Russian Rhapsody - Loony Tunes (1944)

Featuring "Gremlins from the Kremlin."

RUSSIAN RHAPSODY
(Clampett-1944)

We're gremlins from the Kremlin
Da da da da da
We're gremlins from the Kremlin
Da da da da da
I'm a gremlin from the Kremlin
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
We are Russian gremlins
Up in the sky we're from
*Schickelgruber's aeroplanes
We shake right to the ground
We like nothing better than to mess up Messerschmitts
And send their heavy bombers down to earth in teeny bits
Napoleon and his army never got to first base
Now we'll push those nasty Nazis in der fuehrer's face
We're here, we're there, we're everywhere
We're in the Nazi's hair
And when they try to catch us
We're the little men who weren't there
And when they try to catch us
We're the little men who weren't there

*Adolph Hitler was actually Adolph Schickelgruber-Hitler. Schickelgruber was used to poke fun at him by the allies. Source.

The Fairy Tales of Science by John Cargill Brough (1857)

Source. A book that decides to tell some lessons of elementary science in the language of alchemy, magic and fairy stories.

"In the year 1746, an ingenious Dutchman actually managed to coax him into a glass bottle, coated within and without with metal, but the Spirit soon escaped from his narrow prison by passing through the limbs and body of the experimentalist, who received such a violent shock that he was compelled to take to his bed. This incident, however, did not deter the philosopher from prosecuting his inquiries, and his endeavours to construct a secure prison were eventually crowned with success.

Six years after this, an American sage summoned the now docile Spirit from the clouds during a thunderstorm, by means of a boy's kite, and thus proved the identity of lightning and that force which for two thousand years was regarded as an emanation peculiar to rubbed amber.

The nineteenth century was heralded in by the announcement of a still greater fact. A learned Italian now found that he could dispense with all the old machinery of incantation, and evoke the Amber Spirit by the action of acids upon metals. He piled up alternate disks of zinc and copper, kept separate by the interposition of moistened pasteboard, and with this simple apparatus he obtained absolute control over the movements of the Spirit. He compelled him to travel along metal wires of any length; to force asunder the elementary atoms of water; to bring to light substances hitherto unknown, and to perform a hundred other feats equally wonderful. The Spirit was vanquished—the lightning was chained—and man reigned supreme."

A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum (1904)

A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum.

Fairy Songs, Elfin Music

The Fairies by William Allingham
The Deer and the Vila
Russian Fairy Poem
The Hosting of the Sidhe
Fairy Poem by Yeats
The Fairy Well of Lagnanay
Samuel Ferguson
The Fairy Thorn
by Samuel Ferguson
The Fisherman
by Goethe
The Lepracaun
by William Allingham
Cusheen Loo
Irish Fairy Song
The Fairy Nurse
Poem by Edward Walsh
A Dream
Poem
To The Nymphs
Greek Fairy Song
Finnish Prayers to the Fairies
Songs to Fairies
Extracts Vila Sagas
Songs to Fairies
To Mountain Sprite
by Thomas Moore
Fairy Halloween
Poem about fairies
The Moss Women
Fairy Poem
Fairy Song
by Louisa May Alcott

The Fairy Song
by William Shakespeare
Queen Mab 
by Percy Bysshe Shelley 1813
Leprechaun 
Mumblin' Y. Plumber

The Hobbit (1977)

c/f Lyrics for Songs
c/f Book
c/f J.R.R. Tolkien’s Personal Book Cover Designs for The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
c/f The Soviet "Hobbit" 
c/f  The Hobbit (1985 Soviet TV Special)
c/f Watch the first film adaptation of ‘The Hobbit,’ a 1966 animated short
c/f Vintage Illustrations for Tolkien’s The Hobbit from Around the World

Fantasy Art

Brian Froud
Wikipedia Entry
World of Froud
Fairies Animated Special

Fidus
Hippie Roots & The Perennial Subculture
Google Image Search

Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy 11
Final Fantasy Wiki

Gehard
Art of Gehard

Herbert James Draper
A Water Baby
Google Images

Arthur Rackham
Rackham Fairy and Fairy Tale Art
Drawings by Arthur Rackham

Jeffrey Catherine Jones
Jeffrey Catherine Jones a Life Lived Deeply
Jeffrey Jones, Illustrator of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Paintings

See Also: The History of Fantasy Art & Fantasy Artists

The Art Fairy Tale

A Fairy Tale - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Two Free Men - Sheila Heti

The King of the Golden River - John Ruskin

Frauds on the Fairies - Charles Dickens's  (1853)

The Adventures of Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie

Chapter 1 - Peter Breaks Through
Chapter 2 - The Shadow
Chapter 3 - Come Away, Come Away!

Chapter 4 - The Flight
Chapter 5 - The Island Come True
Chapter 6 - The Little House
Chapter 7 - The Home Under The Ground
Chapter 8 - The Mermaids' Lagoon
Chapter 9 - The Never Bird
Chapter 10 - The Happy Home
Chapter 11 - Wendy's Story
Chapter 12 - The Children Are Carried Off
Chapter 13 - Do You Believe In Fairies?
Chapter 14 - The Pirate Ship
Chapter 15 - "Hook Or Me This Time"
Chapter 16 - The Return Home
Chapter 17 - When Wendy Grew Up

For a transcript of the Disney Film: Go Here.

Mumblin Y. Plumber Trio - Leprachaun

Source.

Peter Pan in Kensington gardens by J.M. Barrie ; with drawings by Arthur Rackham (1918 edition)

Source.

Illustrations and photos.

Han Christian Anderson Stories

"WHEN MERMAIDS DIE they turn to sea foam and cease to exist, while humans have an eternal soul that lives on in Heaven."

1835 The Tinder Box 1835 Little Claus and Big Claus 1835 The Princess and the Pea 1835 Little Ida’s Flowers 1835 Little Tiny or Thumbelina 1835 The Saucy Boy 1835 The Travelling Companion 1836 The Little Mermaid 1837 The Emperor’s New Suit 1838 The Goloshes of Fortune 1838 The Daisy 1838 The Brave Tin Soldier 1838 The Wild Swans 1838 The Garden of Paradise 1838 The Flying Trunk 1838 The Storks N1839 The Elf of the Rose 1840 What the Moon Saw 1840 The Wicked Prince 1842 The Metal Pig 1842 Shepherd’s Story  1842 A Rose from Homer’s Grave 1842 The Buckwheat 1842 Ole-Luk Oie, the Dream God 1842 The Swineherd 1844 The Angel 1844 The Nightingale 1844 The Ugly Duckling 1844 The Top and Ball 1845 The Fir Tree 1845 The Snow Queen 1845 The Little Elder Tree Mother 1845 The Elfin Hill 1845 The Red Shoes 1845 The Jumper 1845 The Shepherdess and the Sweep 1845 Holger Danske 1845 The Bell 1845 Grandmother 1846 The Darning Needle 1846 The Little Match Seller 1847 The Sunbeam and the Captive 1847 By the Almshouse Window 1847 The Old Street Lamp 1847 The Neighbouring Families 1847 Little Tuk 1847 The Shadow 1848 The Old House 1848 The Drop of Water 1848 The Happy Family 1848 The Story of a Mother 1848 The Shirt Collar

1849 The Flax 1850 The Phoenix Bird 1851 A Story 1851 The Puppet Show Man 1851 The Dumb Book 1852 The Old Grave Stone 1852 The Conceited Apple Branch 1852 The Loveliest Rose in the World 1852 In a Thousand Years 1852 The Swan’s Nest 1852 The Story of the Year 1852 There Is No Doubt About It 1852 A Cheerful Temper 1853 A Great Grief 1853 Everything in the Right Place 1853 The Goblin and the Huckster 1853 Under the Willow Tree 1853 The Pea Blossom 1853 She Was Good for Nothing 1854 The Last Pearl 1854 Two Maidens 1855 Uttermost Parts of the Sea 1855 The Money Box 1855 A Leaf from Heaven 1855 Jack the Dullard 1855 Ib and Little Christina 1856 The Thorny Road of Honor 1856 The Jewish Maiden 1857 The Bell Deep 1858 The Bottle Neck 1858 Soup from a Sausage Skewer 1858 The Old Bachelor’s Nightcap 1858 Something 1858 Last Dream of the Old Oak 1858 The Marsh King’s Daughter 1858 The Races 1859 The Philosopher’s Stone 1859 The Story of the Wind 1859 The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf 1859 Ole the Tower Keeper 1859 Anne Lisbeth 1859 Children’s Prattle 1859 The Child in the Grave 1859 Two Brothers 1860 The Pen and the Inkstand 1860 The Farm Yard Cock  1860 Beauty of Form Beauty of Mind 1860 A Story from the Sand Hills 1860 Moving Day 1861 The Butterfly 1861 Bishop of Borglum 1861 The Mail Coach Passengers 1861 Beetle Who Went on Travels 1861 What the Old Man Does 1861 The Snow Man 1861 The Portuguese Duck 1861 The Ice Maiden 1861 The Psyche 1861 The Snail and the Rose Tree 1861 The Old Church Bell 1862 The Silver Shilling 1863 The Snowdrop 1865 The Bird of Popular Song 1865 The Will-o-the Wisp 1865 The Windmill 1865 In the Nursery 1865 The Golden Treasure 1865 The Storm Shakes the Shield 1866 Delaying Is Not Forgetting 1866 The Porter’s Son 1866 Our Aunt 1866 The Toad 1868 The Goblin and the Woman 1868 The Dryad 1869 The Court Cards 1869 Luck May Lie in a Pin 1869 Sunshine Stories 1869 What One Can Invent 1869 The Thistle’s Experiences 1869 Poultry Meg’s Family 1870 The Candles 1870 The Most Incredible Thing 1870 Danish Popular Legends 1871 The Great Sea Serpent 1871 The Gardener and the Manor 1872 The Cripple 1873 The Flea and the Professor

The Goblin's Christmas by Elizabeth Anderson (1908)

Available, in full.

Goblins, broomsticks, Christmas. 

What a Cake of Soap Will Do (1890)

From Open Collections Program: Women Working: 1800-1930--an interesting collection of old catalogs targeting a primarily North American homemaker readership--the below comes from Proctor and Gamble: What a Cake of Soap Will Do. This illuminated manuscript is a twenty-three page ad in rhyming verse, flowery prose, with printer's ornaments, drawer-ly illustrations.

Loads of pause can be had herein at the generous scribbler's verve expended on, in one instance, the scene of attendees at a magic lantern show (beloved pets + circus animals) exchanging stories about Ivory Soap's purity.

If Ivory's point has not been landed  by the time the Elders of  Brownies have commented about the scourge of dandruff afflicting country fairies, then one is either likely not the intended audience--or dead inside.

Mark also the family doctor who tests the validity of product claims himself; the village of trades cast as characters--like main street America back in the day was verbatim smurf village; the liberal sprinkling of Gibson girls, English lords, and a whole host of by-the-numbers fancy stock types. An enjoyable, only slightly sinisterly commercial, testament to a time when ads were not solely a *visual* medium. Also, a case for, maybe, why they should be.