Hi I’m Tanja Stephani, artist and kids book Illustrator, I’m new here and it’s still a bit confusing but I’m shure I get use to it.
Here is an illustration witch I created for #folktaleweek2022 and I hope you like it.

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Prompt 7: Victory

There is an adorable Transcarpathian folktale about humans and animals debating who owns the moonlight. They go on a quest to decide who wins.
In the end, after a long journey, they circle back home, where a young human couple and a pair of cats inform everyone that the moonlight in fact belongs to those in love.

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🐱 ❤️ 🐱

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Prompt 6: Potion

One of my favorite folktales is a story from Ethiopia about a woman who asks a wise man for a potion, to help her stepson accept her. Man tells her she needs a lion's whiskers for the potion.
The woman, with patience and courage, manages to get close enough to a lion to get the whiskers. The wise man then tells her:
"There is no potion. You just need the same patience, courage and time with the child."

🦁 ❤️

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Prompt 5: Costume

This prompt reminds me of a Polish Roma folktale about a girl called Sister of Birds. She could summon the birds with the colors of her dress. Red skirt summoned robins, grey cloak summoned cuckoos, yellow scarf summoned orioles, erc. They told her stories, and helped her escape from a witch.

🐦🕊🪶

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Prompt 4: Rebel

This prompt reminded me of the Jewish folktale titled The Rebel Princess.

It's about a princess who runs away with the man she loves. They get separated, and she goes through several adventures. At one point, she recruits a crew of women and takes over a pirate ship.
Eventually she becomes queen, and finds her lost love.

👸 ⛵ 🏴‍☠️

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Prompt 3: Stars

By far the cutest Hungarian origin story involving stars is from the Lake Balaton area:

They say a hedgehog wandered across the sky, accidentally poking holes in it, and that's how the Milky Way came to be.

🦔 🌟 🌟 🌟

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Prompt 2: Tree

A Transylvanian Roma folktale says in the old days trees could walk.
A rich man once saw a beautiful old oak, and ordered it to follow him home, to be cut up as firewood. Then he ordered the tree to carry him and his food along the way. Then ordered it to steal the bell from the church tower, just because.
At that point, lightning struck, and God decided trees should not walk and obey people anymore.

🌳 🌳 🌳

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Of course, the most famous of the #NorwegianFolktales for the seventh day of #FolktaleWeek2022 here on #Mastodon.

In my translation of “The Three Bill-Goats Bruse,” I have restored the goats’ proper name, but the action remains the same. Three goats, one troll, one bridge.

https://norwegianfolktales.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-three-billy-goats-gruff.html