Alex Ecclestonさんのイラストまとめ

'Monstra Niliaca Parei', from Aldrovandi’s History of Monsters, 1642.

Human sacrifice from the Codex Magliabechiano.

Bakufu Ono (1888-1976) #Fish

Robin F Williams

Jantien de Boer

The Fly
William Blake (1757-1827)

Little fly,
Thy summer’s play
My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away.

Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?

For I dance
And drink and sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.

"They were strange days—curious dream-like days—and they followed each other silently, like shadows over grain fields."
- Edith Allonby, The Fulfilment (1905)

The Fall of Icarus (1558)
By Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1526–1569)

The Death of Marat
Edvard Munch
1907

The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea
William Blake
1810

First mentioned in the alchemical writings of Paracelsus, in Germanic folklore the Undine are female water nymphs who can only gain a human soul by marrying a human man. They lurk in bodies of water singing beautifully to lure their suitors #FolkloreThursday