Two more gems from Frankenstein and Cappuccetto Rosso (little red riding hood).

Some of my favourite 70's fumetti covers. Erotische Vertellingen (the dutch version of the Italian comic Biancaneve), Lucifera, Sukia.

Hans Christian Andersen's mermaid had to give up her ability to speak in order to receive a pair of legs, a symbol of sacrificing one's right of speech for acceptance. The sixteenth-century Swiss physician and alchemist Paracelsus professed that when a mermaid married a mortal and had a child, she received a soul.

The golden rule

The tattoo: A Pictorial History - Jeff Jaguer