Bird and Mouse?

[aslan4king]

Does anyone know about a fairy tail that involves a crow and a mouse? In episode one, there was a few pages that were opened when Emma crashed. You first saw monkeys and then you saw the caterpillar from wonderland. Now when you pause right after that, as the pages ruffle in the breeze, you can see a picture and I think it’s a mouse and a crow. Any ideas?

[mia]

This is the page that comes afterwards and There’s no mouse or crow on it. :3
http://lifeiscapsonceuponatime.wordpress.com/once-upon-a-time-1×01-pilot-page-14/#jp-carousel-2826

In the Thumbelina story (by H. C. Andersen) there is a field mouse and a swallow. Mouse and crow doesn’t ring any bell.

[aslan4king]

This is the picture I was talking about, I’m not sure but that bird looks a lot like a crow.

[lilred]

Good catch there! 😀

I’m going to keep looking, but so far haven’t found anything of a mouse and a crow: did find this though.

The Fox and the Crow
Aesop Fable

A crow was sitting on a branch of a tree with a piece of cheese in her beak when a fox observed her and set his wits to work to discover some way of getting the cheese. Coming and standing under the tree he looked up and said, “What a noble bird I see above me! Her beauty is without equal, the hue of her plumage exquisite. If only her voice is as sweet as her looks are fair, she ought without doubt to be queen of the birds.” The crow was hugely flattered by this, and just to show the fox that she could sing she gave a loud caw. Down came the cheese, of course, and the fox, snatching it up, said, “You have a voice, madam, I see. What you want is wits.”

Just looked at a photo of Regina is a black dress with feathers, so this made me think of the Regina/Rumple dynamic. 😆

Even though foxes are always the tricksters, it seems more fitting that a mouse would be tricking a crow out of her cheese.

[hjbau]

This is a painting or illustration. Solomon Crow and the Mice by Arthur Rackham. I am not sure if it was done for a certain story or not. I am still looking. Link to the painting.

http://oldpainting.blogspot.com/2009/08/arthur-rackham-solomon-crow-and-mice.html

[hjbau]

Okay. I looked around a bit more. There is a story called Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens which was originally in J.M. Barrie’s The Little White Bird.. Anyways. There is a character called Solomon Craw who is a crow. And i found another illustration by the same guy Arthur Rackhman that is called Peter Pan Talking With Old Solomon Crow, and there are mice in that one two. I have never read Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens but i am thinking that this illustration might have to do with that story.

Interesting. Good find. I love that they have an obscure Peter Pan reference even in the Pilot.

[aslan4king]

@hjbau wrote:

This is a painting or illustration. Solomon Crow and the Mice by Arthur Rackham. I am not sure if it was done for a certain story or not. I am still looking. Link to the painting.

http://oldpainting.blogspot.com/2009/08/arthur-rackham-solomon-crow-and-mice.html

Wow! that looks to be the exact photo in the book!

[surayya]

@Aslan4king wrote:

@hjbau wrote:

This is a painting or illustration. Solomon Crow and the Mice by Arthur Rackham. I am not sure if it was done for a certain story or not. I am still looking. Link to the painting.

http://oldpainting.blogspot.com/2009/08/arthur-rackham-solomon-crow-and-mice.html

Wow! that looks to be the exact photo in the book!

My thoughts exactly!
Darn good catch this one!

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