It's the cover of a pop culture magazine called Peri Kizi, which translates into English as “fairy,” as in a mystical creature from ancient folklore. The reason this caught our eye is because the cover star, billed as Nana Aslanoglu inside the magazine, is famed Lebanese born bellydancer and impromptu Rome stripper Kiash Nanah, who was also known as Aïché Nana. The photos feature her sporting a top added by censors, sadly, but t`he images are still quite nice.
From More English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1894.
From The Spanish Fairy Book by Gertrudis Segovia and illustrated by George W. Hood, 1918.
From Jugend, 1921.
From Fairy Tales, written and illustrated by Alfred Crowquill, 1857.
From Die Muskete, 1928.
From Die Muskete, 1909.
hot snail-on-fairy action
Here’s a hare as a substitute for a powder-puff, from Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1883.
From Jugend, 1898.
Restoring the Lost Sense
You've heard that fairies are from the Otherworld, but it's quite literally another world. From St. Nicholas magazine, 1910.
B. Kupfer & Co. Compressed Yeast. Circa 1877 vintage advertisement or label shows a sprite holding a cake of compressed yeast.
A fairy photographed by Jerome in the 1930s (by lovedaylemon)
1949 Fairy Soap ad (by totallymystified)
Illustration by Bill Layne (1953)
