Rachel Deeringさんのイラストまとめ

Fairy food is complicated. If in a fairy realm, do not touch the food - you’ll get trapped there. However, if offered fairy food as a gift in the human realm, you should eat it or suffer a punishment like being pinched or, in the worst case scenario, death. #FolkloreThursday

Above the Clouds at Sunrise, Frederic Edwin Church, 1849.

Alberich (powerful elf) guards the treasure of Schilbung and Nibelung (mist and water). He also owns a cloak of invisibility (Tarnkappe). He appears in French lit as Aubéron and in English as Oberon. He is defeated by Siegfried in the Nibelungenlied. #FairytaleTuesday

Clerk Colvill and the Mermaid for British Ballads, Arthur Rackham. #MermaidMonday

Aesop's fables - Quack Frog, Rackham, 1912. 🐸 #FrogsOnFriday

Lugats are Albanian vampires, well, sort of, they’re complicated. Sometimes the wicked rise from their graves (though they have a day off on Saturday) and once up and about, smash windows, seduce women, murder. You can’t kill them when they are awake. 1/3 #FaustianFriday

The Crocodile 🐊
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in,
With gently smiling jaws! #ClassicLitSaturday 🐊

The Stolen Farthings is a ghostly Brothers Grimm tale. One night, a family were eating dinner with a friend when clock struck 12. The family friend saw a pale child dressed in white come through the door. The ghost walked to the next room without a word… 1/2 #FairyTaleTuesday

Ok, this is absolutely my last devil-related tweet for #WyrdWednesday, but it has helped in the interminable wait for my doctor’s appointment. This is ‘Humbugging, or Raising the Devil’ by Thomas Rowlandson, 1800. 😈

Oval frog (Engystoma ovale) and Green toad (Bufo viridis) illustrated by Charles Dessalines D' Orbigny in the 1892 edition of Dictionnaire Universel D'histoire Naturelle. #SwampSunday