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Fairies, dragons and other mythologicalcreatures
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10. The Warrior of Light Tell your heart that the fear of suf fering is worse than the suffering itself . And no heart has ever suf fered when it goes in search of it 's dream.
But there is suf fering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid...them. But it 's better to lose some of the batt les in the struggles for your dreams than to bedefeated without ever knowing what you're f ight ing for. Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can subst itute experience.
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11. I am a servant of the secret f ire, wielder of the f lame of Anor. The dark f ire will not availyou, f lame of Udûn! Go back to the shadow! You shall not pass!
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12. GANDALF THE GREY A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early; he arrives precisely when he meansto.
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14. Distances does to love what wind does to f ire; it ext inguishes the weak and feeds thestrong ♥ *•.̧ ¸.•♥•.̧ ¸.•♥•.̧ ¸♥ •.̧ ¸.•♥•.̧ ¸.•♥•.̧ ¸
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51. Those who don't believe in magic will never f ind it .
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"Two lovers went exploring inside a cave. Their village was very poor and the villagerswere starving for food and water. The two lovers had heard of the lost t reasures of thegods but no one had been able to f ind it , if these two lovers co...uld f ind such a t reasure their village problems would be solved. The odds that they couldf ind such a t reasure was against them, since so many had tried and come out withnothing or lost their lives.
As they explored the cave on the third day, they had just about given up when anearthquake occurred shaking the insides of the cave. That shakeup caused a wall of thecave to tumble! Curious they explored this now open part of the cave and discovered thetreasure of the gods! Treasure was everywhere, even on the walls! At that momentanother earthquake occurred causing a cave in and injuring the boyfriend. The girlf riendwas uninjured, but her boyfriend became unconscious. The girlf riend soon realized thatthey would die if she couldn't f ind a way out, for hours she tried to move the rocks butthey proved to heavy, she even explored further into the cave to f ind a way out butcouldn't f ind one.
She came back to her boyfriend and prepared to die with him, unt il she heard a voicecoming from a lamp. She asked the lamp what it wanted from her, the lamp replied that itneeded a host genie! In return it would let her use her new genie power only once totransport her boyfriend and treasure back to the village, but in return she would becomethe genie of the lamp, enslaved to the god that created the lamp in the f irst place forthousand years, and once that thousand years was up she would be released from thelamp. With tears in her eyes she accepts this of fer only to rescue her boyfriend and thevillage, and knowing she will never see him again."
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71. Autumn Magic.
Art by Laura Diehl.
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Tag yourself if you love snow and winter magic. ♥ *•.̧ ¸.•♥•.̧ ¸.•♥•.̧ ¸♥ •.̧ ¸.•♥•.̧ ¸.•♥•.̧ ¸
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Don't wait for that magical moment; go out and make your own magic. ♥ *•.̧ ¸.•♥•.̧ ¸.•♥•.̧ ¸♥•.̧ ¸.•♥•.̧ ¸.•♥•.̧ ¸
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If you want to promote your art , send me a photo, and link to your wesite/page/prof ile tomail [email protected]. Tit le: Fairies, dragons and other mythological creatures.Please take a note: I will post only quality mythological art , of my choice. Do not take it toheart . :)
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"My dear Frodo, you asked me once if I had told you everything about my adventures. Imay not have told you all of it…"
85. House on the tree.
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Night Fury, How to Train Your Dragon © DreamWorks Animat ion and Cressida Cowell.
87. Northern Constellat ions.. ♥
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90. The purple fairy can be found near gardens and f ields where plants of that color grow. And they may fashion them into the most lovelygarments, part of their camouf lage. Perhaps a petal or two of pansy, appliqués of violets,skirts of clem...at is or orchid. And wonderful hats, such as foxglove. Purple f ield and f lower fairies areknown to sprout masses of grasses, tendrils and t iny f lowers f rom their heads instead ofhair, not to ment ion thist le. No wonder they may be dif f icult to spot. When they are veryst ill they can look as if they are growing out of the earth right where they stand.
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91. Towers of magic.
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92. This image is the cover artwork for ‘Twisted Threads’, a fantasy novel by Ryan Kinsch.The book features both darkness and light , wolves, dreams, spirits, t rees and variousother spiritual and medieval fantasy elements.
Copyright © Mike Nashwww.mike-nash.com
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93. The lion and the unicorn Were f ight ing for the crown. The lion beat the unicorn All around the town.
Some gave them white bread,
And some gave them brown; Some gave them plum cake and drummed them out of town.
And when he had beat him out,He beat him in again;He beat him three t imes over,His power to maintain.
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95. Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe inyourself . Believe in your dreams. If you don't , who will? ♥
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96. Fact or Fict ion? - You decide! GNOME in North-European mythology, a dwarf ish imp inhabit ing the interior parts of theearth and having special custody of mineral t reasures. Bjorsen, who died in 1765, saysgnomes were common enough in the so...
uthern parts of Sweden in his boyhood, and he frequent ly saw them scampering on thehills in the evening twilight . Ludwig Binkerhoof saw three as recent ly as 1792, in the BlackForest, and Sneddeker avers that in 1803 they drove a party of miners out of a Silesianmine. Basing our computat ions upon data supplied by these statements, we f ind that thegnomes were probably ext inct as early as 1764.”
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97. ♥ Christmas and New Year Magic. ♥ is near. :) Splendid work! Love all the lit t le lights and buildings and the ef fect of light in the center ofthe town. Makes me wish I lived in a quaint cozy lit t le town like that.
The Art of Philip Straub. — with Andrea Poohpee Monteiro and 32 others.
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The best way to escape from the past is not to avoid it , forget it , or get stuck in it , but toaccept and forgive it , to move on and to f ind the freedom and happiness we all deserve. ♥
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100. The Banshee
THE Banshee means, especially, the woman of the fairy race, f rom van, "the Woman--theBeaut iful;" the same word from which comes Venus. Shiloh-Van was one of the names ofBuddha--"the son of the woman;" and some writers aver th
at in the Irish--Sullivan (Sulli-van), may be found this ancient name of Buddha.As the Leanan-Sidhe was the acknowledged spirit of life, giving inspirat ion to the poetand the musician, so the Ban-Sidhe was the spirit of death, the most weird and awful ofall the fairy powers.But only certain families of historic lineage, or persons gif ted with music and song, areattended by this spirit ; for music and poetry are fairy gif ts, and the possessors of themshow kinship to the spirit race--therefore they are watched over by the spirit of life, whichis prophecy and inspirat ion; and by the spirit of doom, which is the revealer of the secretsof death.Sometimes the Banshee assumes the form of some sweet singing virgin of the familywho died young, and has been given the mission by the invisible powers to become theharbinger of coming doom to her mortal kindred. Or she may be seen at night as ashrouded woman, crouched beneath the trees, lament ing with veiled face; or f lying past inthe moonlight , crying bit terly: and the cry of thus spirit is mournful beyond all other soundson earth, and betokens certain death to some member of the family whenever it . is heardin the silence of the night.*
The Banshee even follows the old race across the ocean and to distant. lands; for spaceand the of fer no hindrance to the myst ic power which is selected and appointed to bearthe prophecy of death to a family. Of this a well authent icated instance happened a fewyears ago, and many now living can at test the t ruth of the narrat ive.A branch of the ancient race of the O'Gradys had sett led in Canada, far removed,apparent ly, f rom all the associat ions, t radit ions, and mysterious inf luences of the old landof their fore-fathers.But one night a strange and mournful lamentat ion was heard outside the house. No wordwas ut tered, only a bit ter cry, as of one in deepest agony and sorrow, f loated through theair.Inquiry was made, but no one had been seen near the house at the t ime, though severalpersons dist inct ly heard the weird, unearthly cry, and a terror fell upon the household, as ifsome supernatural inf luence had overshadowed them.Next day it so happened that the gent leman and his eldest son went out boat ing. As theydid not return, however, at the usual t ime for dinner, some alarm was excited, andmessengers were sent down to the shore to look for them. But no t idings came unt il,precisely at the exact hour of the night when the spirit -cry had been heard the previousevening, a crowd of men were seen approaching the house, bearing with them the deadbodies of the father and the son, who had both been drowned by the accidentalupsett ing of the boat, within sight of land, but not near enough for any help to reachthem in t ime.Thus the Ban-Sidhe had fulf illed her mission of doom, af ter which she disappeared, 'andthe cry of the spirit of death was heard no more.*At t imes the spirit -voice is heard in low and soft lament ing, as if close to the window.Not long ago an ancient lady of noble lineage was lying near the death-hour in her statelycast le. One evening, af ter twilight ., she suddenly unclosed her eyes and pointed to thewindow, with a happy smile on her face. All present looked in the direct ion, but nothingwas visible. They heard, however, the sweetest music, low, sof t , and spiritual, f loat inground the house, and at t imes apparent ly close to the window of the sick room.Many of the at tendants thought it was a t rick, and went out to search the grounds; butnothing human was seen. St ill the wild plaint ive singing went on, wandering through thetrees like the night wind--a low, beaut iful music that never ceased all through the night.Next morning the noble lady lay dead; then the music ceased, and the lamentat ion f romthat hour was heard no more.*There was a gent leman also in the same country who had a beaut iful daughter, strongand healthy, and a splendid horsewoman. She always followed the hounds, and herappearance at the hunt at t racted unbounded admirat ion, as no one rode so well orlooked so beaut iful.One evening there was a ball af ter the hunt, and the young girl moved through the dancewith the grace of a fairy queen.
But that same night a voice came close to the father's window, as if the face were laidclose to the glass, and he heard a mournful lamentat ion and a cry; and the words rangout on the air--"In three weeks death; in three weeks the grave--dead--dead--dead!"Three t imes the voice came, and three t imes he heard the words; but though it . was brightmoonlight , and he looked from the window over all the park, no form was to be seen.Next day, his daughter showed symptoms of fever, and exact ly in three weeks, as theBan-Sidhe had prophesied, the beaut iful girl lay dead.The night before her death soft music was heard outside the house, though no word wasspoken by the spirit -voice, and the family said the form of a woman crouched beneath atree, with a mant le covering her head, was~ dist inct ly visible. But on approaching, thephantom disappeared, though the soft , low music of the lamentat ion cont inued t ill dawn.Then the angel of death entered the house with soundless feet, and he breathed uponthe beaut iful face of the young girl, and she rested in the sleep of the dead, beneath thedark shadows of his wings.Thus the prophecy of the Banshee came true, according to the t ime foretold by the spirit -voice.
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101. When your ♥ feels like giving up, let hope whisper one more t ime.
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A lot of things you think are important, are just urgent, but not important. Focus on whatreally matters. A phone call for example is always urgent - it rings only a few t imes and isgone, but is of ten not important. If you are in the middle of something truly important -playing with kids, being present with your loved one, - do not stop just because a sillyphone rings. Stay present with what 's important now. ♥
111. While we are sleeping, angels have conversat ions with our souls. ♥ *•.̧ ¸.•♥•.̧ ¸.•♥•.̧ ¸♥•.̧ ¸.•♥•.̧ ¸.•♥•.̧ ¸
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Neverland. ♥
113. The darkness that surrounds us cannot hurt us. It is the darkness in your own heart you
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Days begin with hopes and ends with dreams. Everyday starts with some expectat ion butsurely ends with some experience-that 's life!
124. It 's easy to be wrong, don't judge by appearances. You don't really know me, there is a t ree in my heart . Sheltered behind its leaves, you can f ind shy notes, And if you gather them, you can hear me breathing.
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125. Arthur Herbert Buckland (1870-1927), "The Fairy and the Beet le", 1922.
Painter of romant ic landscape subjects, genre and portraits; illustrator.
Born at Taunton; studied art at the Academie Julian in Paris. Exhibit ion 1895-1927 at theR.
A. and also at the R.I., R.B.A., R.O.I. and Paris Salon. "Valley of Flowers", R. A. 1897, wasone of his best known works. He had an exhibit ion in 1895 at the Royal Academy inLondon and a year later at the Paris Salon des Art istes Francis in Paris.
"Mr. Arthur Buckland's "Valley of Flowers" is of the order of romant ic landscape; a forestglade, in which rhododendrons, along with many colored wild f lowers are conspicuous,being the background for his subject . 'She placed a crown of gold upon my head whichbrought forgetfulness of all things'- a richly robed knight kneels at the feet of a statelywoodland nymph, and if a few discordant notes of color are struck, there is no lack ofspirit and grace in the canvas".
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133. Let 's f ly!!!!!
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134. Guardianship.
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135. The death of Glaurung.
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136. From a top her cast le in the great mountains she roams downward. Walking the Earth togreet the changing seasons. She knows it is t ime for the great change! The colors are ofbrowns, reds, and oranges of Autumn, but the t rees are becoming s...lowly dormant.
As she gracefully walks, no, glides across the leaf f illed meadows her dress becomes thesnow and drapes the land with Winter. However, she greets every t raveler with a smile andevery animal with a hug. Although her skin is pale and frozen she has a bright heart andgives them gif ts of warmth and love. "Although it is my duty to change this old season"she said, "No one shall go without the small pleasures of comfort".
She passes two young, small deer and pets them soft ly, their heart 's already growingstronger. They gave each other deer kisses and knew that everything would be alright . For
it is the duty of the Arct ic Queen, who is the keeper of this season, to protect her landsand everything within them.
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137. Red wizard.
Art by Fred Fields.
138. While many viewed dragons as a symbol of the Devil, the Western dragon, four-leggedand winged, is a very common symbol on crests. This can be explained by history, forUther Pendragon, the father of legendary King Arthur, had the symbol of ...the dragon on his crest .
Keen sight, power, and fearsomeness are usually connected to dragons. Treasure is alsothought of when Western dragons are imagined. Thus, dragons obviously symbolizedpowerful, wealthy people who guarded their wealth keenly.
Dragons were quite common in heraldry, only second to the wyvern. Some of these havebeen given to those who have slain a dragon. For instance, Sir Moris Berkeley's coat ofarms was changed af ter he slew the Bistern Dragon.
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The squeals and giggles grew as they played without a f rown.
Sliding down the perfect hills - a children's paradise;
No thought of clearing their white souff le, no thought of chopping ice.
My f ingers, ears and toes felt f rozen as I shovelled the mountain of snow
But my heart was warm and light as the laughter cont inued to grow.
Winter is for children; I'm sure of that today.
This is the season they tumble and laugh and truly love to play.
Computers are forgotten and they only see the snow;
Imaginat ions leap and soar - this is how lit t le minds grow.
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141. Never give up!!! There is no such thing as an ending just a beaut iful new beginning. ♥ ♥ ♥♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
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If you cont inue to f ight with no strength lef t , you are much stronger than you thought.
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146. The Unicorn - The beaut iful white horse with the magical horn that heals.‘Then God told Adam to name the animals.All the creatures gathered around ..... and the f irst animal he named unicorn.’ " -~ f rom the Hokham Bible
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147. "Dreams are the playground of unicorns."
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Paradise. So many dragons. ♥
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149. CASTLE ON THE CLIFF.
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150. The Seven Dragons and Other Stories By Edith Nesbit[1899, 1900, 1925]ht tp://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/f f8/dragons.htm
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163. "You desire to t ime and space-travel? Then just read a good book..."
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164. Everybody goes through their own storms, remember this; it can't rain forever.
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171. When once you have tasted f light , you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turnedskyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. ~Leonardo DaVinci
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"Wisdom and Magic can incarnate in all shapes - f rom the most Ethereal to the mostColossal, f rom the daint iest Sylph to the Purest Flame..."
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Earth Wizard.
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175. The best thing about books is you get to disappear into a world you've only dreamed ofgoing to. :)
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176. Resurrect ion of the dark Dragon © Perla Marinahttp://perlamarina.deviantart .com/
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178. A Dryad is a female t ree nymph/spirit f rom Greek Mythology. They are symbolic of natureand nurturers of the forest . They tend to live within the most secluded of woodland witha water source close by. Dryads are extraordinarily shy and you...are unlikely to see one. Unless, of course, you stumble across her asleep in the warmth ofwaning sunlight .
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180. "In the end, all we have are memories; make as many as you can.”
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181. We are the many-born. We are the immortal. We have been known by many namesthroughout the ages, though few have understood the truth of our existence.
Endlessly, we die and are reborn, changed yet unchanging throughout the ages. We movef
rom lifet ime to lifet ime, taking up bodies as garments.
We are watchers and we are wanderers.
We seek knowledge and understanding above all.
Long ago we strove the sunder the life of our body from our roving minds, for it groundedus. It held us back. It bound us to a single span of days. Through a ritual of death andrebirth, we severed our living t ies and gained immortality.
Now we are f reed of the life of the body, but we are irrevocably t ied to the life we cutaway. It sustains us and empowers us.
We thirst for life and we feed upon it .
It is our greatest weakness and our greatest prize.
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182. "Where there is Joy, Laughter and Colour, Fairies will be found!" .
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184. “Don’t you wish you could have the fairies’ day – just laugh and dance and sing and play!” ~ Mary Jac
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185. Depicts a scene in J.R.R. Tolkien's Two Towers, where Merry and Pippin visit Treebeard'shome and they share some stories and news. (:
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214. Be thankful for the count less things in your life you usually take for granted. Your sight,hearing, the joy of smelling your morning coffee or perhaps the ability to love and beloved. All the special things in life come from God. Today is a wonderful day to live inthankfulness for the blessings you receive.
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Unicorn Chess Set
217. Unicorn blood is a thick, silvery substance that runs within a unicorn's veins. The blood ofa unicorn can be drunk in order to keep a person alive. However, the act of slaying aunicorn will cause the drinker to suf fer a cursed life though the specif ics of what thisactually entails are unknown.
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Pract ice listening to your inner guidance that lives deep within your being. Your innerknowing will help you make the right choices, and your choices feel good when they areright .
219. The Songs In The NightAs We Dance 'Round The FlameThe Fairy Nightsongs Are Never The SameThe Words From Our Lips As We Sing For The NightImpart To The Fay Our Hearts Truest Sight
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220. Stormbreakers are coming.
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221. Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
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Scient ists say you can't snore and dream at the same t ime.
Good news: if you wake up feeling like you had a wild night of dreaming, you don't have toworry about having annoyed your partner beside you all night long. :)
223. Time is the longest distance between two places.
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224. The Snow Queen is a fairy tale by Hans Christ ian Andersen. The tale was f irst published in1845, and centers on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by a lit t le boyand girl, Kai and Gerda.
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225. Santa's Workshop or Santa's Grotto, is the workshop where Santa Claus makes the toysand presents given out at Christmas. In Santa Claus mythology, the workshop is asprawling complex located at the North Pole. In addit ion to housing the fa...ctory where toys are either manufactured or distributed by the elves, the complex alsohouses the residence of Santa Claus, his wife, and all of the reindeer. In the 20th century it became common during December in large shops or departmentstores to have a "cavern" in which an actor dressed up as Santa Claus would give gif ts tochildren. Grottos can be large-walk through fantasy cavern-like areas incorporat inganimatronic characters such as elfs and pantomime characters. This t radit ion started inBritain in 1879 and then extended in the 1890s to Australian and American departmentstores seeking to at t ract customers. The world's f irst Christmas grot to was in Lewis's Bon Marche Department Store inLiverpool. The grot to was opened in 1879, ent it led "Christmas Fairyland". Manygenerat ions of people across Britain f irst visited Father Christmas here and it is a t radit ionwhich is carried on by Lewis's to this day. In 1879, Thomas Nast revealed to the world in a series of drawings that Santa'sWorkshop is at the North Pole (specif ically the North Magnet ic Pole, due to the auroraborealis being centered around it and the fact that the workshop was on land, propert iesthat at the t ime described the magnet ic pole [which was under the Canadian Arct icArchipelago at the t ime; the magnet ic pole has since drif ted of f to sea] but not thegeographic one). Each of the countries of Scandinavia also claims Santa's workshop to be located on theirterritories. Norway claims he lives in Drøbak. In Denmark, he is said to live in Greenland
(near Uummannaq). In Sweden, the town of Mora has a theme park named "Tomteland".The nat ional postal terminal in Tomteboda in Stockholm receives children's let ters forSanta. In Finland, Korvatunturi has long been known as Santa's home, and two themeparks, Santa Claus Village and Santa Park are located near Rovaniemi.
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226. Believe that life is the journey between who you were, and who you are meant to be. Thechoices you make and the chances you take.
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227. Magic is believing in yourself , if you can do that, you can make anything happen. ♥
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Arwen: From the ashes, a f ire shall be woken. A light f rom the shadow shall spring.Renewed shall be blade that was broken. The crownless again shall be king.
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231. It all began with the forging of the Great Rings. Three were given to the Elves; immortal,wisest and fairest of all beings. Seven, to the Dwarf Lords, great miners and craf tsmen ofthe mountain halls. And nine, nine rings were gif ted to th...e race of Men, who above all else desire power. For within these rings was bound thestrength and the will to govern over each race. But they were all of them deceived, foranother ring was made. In the land of Mordor, in the f ires of Mount Doom, the Dark LordSauron forged in secret , a master ring, to control all others. And into this ring he poured allhis cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life. One ring to rule them all. One by one,the free peoples of Middle Earth fell to the power of the Ring. But there were some whoresisted. A last alliance of men and elves marched against the armies of Mordor, and onthe very slopes of Mount Doom, they fought for the f reedom of Middle-Earth. Victorywas near, but the power of the ring could not be undone. It was in this moment, when allhope had faded, that Isildur, son of the king, took up his father's sword. And Sauron,enemy of the f ree peoples of Middle-Earth, was defeated. The Ring passed to Isildur, whohad this one chance to destroy evil forever, but the hearts of men are easily corrupted.And the ring of power has a will of its own. It betrayed Isildur, to his death. And somethings that should not have been forgotten were lost . History became legend. Legendbecame myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of allknowledge. Unt il, when chance came, the ring ensnared a new bearer. The ring came tothe creature Gollum, who took it deep into the tunnels under the Misty Mountains, andthere it consumed him. The ring gave to Gollum unnatural long life. For f ive hundred yearsit poisoned his mind; and in the gloom of Gollum's cave, it waited. Darkness crept backinto the forests of the world. Rumor grew of a shadow in the East, whispers of a
nameless fear, and the Ring of Power perceived. Its t ime had now come. It abandonedGollum. But then something happened that the Ring did not intend. It was picked up bythe most unlikely creature imaginable. A hobbit , Bilbo Baggins, of the Shire. For the t imewill soon come when hobbits will shape the fortunes of all...
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232. We are all visitors to this t ime, this place - we are just passing through. Our purpose hereis to observe, to learn, to grow, to love...and then we return home.
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233. Your past is your lesson. Your present is your gif t . Your future is your mot ivat ion.
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237. I'm sure everyone in a childhood have a dream about f lying.. but when we grow up somethings pull us down.. away from the sky and our clear dreams.. money, death, lack of t ime.. everlast ing textbooks stat ing the obvious.. my dream is to lea...ve all this behind and being free.
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238. “Learning to read is to light a f ire, every syllable that is read is a spark.” - Victor Hugo
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239. The Birth of a Faerie.
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251. Dragonsblood (Pern) In Dragon’s Kin, bestselling author Anne McCaffrey did the unthinkable: for the f irst t imeever, she invited another writer to join her in the skies of her most famous f ict ionalcreat ion. That writer was her son, Todd Mc...Caffrey. Together, they penned a t riumphant new chapter in the annals of theextraordinarily popular Dragonriders of Pern. Now, for the f irst t ime, Todd McCaffrey f liesalone. And Dragonsblood is proof that the future of Pern is in good hands. After all,dragons are in his blood. . . .
Never in the dramat ic history of Pern has there been a more dire emergency than thatwhich faces the young dragonrider Lorana. A mysterious fatal illness is striking dragons.The epidemic is spreading like wildf ire . . . and the next deadly cycle of Threadfall is onlydays away. Somehow, Lorana must f ind a cure before the dragons–including her ownbeloved Arith–succumb to the sickness, leaving Pern undefended.
The lyrics of an all-but-forgotten song seem to point toward an answer f rom nearly f ivehundred years in the past, when Kit t i Ping and her daughter Wind Blossom bred the f irstdragons from their smaller cousins, the f ire-lizards. No doubt the f irst colonists possessedthe advanced technology to f ind the cure for which Lorana seeks, but over the centuries,that knowledge has been lost .Or has it?
For in the distant past, an aged Wind Blossom worries that the germs that af fect the f ire-lizards may one day turn on larger prey–and unleash a plague that will destroy the
dragons, Pern’s only defenders against Thread. But as her people struggle to survive,Wind Blossom has neither the t ime nor the resources to expend on a future that maynever arrive–unt il suddenly she uncovers evidence that her worst fears will come true.
Now two brave women, separated by hundreds of years but joined by bonds transcendingt ime, will become unknowing allies in a desperate race against sickness and Threadfall,with nothing less than the survival of all life on Pern at stake.
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277. Always have a dream. When you stop dreaming you stop living.
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25. Put your faith, and not your fears, in charge. Courage isn’t the absence of fears but howyou wrest le with them.
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26. O the sky grey orange An the walls stained blue An I laid right down on the golden sat in with you Into sween dark circles of beaut iful eyes,
I go round, o lord, I go round.
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27. Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a f lower.
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32. This is the cover art for JL Fet jaine's book "elf 's hour".
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35. Rainbows are fairies and angels blowing kisses n saying hello.
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To open your heart to the fairies, you must nurture these feelings of wonder, reverenceand love for every detail of your garden, for the airs which blow about it , the musical rainwhich falls gent ly upon it , the moon and the stars which silent ly look down on it , the greatsun which is the source of its being and for the clouds and changing skies which provide itwith a canopy. When you truly feel the sweetness of this magic, you will begin to discoverthe fairies, for they will make themselves know to you.
60. They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called a fairy-ring. For weeksafterward you can see the ring on the grass. It is not there when they begin, but theymake it by waltzing round and round. Sometimes you will f ind mushr...ooms inside the ring, and these are fairy chairs that the servants have forgotten to clearaway. The chairs and the rings are the only tell-tale marks these lit t le people leave behindthem, and they would remove even these were they not so fond of dancing that they toeit t ill the very moment of the opening of the gates. Sir James M. Barrie
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*~The World Is Very Old, But Every Spring It Groweth Young Again. And Fairies Sing~*
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65. Sometimes a break from your rout ine is the very thing you need. Try something new. Dosomething fun. Be adventurous. These breaks can bring renewed energy into your workand your life.
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The woods are full of fairies! The trees are alive: The river overf lows with them. See howthey dip and dive! What funny lit t le fellows! What dainty lit t le dears! They dance and leap,and prance and peep, And ut ter fairy cheers!
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"Welcome, children, to the Undertree Inn. Where you can play and party all night long,without adults to say "don't do this", "don't do that" or "go to bed". When you're t ired,comfortable beds are already prepared at the second f loor. Enjo...y yourself , don't mind the screams you heard at night. When morning come, the caretakerwill escort what 's lef t of you to the edge of the forest . It will be an experience you'll neverforget."
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74. The Minotaur is the monstrous son of a white bull, sent by Poseidon and Pasiphae, thewife of the Crete king, Minos. The child was born with the body of a man and the head ofa bull, and was named Minotaur (Minos' Bull).
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ach year on seven boys and seven girls, who were sent as a t ribute by the Athenians. Tostop these sacrif ices, the hero Thesus entered the Labyrinth where the Minotaur livedand killed it . Thesus was aided by Minos' daughter, Ariadne, who gave him a sword to slaythe beast, and a ball of thread which he could unravel through the maze so he could f indhis way out.
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75. "The balcony overlooking the sea was of ten visited by many people. Lovers declare theirpromise, scholars vowed their dreams, priests swore their oath, art ists and poets lookingfor inspirat ion f rom the beaut iful sunset.
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re their dreams also took their life here when they failed or heartbroken, jumping from thebalcony to the sea below.
Even though the suicide rate is high, the place was st ill famous and considered romant ic.
Hence, it named The Balcony of Distant Dream. Where dream started and end."
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76. People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of part icles.Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns andlost hopes.
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77. When you have love, don’t ask for anything else…you already have everything. ♥
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78. If we open our minds to enjoyment, we might f ind t ranquil pleasures spread about us onevery side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with thefairies who wait on every f lower or every cloud.
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79. And as the seasons come and go, here's something you might like to know. There arefairies everywhere: under bushes, in the air, playing games just like you play, singingthrough their busy day. So listen, touch, and look around - in the air and on the ground.And if you watch all nature's things, you might just see a fairy's wing.
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80. Weird looking big-headed birds and the woodland gnome.
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81. Few humans see fairies or hear their music, but many f ind fairy rings of dark grass,scattered with toadstools, lef t by their dancing feet.
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Once upon a t ime, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. Thatwas before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeat ing my art and myeveryday existence, causing glorious havoc.
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Gaia, the beaut iful, rose up,Broad blossomed, she that is the steadfast baseOf all things. And fair Gaia f irst boreThe starry Heaven, equal to herself ,To cover her on all sides and to beA home forever for the blessed Gods.
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86. ❈ Don't wait for that magical moment; go out and make your own magic. ❈
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106. This world, af ter all our science and sciences, is st ill a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable,magical and more, to whosoever will think of it .
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120. This is the cover art for "The Crown Conspiracy" by Michael J Sullivan.
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121. This is the cover art for the second book of "Dying earth" by Jack Vance in its French newedit ion by Pygmalion.
This t ime you can see Rhialto in his Library...
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122. Who was born f irst , you or the world? As long as you give f irst place to the world, you arebound by it ; once you realize, beyond all t race of doubt, that the world is in you and notyou in the world, you are out of it . Of course your body remains in the world and of theworld, but you are not deluded by it .
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Up there is where the magic lives.
Where magic lives, sweet children play;
They laugh and sing and play all day, Minds like sponges, hearts like sieves; Where children are, the magic lives.
Where magic lives, birds always sing,There’s just one season, that is Spring;When one is slighted, one forgives,No troubled hearts where magic lives.
Where magic lives, God sits on high,Wait ing in sweet by-and-by;God never takes; He only gives,From heaven, where the magic lives.
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137. Dreaming of f iref lies last night She felt happy just to be Witness to a faerie f light An enchant ing sight to see * Their color was astounding ...They shone yellow, like the sun Flut tering in sky, abounding She loved them, everyone * Flying pixies, lanterns glowing Each one, a wish fulf illed Part of her, aware and knowing They could only stay unt il * Slumber’s hold grew weak and frail Forgoing magic for the dawn When the night begins to pale Firef ly faeries are all gone * Within their realm, but for a t ime Where rules cabbages and kings
Entertained by her own mind She, too, had faerie wings.
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138. The second star to the right shines with a light so rare, and if it 's Never Land you need, it 'slight will lead you there. All it takes is faith and trust , and just a lit t le bit of pixie dust."
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d the home of the fairies just behind the beaut iful waterfall, where everything becomesmagical. You'll f ind an endless secret valley surrounded by mountains - you'll f ind PixieHollow!
In the heart of Pixie Hollow, you'll f ind the Pixie Dust t ree. The tree started to glow whenthe f irst fairy appeared, and it hasn't stopped glimmering to this day. Pixie Dust f lut tersendlessly f rom the beaut iful t ree. When a new fairy is born in Pixie Hollow, she iswelcomed by the other fairies. Each fairy has her own special talent, and she makes herhome in the shelter of the Pixie Dust t ree; it is the home of all fairies.
Fairies are born when a baby laughs for the f irst t ime. And...because fairies and childrenare bound to each other by belief , it 's important that children believe in fairies. You see...if
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Amazing Efteling Theme Park, Netherlands.
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Galadriel: I give you the light of Eärendil our most beloved star. May it be a light to you indark places when all other lights go out.
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188. In Roman mythology, fauns are place-spirits (genii) of untamed woodland. Romansconnected their fauns with the Greek satyrs, wild and orgiast ic drunken followers ofBacchus (Greek Dionysus). However, they have nothing in common. Fauns and s...atyrs were originally quite dif ferent creatures. Now, both have horns and both resemblegoats below the waist , humans above; but originally satyrs had human feet, faunsgoat like hooves. The Romans also had a god named Faunus and goddess BonaDea(female faun), who, like the fauns, were goat-people. The faun loves to dance andplay the f lute.
Their habitats are forests and caves.
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190. This is an illustrat ion to the story "Tributary to Nebelring" of Russian fantasy writer VeraKamsha.
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191. This image is inspired by the very good fantasy series "The Glimpse of Etherna". They arefour ancient gods, nearly forgotten, but one day they return as the autumn hunters...
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192. Beaut iful, colorful and warm autumn.
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195. "She comes from the same gene pool as the Red Queen. She really likes the dark side,but she's so scared of going too far into it that she's made everything appear very lightand happy." --Anne Hathaway
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A Mermaid
Date: 1900
Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 98 x 67 cm Locat ion: Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
This paint ing was Waterhouse's diploma work for the Royal Academy.
A mermaid (masculine Merman) was a fabled marine creature with the head and upperbody of a human being and the tail of a f ish. Similar divine or semidivine beings appear inancient mythologies (e.g., the Chaldean sea god Ea, or Oannes). In European folklore,mermaids (sometimes called sirens) and mermen were natural beings who, like fairies, hadmagical and prophet ic powers. They loved music and of ten sang. Though very long-lived,they were mortal and had no souls.
Many folktales record marriages between mermaids (who might assume human form) andmen. In most, the man steals the mermaid's cap or belt , her comb or mirror. While theobjects are hidden she lives with him; if she f inds them she returns at once to the sea. Insome variants the marriage lasts while certain agreed-upon condit ions are fulf illed, and itends when the condit ions are broken.
Though sometimes kindly, mermaids and mermen were usually dangerous to man. Theirgif ts brought misfortune, and, if of fended, the beings caused f loods or other disasters.To see one on a voyage was an omen of shipwreck. They sometimes lured mortals todeath by drowning, as did the Lorelei of the Rhine, or ent iced young people to live withthem underwater, as did the mermaid whose image is carved on a bench in the church ofZennor, Cornwall, Eng.
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199. a lit t le f ruit dragon - roughly the size of a peach. Small but st ill very f lammable!
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201. Troll Trolls are monsters that come from Scandinavian myths and Nordic fantasy. Trolls arecalled Trows in myths f rom the Shet lands. Trolls are not especially intelligent and are
often associated with an element. The most common descript ion...of Trolls is a tough ugly creature with tough rock like skin. Trolls have the powers toregenerate even if hacked apart . The only way to stop a Troll regenerat ing is burning themonster. Trolls diet is unusual, as they will eat anything including metal, bone, wood androcks. The stomachs of t rolls contain very powerful digest ive acids. This has led Trolls toan unpleasant form of at tack of vomit ing over their target; this is an extremely painfulat tack. Sometimes Trolls use basic hand weapons such as clubs or large stones.
Art by Matt ias Fahlberg.
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202. During middle ages, especially f rom 15th to 17th century, Europe was under the darkshadow of ignorance and superst it ions. Towns were underdeveloped and people livednear woods. The fear of wolves was like a nightmare. Their at tacks were so...f requent and atrocious in nature that people even feared to t ravel f rom one place toanother. Every morning, countryside people would f ind half -eaten human limbs scatteredon their f ields.
The f irst recorded Werewolf sight ing took place around the countryside of German townColongne and Bedburg in 1591. An age-old pamphlet describes those shivering momentsvividly. Few people cornered a large wolf and set their dogs upon it . They started to pierceit with sharp st icks and spears. Surprisingly the ferocious wolf did not run away or t ried toprotect itself , rather it stood up and turned out to be a middle-aged man he was Peter
Stubbe from the same village.
Stubbe was put on a torture wheel where he confessed sixteen murders including twopregnant women and thirteen children. The history behind his downfall was rather bizarre.He had started to pract ice sorcery when he was only 12 and was so obsessed with it thateven tried to make a pact with the Devil. Wearing a magic girdle he started to at tack hisenemies, real or imaginary. Af ter several months, he would take the guise of a wolf andcont inued with his evil acts with more brutality. In the wolf form he used to tear up vict ims’throats and suck warm blood from veins. Gradually his thirst for blood grew and heroamed around f ields in search of prey.
The savagery of his crimes was beyond imaginat ion. The trial record mot ioned few ofthem. Once two men and a woman were walking along a road that went through theforest Stubbe used to hide in. He called one of them into the forest . When the man didnot return for a long t ime the second one followed his t rail and also disappeared into theforest . When both the man didn't return for a long t ime the woman ran for her life. Later,two mangled male corpses were recovered from the forest , but the woman’s body neverreappeared. It was believed that Stubbe had devoured it all. Young girls playing togetheror milking the cows in the f ields were his f requent vict ims. He used to chase them like ahound, catch the slowest one, rape and kill her. Then he would drink hot blood and eattender f lesh from her body. However; the most gruesome sin he commit ted was upon hisown son. He took him to a nearby forest , cracked the poor child’s skull open and ate brainfrom it .
No punishment could match the magnitude of Stubbe’s crime. His f lesh was pulled of fwith red-hot pincer, his arms and legs were broken and he was f inally decapitated. Hiscarcass was burned to ashes.
The Magistrate of Bedburg built a grim monument remembering the ghast ly incident.Workmen put the torture wheel atop a tall pole with Stubbe’s head above it structuredwith the likeliness of a wolf . Sixteen pieces of yard long wood cuts were hung from the rimof the wheel commemorat ing poor souls of the vict ims. The words of Stubbe’s t rial andexecut ion spread across the lands in no t ime. His brutality, atrocity and savagery werebeyond human comprehension and was readily related with the behavior of a wolf . Peoplestarted to believe that such individuals with the shadow of wolves were living amongthem. They named them Werewolves.
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205. Dream and Believe, ref lect within you, and f ind peace, with Magic that lives, in your heart .♥
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Owls are known to stay awake at night. Why? Because they have coffee and internet!(Spiders are not just for decorat ion, they provide connect ion).
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211. It 's late and we are sleepy, The air is cold and st ill. Our jack-o-lantern grins at us Upon the window sill. We're stuf fed with cake and candy And we've had a lot of fun, ...But now it 's t ime to go to bed And dream of all we've done. We'll dream of ghosts and goblins And of witches that we've seen, And we'll dream of t rick-or-t reat ing On this happy Halloween.
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The skeletons are out tonight,they march about the street,With bony bodies, bony headsand bony hands and feet.Bony bony bony boneswith nothing in between,Up and down and all aroundthey march on Halloween.
216. Tonight is the night When dead leaves f ly Like witches on switches Across the sky, When elf and sprite Flit through the night ...On a moony sheen.
Tonight is the nightWhen leaves make a soundLike a gnome in his homeUnder the ground,When spooks and trollsCreep out of holes
Mossy and green.
Tonight is the nightWhen pumpkins stareThrough sheaves and leavesEverywhere,When ghoul and ghostAnd goblin hostDance round their queen.It 's Halloween.
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217. All women are angels, break their wings and they will cont inue to f ly, usually on abroomst ick. They're just f lexible like that. :)
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