When Pigskin Hood asks for the celestial gown her dead mother advises, her father only becomes “more amorous”—Oh no. But when she dons the pigskin hood, he drives her away in disgust—Whew! #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess 🎨Daniel Ridgeway Knight

Thank you to everyone who bought my #GooseGirl inspired #shortstory this summer! Profits from Jewels & Honey went to The Bee Conservancy. Still need your copy? Check out lissasloan.com to find out how to get a free, illustrated pdf! #givingtuesday #fairytales #folklore #tellthebees #savethebees

This is my way of saying thank you for supporting a small business this year! Check out lissasloan.com for details! #Cinderella #GooseGirl #brothersgrimm #fairytales #folkloreandfairytales #healing #glassslipper #HappyEverAfter #transformation #tellthebees #folklore

Want to avoid the usual big sellers this holiday season? I've got options. You can even buy my #Cinderella continuation Glass and Feathers straight from me! lissasloan.com/glass-and-fe...

Happy Holidays, friends! May you find magic, hope, and sweetness wherever you are! ❤ 📸 Me #folklore #folkloreandfairytales #fairytales #everydaymagic #seenonmywalk

I can't wait to settle in with a cuppa and this gorgeous short story collection, The Tapestry Unravels by friend and fellow Fairy Godparent, @lwadewrites1066.bsky.social ! #BookMail #fairytales #folkloreandfairytales #folklore

You KNOW Donkeyskin's creepy, greedy dad wants her more than anything when he agrees to kill his favorite donkey to get her compliance. Why? Because it…um…excretes gold. #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #donkeyskin #fairytales #folklore #notdisneyprincess 🎨Gustave Fraipont

Hares are nocturnal and active at night, leading to their association with the moon and lunar deities like Cerridwen and Andraste. Like the moon, the hare was believed to die each day and be reborn each night, making it a powerful symbol of immortality and rebirth. Art my own. #FolkyFriday #Folklore

by Edward Gorey

As of now, I'm caught up posting my latest published work on my website, featuring #stories and #poems from World Weaver Press, Eternal Haunted Summer, Corvid Queen, and Fairy TaleMagazine, each with a little watercolor by me. #fairytales #folkloreandfairytales lissasloan.com/published-wo...

La Giorgia dons an especially gruesome disguise (hint: she buys it from a grave digger) & the palace geese let the prince know she’s more lively than she appears. #AnotherCinderella #fairytales #catskin #folkloreandfairytales #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess 🎨Pierre-Charles Comte

While you're at @shepherdbooks.bsky.social, you can choose your own list and get customized book recommendations! #fairytales #folkloreandfairytales #dreams #selkies #GooseGirl @shvetathakrar.com @kellyjarviswriter.bsky.social track.pstmrk.it/3s/shepherd....

Mona Caterina's old lady/fairy helper gives her an old woman disguise. But the King guesses the secret of his "mature" goose girl when he spies on her bathing after her geese sing of her beauty. #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess #fairytales #catskin 🎨Ary Scheffer

I'm so excited that my East of the Sun, West of the Moon #poem Troll Bride | True Bride: On Removing Three Drops of Wax from a Fine Linen Shirt appears in Fairy Tale Magazine's #Troll Issue. Get your copy here: www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/the-tro... #fairytales #folkloreandfairytales

Pellicciotto isn’t fleeing a creepy father, just off to seek her fortune. Fairy Godmother says dress like a man and cover up with a fur cloak & the King of Portugal calls her Ugly-Skin. #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess #fairytales 🎨Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale

Look what arrived, just in time for #FolkloreThursday! Very excited to read this!

Susan Wowan, a witch from Bewdley, Worcs, was said to be so wicked that she had horns growing out of the back of her head. These were shed every three years. A Mr.Soley of Sandbourne had one tipped with silver and another was sent to the Ashmolean Museums, Oxford. #wyrdwednesday #LegendaryWednesday

Fairy Tale Magazine and I go way, way back. In fact, back when it was still Enchanted Conversation, FTM's resident fairy godmother & then editor @fairytalecrone.bsky.social was the first to publish my work. That #poem , Red Cape, & many others are free to read at lissasloan.com #poetry #moodboard

Very excited to listen to this one!

🌳🏹🌳Little John - as an aspect of the Green Man #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday #RobinOfSherwood #RobinHood

This princess’s governess advises she procure an all-white horse for her eventual disguise as an “ugly beast” (the sweet nickname Prince Charming calls her). She prefers he call her Maria Wood. #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess 🎨 Charles Édouard Boutibonne

So excited that my poem, Troll Bride | True Bride: On Removing Three Drops of Wax from a Fine Linen Shirt will be included in The Troll Issue from The Fairy TaleMagazine! It's coming soon! #fairytales #folkloreandfairytales #folklore #eastofthesunwestofthemoon #trolls #truebride #animalgroom

The emperor has no clothes. Speak up! #NoKings

In honor of #NoKingsDay I had to share this gem by Czech artist Cyril Bouda. Be safe, everyone! 🎨 Cyril Bouda #NoKings #wethepeople #theemperorsnewclothes #hanschristianandersen #speakup #speakout #speakyourtruth #fairytales #folkloreandfairytales

Croak, croak

The 10 spookiest walks you can take around the UK this Halloween - if you dare www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/travel/hallo...

When this heroine gets her gowns & makes her disguise of pigskin, she flees her father in an invisible flying chest then minds the fowls while the prince threatens to beat her. Um… #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #fairytales #catskin #notdisneyprincess 🎨Marie Francois Firmin-Girard

Tomorrow kicks off #PoemsAbout #BreakTheMould. Be ready to go loud. No early posts—Friday to Thursday only. Break format, break silence. Tag it right. Use Alt Text. Get sharp prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

Love this art! 🖤🖤🖤

In Popeljuha Zavaljuha the king promised his dying wife he'll only remarry a woman who fits her ring. The unlucky winner is her daughter (who escapes & claims her chosen mate by giving him…half a ring). #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess #folklore 🎨August Bourotte

I'm so proud to have my poem You Hunt Me appearing in The Otherworld Magazine along with a delightfully vengeful story by Alison Weber and a fascinating #blackshuck essay by @lwadewrites1066.bsky.social and many more immersive #wildhunt works! theotherworldmagazine.substack.com/p/the-wild-h...

To avoid marrying her father, this heroine takes her dead mother’s advice & asks him for an impossible, celestial gown. But with the Devil’s aid, he pulls it from a nutshell. #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #fairytales #folkloreandfairytales #notdisneyprincess 🎨Arthur Rackham

It's #autumn at last! I'm delighted that my poem You Hunt Me is appearing in The Wild Hunt issue from The Otherworld Magazine! The #illustration is mine. A new picture for an old #poem written after my mom's death. Read it at the-otherworld-magazine.kit.com #wildhunt #folkloreandfairytales

After over 100 more traditional #Cinderella tales, I’m shifting to ATU 510B tales for a while, starting with The Princess in the Catskins. Get ready for icky dads, celestial gowns in nutshells, & wild disguises! #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess 🎨Arthur Rackham

Have you made your list of 3 Favorite Reads from 2024 on #shepherd.com ? Once you do, they send you #bookrecs based on the books you love most! What could be better? #daughteroftheforest #julietmarillier #booklover❤️ shepherd.com/bboy/2024/f/...

What a treat to receive a card from Old Fox (in an envelope decorated by Wolf)! @annelouiseavery.bsky.social 's world is so inspiring for my next project--and such a lovely, comforting place to escape into. ☺️❤️

I'm loving being a Patreon supporter of Old Fox and friends, and of course, their creator, @annelouiseavery.bsky.social 🦊🐺

This wiley youngest daughter of a king so poor that the queen abandons the princesses Hansel and Gretel-style not only gets them out of their plight, but kills two giants in the process! #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess 🎨John Bauer

So beautiful!!

#BookMail!! When I bought this copy of Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance by @janeharrington.bsky.social , I planned to give it as a gift and buy the audiobook for myself. Which I still will do. But obviously I need my own print copy too because look at the gorgeousness!!! #fairytales #feminism

No invite to the ball? No worries! Grab your free copy of my subversive #Cinderella continuation before the stroke of midnight on August 24! www.amazon.com/Glass-Feathe...

When Mjadveig’s prince finds out her stepsister is impersonating her, he turns her into a #troll, kills her & feeds her to her mother (who turns into a troll before he blows her up). Let’s just say he’s nonplussed. #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess 🎨Gustaf Tenggren

Filming "Bjorn the Headless Ghost" who walks the Lakeland Fells with a sack of cats. I write about him in my: "Folklore of the Lake District" bardofcumberland.com/folklore/ #bookologythursday #folklorethursday

A bee working the heather in the Wicklow mountains last w/e 💜 In folklore it was said that bees sought out heather-laden areas, knowing that it made especially flavoursome honey ✨️🐝💫 #insectthursday #folklorethursday #nature #photography #hiking #spéirghorm #wildflowers #pollination #ireland

As an American, I have a lot of reasons to not have faith in humanity right now. But then something happens like taking my car in for a repair and not only did they fix it, they fixed another issue I didn't know about - all for free. Shop local. I am now a customer for life.

Here's another #neighborhoodmagic portal, possibly just to another neighborhood, but you decide! 🪞 #fairytales #folklore #storyprompt #folkloreandfairytales #mirrormirror #everydaymagic

How have I never done #MoodboardMonday for my #Cinderella continuation, Glass and Feathers?! #fairytales #folklore Art by Arthur Rackham (1, 4, 7), Edmund Dulac (2,9), Francois Boucher (3), eBook Launch (5), Herbert Dicksee (6), and Amanda Bergloff (8) lissasloan.com/glass-and-fe...

In this Swedish story fragment, it’s not her stepmother causing #Cinderella trouble at home, but her father—saying she has to marry the man-servant. Not to worry though--she escapes on the family bull. 🐃 #fairytales #folklore #AnotherCinderella #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess 🎨Gaspare Traversi

Looking forward to treating myself to my favorite #selkie book, Selkie Moon by @kellyjarviswriter.bsky.social as an #audiobook ! #Folklore www.amazon.com/Audible-Selk...

I've been so struck by some of the things I've seen out on the streets lately, that I've resolved to start sharing them. What's the story here? #everydaymagic #storyprompt #snowwhite #fairytales #folkloreandfairytales #mirrormirror