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Ole Lukøje (19th century spelling: Ole-Lukøie) is one of Hans Christian Andersen's more obscure folk tales, telling of a mysterious mythic creature—based on folklore character of the Sandman, it gently takes children to sleep and, depending on how good or bad they were, shows them various dreams.

Under each arm he carries an umbrella; one of them, with pictures on the inside, he spreads over the good children, and then they dream the most beautiful stories the whole night. But the other umbrella has no pictures, and this he holds over the naughty children so that they sleep heavily, and wake in the morning without having dreamed at all.

Ole Lukøje's name is actually comprised of two parts: Ole being a common Danish boy's name and Lukøje meaning eye-closer in Danish. In the tale, he visits a boy called Hjalmar every night for a whole week and tells him stories. We learn later that Ole Lukøje is in fact very old—he is Morpheus the Greek dream god, and in his final tale on Sunday he tells of his brother, likewise called Ole Lukøje but also Death, who closes the eyes of those he visits and takes them away with him.

"I will show you my brother. He is also called Ole-Luk-Oie but he never visits any one but once, and when he does come, he takes him away on his horse, and tells him stories as they ride along. He knows only two stories.

"One of these is so wonderfully beautiful, that no one in the world can imagine anything at all like it; but the other is just as ugly and frightful, so that it would be impossible to describe it."

Then Ole-Luk-Oie lifted Hjalmar up to the window. "There now, you can see my brother, the other Ole-Luk-Oie; he is also called Death.

"You perceive he is not so bad as they represent him in picture books; there he is a skeleton, but now his coat is embroidered with silver, and he wears the splendid uniform of a hussar, and a mantle of black velvet flies behind him, over the horse. Look, how he gallops along."

/from wikipedia/

It's my favourite H.Ch.Andersen storry

Materials:

Bg - [link]

Ole - [link]

umbrellas - my own

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Description
Ole Lukøje (19th century spelling: Ole-Lukøie) is one of Hans Christian Andersen's more obscure folk tales, telling of a mysterious mythic creature—based on folklore character of the Sandman, it gently takes children to sleep and, depending on how good or bad they were, shows them various dreams.

Under each arm he carries an umbrella; one of them, with pictures on the inside, he spreads over the good children, and then they dream the most beautiful stories the whole night. But the other umbrella has no pictures, and this he holds over the naughty children so that they sleep heavily, and wake in the morning without having dreamed at all.

Ole Lukøje's name is actually comprised of two parts: Ole being a common Danish boy's name and Lukøje meaning eye-closer in Danish. In the tale, he visits a boy called Hjalmar every night for a whole week and tells him stories. We learn later that Ole Lukøje is in fact very old—he is Morpheus the Greek dream god, and in his final tale on Sunday he tells of his brother, likewise called Ole Lukøje but also Death, who closes the eyes of those he visits and takes them away with him.

"I will show you my brother. He is also called Ole-Luk-Oie but he never visits any one but once, and when he does come, he takes him away on his horse, and tells him stories as they ride along. He knows only two stories.

"One of these is so wonderfully beautiful, that no one in the world can imagine anything at all like it; but the other is just as ugly and frightful, so that it would be impossible to describe it."

Then Ole-Luk-Oie lifted Hjalmar up to the window. "There now, you can see my brother, the other Ole-Luk-Oie; he is also called Death.

"You perceive he is not so bad as they represent him in picture books; there he is a skeleton, but now his coat is embroidered with silver, and he wears the splendid uniform of a hussar, and a mantle of black velvet flies behind him, over the horse. Look, how he gallops along."

/from wikipedia/

It's my favourite H.Ch.Andersen storry

Materials:

Bg - [link]

Ole - [link]

umbrellas - my own

________________________________

Please don't copy or download this images.

My arts may NOT be reproduced and/or used in any form without my written permission.

If you like some - write to me!
DON'T STEAL!!

Nie wyrażam zgody na wykorzystywanie całości lub fragmentów moich prac na stronach www, w blogach, szablonach, w portfoliach, na naszej-klasie.pl i avatarach bez mojej wiedzy. Nie zezwalam na publikowanie, drukowanie czy wywoływanie prac bez mojej wiedzy. Rozpowszechnianie w jakiejkolwiek formie bez wiedzy autora prawnie wzbronione. W przypadku złamania praw autorskich sprawa zajmie się sąd właściwy dla miejsca zamieszkania twórcy.