The Witch Cat
I grew up listening to my maternal Grandmother reading faerie tales to me from a big (at least from a child's perspective) green leather bound volume of Grimm's Faerie Tales with fine gilding and marbled edges. Yet not all the stories I was told as a child came from my Grandmother's books. I also had a nanny when I was young. Her name was Eadie and she came from around Nottingham and she used to tell me English folk tales that were part of her childhood and history.
One tale Nanny Eadie told me which I loved was about a bitter witch who lived in the village of Sutton. She could transform herself into a monstrous black cat, and caused havoc in the household of a weaver of whom she was jealous.
My Grandmother's and Nanny Eadie's story telling instilled the love of faerie tales in me, both the written word and the illustrations created during the "Golden Age of Children's Illustration".
I am not a master illustrator like Edmund Dulac or Arthur Rackham, however this is my 21st Century tribute to the traditional English folk tale of my childhood using Playmobil characters destined eventually for my Goddaughters and nephews.
I hope you enjoy it.
If you like this I have another three sets of Playmobil faerie tale tableaux; The Frog Prince or Iron Heinrich, Rumplestiltskin and The Donkey Lettuces. Please click on the images in the comment below to view more.
The Witch Cat
I grew up listening to my maternal Grandmother reading faerie tales to me from a big (at least from a child's perspective) green leather bound volume of Grimm's Faerie Tales with fine gilding and marbled edges. Yet not all the stories I was told as a child came from my Grandmother's books. I also had a nanny when I was young. Her name was Eadie and she came from around Nottingham and she used to tell me English folk tales that were part of her childhood and history.
One tale Nanny Eadie told me which I loved was about a bitter witch who lived in the village of Sutton. She could transform herself into a monstrous black cat, and caused havoc in the household of a weaver of whom she was jealous.
My Grandmother's and Nanny Eadie's story telling instilled the love of faerie tales in me, both the written word and the illustrations created during the "Golden Age of Children's Illustration".
I am not a master illustrator like Edmund Dulac or Arthur Rackham, however this is my 21st Century tribute to the traditional English folk tale of my childhood using Playmobil characters destined eventually for my Goddaughters and nephews.
I hope you enjoy it.
If you like this I have another three sets of Playmobil faerie tale tableaux; The Frog Prince or Iron Heinrich, Rumplestiltskin and The Donkey Lettuces. Please click on the images in the comment below to view more.