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The Beauty and the Beast. Now noone is allowed to say I don't know self irony.

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It's a very popular fairytale. Title is: ‘I'M FROZEN PLEASE HELP ME, OH GOD HOW WILL I SURVIVE UNTIL SUMMER?!’

(Quote stolen from inspired by this)

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Another one from the Grimm Brothers: One-Eye, Two-Eyes and Three-Eyes.

(yes Two-Eyes accidentally became Clara Oswald but nevermind that)

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I think you get which one is that.
Also I miss the scanner so badly! :S

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A lovely short story from the Brothers Grimm: Mother Trudy (hungarian title: Boszorák).

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And for this occasion it's not an actual tale today but a fact in a tale style (bit of a Hungarian Folk Tales ripoff I know)

‘Because the speech of this country is different from that of China, it  does not match the [Chinese] letters. Therefore, even if the ignorant want to communicate, many of them in the end cannot state their concerns. Saddened by this, I have 28 letters newly made. It is my wish that all the people may easily learn these letters and that be convenient for daily use.’

(Sejong the Great)

I'm really impressed by both the letters and King Sejong's reign, and actually if it wasn't for him I wouldn't be studying Korean rigth now. For more about the subject of hangeul see this or in case of TLDR watch Tree With Deep Roots which is almost entirely fiction but anyways it's fun.

* the Korean kingdom's name at the time

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Illustration for The Three Feathers from the collection of the Brothers Grimm

If I ever had the chance to make illustrations to it, actually to make a book which contains this tale, and I was free about it, I would totally do it that way. And the other ones. I'd just like to make a book like that with various fairytales.

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This time it's a Korean folk tale, The Mud Snail Bride.

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Here have some lovely tale from the collection of the Grimm brothers: an evil stepmother chopped her stepson's head off with the top of an apple chest, then tricked her daughter into thinking that actually she killed him by slapping him hard. But not before his head fell among a great amount of shiny sweet apples.

Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite!

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Funny I chose this one last week by accident. This is an illustration for a fairytale about a soldier who gets unfairly kicked out of the army then gets back on his former boss, the king by the help of some magic lamp goblin. What you can see above is his cruel, cruel revenge: making the princess clean his boots at nights.

Itroducing… M. E. S. E. B. O. L. T.!

That is...

Making Everyone See Enchanted Books Of Lovely Tales

If you haven't noticed yet, I had come up with what might seem some quite dumb names. But in fact they work very well in Hungarian (the abbreviations) and a bit in English (the long versions) as well. So that they speak to all my followers! 

(first drawing after the break)