July’s Magickal Thing ~ A Parade Of Puppets & Marionettes

July 3, 2012 by Lily Wight

Hello Blogsprites!

Summer 2012 is a total wash-out here in the United Kingdom so I will endeavour to make this month at The Arcade of Arts & Arcana as enchanting and enticing as possible!

July will be dedicated to strings and things; to the cute puppet friends who delighted us in childhood to the creepy, pant-wetting, spindle-limbed horrors that still haunt our adult nightmares… no? Just me then 😉

I also hope to squeeze in a few reviews and recommendations for some unusual Graphic Novels and present some Blog Awards whilst saying thanks for those I have recently received.

I have updated and launched a brand new album in the Gallery (you can click the header tab to visit, free entry as usual) or simply click the sample pictures below…

Click the smiley to try another post 🙂

“Pelham Puppets” marionette dolls (curbfinds.wordpress.com)

Posted in Art | Tagged Czech, Entertainment, Graphic novel, July, Marionette, Pelham Puppets, Photographs, Pinocchio, Prague, Puppet, Puppetry, skeleton, Stop Motion, Summer 2012, Theatre | 24 Comments

24 Responses

on July 3, 2012 at 6:35 pm | Reply Juliette

I need a love love love button for this post!

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- on July 3, 2012 at 9:00 pm | Reply Lily Wight
  
  I’ll have to see if I can download one from somewhere! Thanks Juliette, I hope you’ll keep commenting throughout the month xx
  
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on July 3, 2012 at 6:58 pm | Reply Stephen Kelly Creative

how cool! love the dancing marionette skeleton!!!

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- on July 3, 2012 at 8:59 pm | Reply Lily Wight
  
  Epic, yet pant-wetting xx
  
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on July 4, 2012 at 7:44 am | Reply sammiwitch

I am not really a fan of puppets and marionettes – they are just too creepy (in my eyes)…BUT…I have to say that the dancing skeleton is great!
Brightest Blessings

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- on July 4, 2012 at 9:32 pm | Reply Lily Wight
  
  They creep me out too! I think this is my way of owning the fear! x
  
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on July 4, 2012 at 1:24 pm | Reply evea192

I like the “Ring Master”

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- on July 4, 2012 at 9:29 pm | Reply Lily Wight
  
  She’s a saucy lady!
  
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  - on July 5, 2012 at 7:33 am | Reply evea192
    
    U read my mind.
    
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on July 5, 2012 at 8:24 am | Reply Browsing the Atlas

What a great theme! I have enjoyed marionette shows since I was a child. When I was a kid, we had marionette troups visit our elementary schools each year. They did fairytales such as “Red Riding Hood” and “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.” It was magical. Made me a fan for life.

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- on July 5, 2012 at 9:30 pm | Reply Lily Wight
  
  Thanks for the comment. I hope those marionette shows didn’t scare you too much. I’ve been inspired because a local market town has a puppet festival next month. Previous years have been brilliant so I’m hoping to get some photos on here 🙂
  
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on July 5, 2012 at 1:07 pm | Reply LediaR

Puppets are cool and creepy all at the same time.

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on July 5, 2012 at 7:33 pm | Reply candicemcmath

Wow! I love your blog. Thanks for commenting on mine and looking forward to reading through more of yours!

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on July 6, 2012 at 10:29 am | Reply loonyliterature

Thank you so much for that – I adore puppets – I don’t find them creepy – I think they are beautiful. I adore the cat ones in the shops in Venice.

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- on July 6, 2012 at 7:33 pm | Reply Lily Wight
  
  🙂 xx
  
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on July 7, 2012 at 1:47 am | Reply Sherry Key, Artist

I love all the goodies. July’s theme is great! I’ll have to remember to keep checking it out…Sherry

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- on July 10, 2012 at 10:50 am | Reply Lily Wight
  
  Hi Sherry. I’m still enjoying your blog too! It’s surprising how many people have told me they have “puppet fear”, glad you are brave enough to drop by again x
  
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on July 11, 2012 at 12:25 pm | Reply Sherry Key, Artist

I have a fear of several things (like checking my mail for one…LoL), but puppets isn’t one of them, thank goodness.

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on December 7, 2012 at 5:46 pm | Reply mariathermann

Three great places to see puppets and marionettes perform on historic theatre stages are my home town Luebeck, Schwaebisch Hall and Augsburg, in Germany and of course Prague in the Czech Republic, where I saw a performance of Don Giovanni just as it would have been shown during Mozart’s time in that great city. Great stuff, although I agree, puppet shows are creepy, but in a good way!

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- on December 8, 2012 at 7:48 pm | Reply Lily Wight
  
  I visited the Rhine Valley earlier in the year and saw some beautiful little towns. I would love to go to Prague. It’s the puppet capital of the world 😉 There is a puppet festival every year in a town close by, it gets bigger and better every year – Don Giovanni sounds amazing, I might see if I can find some footage on YouTube 🙂 xx
  
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  - on December 8, 2012 at 7:52 pm | Reply mariathermann
    
    Probably no Don Giovanni footage, they nearly threw out some Japanese girlies who held up their mobile phones to record the performance. The costumes were splendid and they had a puppeteer in the “orchestra” pit pretending to conduct the musicians, very funny.
    
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