Rachel Deeringさんのイラストまとめ

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

Centauress , John La Farge, c.1887. #FairyTaleTuesday

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

Vodyanoy is part old man, part frog. He has red eyes, fish scales and tail and is covered in algae. He travels the river by log. He is known to drown people and damage dams. It’s important to make sacrifices to him if you’re near water. 1/2 #SwampSunday

Alcyone and Ceyx were happily married, but got a little carried away in sometimes calling each other Zeus and Hera. Zeus was furious about this and when Ceyx was travelling across the sea to consult an oracle, as one did… 1/3 #MythologyMonday