Rachel Deeringさんのイラストまとめ

Mermaid Polka.

Lith. of Napoleon Sarony, 1850. H. D. Hewitt.

#MythologyMonday

For Tudors, when a guest left you might give them basil to wish them safe travel. However, in France, basil was the devil’s plant which could only be sown with curses and it was once believed that if you smelled it 🦂🦂🦂🦂would grow in your brain. There are lots of links to 🦂.

Regent bowerbird.

(Elizabeth Gould)

Landscape with birds

Roelant Savery
1628

Gouldian finch.

(1849)

In Wales, changelings were known as crimbals. One story is of Dazzy Walters in Ebbw Vale who woke up just as her baby was being stolen, but managed to hold onto its foot before the fairies disappeared with it. 🧚🏼‍♀️

#FaustianFriday

🎨 Kate Greenaway, April Baby Hush-a-bye, Baby.

Anne won the argument, but was certain that the old woman had given her the evil eye. She began to go into a number of hysterical trances. In 1672, she made a formal accusation against a group of women. She said that they had turned her into a horse and ridden her. 2/3

Purple-crowned fairywren.

Poem for #TopTweetTuesday @theeabsentee @blackboughpoems is called Trout. Written a couple of weeks ago.

Concert in the Egg. 🥚 🎶 Anonymous artist, in style or copy of Bosch. 1560s.