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The Magic Circle, by John William Waterhouse (1886), portrays a woman using a wand to create a ritual space. A wand is a thin, light-weight rod that is held with one hand, and is traditionally made of wood, but may also be made of other materials, such as metal, bone or stone.
Two copies of the painting were produced. The two paintings and a study depict a witch or sorceress using a wand to draw a fiery magic circle on the Earth to create a ritual space for her ceremonial magic. As was common in the period, Waterhouse repeated his subject on a smaller scale, probably at the request of a collector.
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Dancing with Dandelions or One O'clock Wish is a sculpture depicting a fairy who appears to be fighting the wind while holding a dandelion. It was created by Robin Wight, an artist from Staffordshire. The artist now produces a series of wire sculptures featuring fairies and dandelions.
Fairy painting is a genre of painting and illustration featuring fairies and fairy tale settings, often with extreme attention to detail, seen as escapism for Victorians. The genre is most closely associated with Victorian painting in the United Kingdom and has experienced a contemporary revival.
Flora is the eldest fairy, dressed in a red gown (although her favorite color is pink), a red hat, and a red cape clipped with an orange square. She is the leader of the group. Her gift to Aurora is the gift of beauty.
Scarlet: A new art-talent fairy. She is especially skilled in pottery and is friends with Bess. Sera: A scouting-talent fairy. Spring: A spunky message-talent fairy who is good friends with Fira and Lily. Sweet Pea: A new fairy (mentioned above). Temma: A shoemaker fairy who dies drowning in a flood in Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand.
Thought a fairy tree in both Ireland and Wales, wood from the hazel was sacred to poets and was thus a taboo fuel on any hearth. Heralds carried hazel wands as badges of office. Witches' wands are often made of hazel, as are divining rods, used to find underground water. In Cornwall the hazel was used in the millpreve, the magical adder stones ...