-Hyman’s ANYTHING really - ROCKS THIS WORLD [x] SHE’S SO GREAT
13th May 2012✧18:1313 notes
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oldbookillustrations: The greater the fear, the less hope there was. Erich Schütz, from Historie von der schönen Lau (The story of Lau, the beautiful water nymph), by Eduard Friedrich Mörike, Vienna, 1921. (Source: archive.org) very dulac-esque
13th May 2012✧11:53213 notes
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illustration by Trina Schart Hyman for The Sleeping Beauty, 1977 no one does corpses caught on magical briars like she does!
12th May 2012✧18:1322 notes
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Ballet of The Snow Queen
12th May 2012✧12:483 notes
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sisterwolf: The Ascent of the Crystal Tower Illustration by H.J. Ford
9th May 2012✧08:3871 notes
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can’t get enough of the ex libris
4th May 2012✧15:3427 notes
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aubade: Heinrich Vogeler. so dark, but it looks like sleeping beauty
1st May 2012✧18:5422 notes
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i love the little sphinx here; she’s like a sphinx that’s half lady, half house cat.
28th Apr 2012✧16:4635 notes
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Opaque  by  andbamnan