WunderKammer さんのイラストまとめ

"... and a star to steer her by" (John Masefield)

A more recent sailors' superstition has it that a tattoo of a compass rose or the North Star helps to guide you safe an sound back home again

🎨 Aivazovsky (1849)

#folklorethursday

"But goblins, bogies, and spectres issue forth from earth and rock and cloud for their annual carousal in the darksome forest...children dare not cry aloud, lest the witches, hearing them, should spirit them away to be served up at their terrible orgies!"

#dontgointothewoods

“… in Wendsyssel… in the north of Jutland… There is still a great bog there. It may well be called the Wild Bog, and one can easily imagine how desolate and dreary it was among all these swamps and pools a thousand years ago.” (Andersen)

🎨 W. Heath Robinson

#swampsunday

@MaeneSigne Maybe we find one who likes crossword puzzles?

Any road, yes, sphinges are welcome, too!

@MaeneSigne No more!

Lynxes yes! Jinxes no!

"There gardens surround a palace all of glass;
There Firebirds sing by night
And peck at golden fruit" (Polonsky)

Stravinsky's "Firebird" premiered #OTD 1910 in Paris

🎨 Leon Bakst

"But have a care
To make short stay
Where wields his sway,
The Great Lord Fish" (Walter de la Mare)

... or how to disenchant a fish-tailed lass cursed by a carless wizard in the realm of the Lord Fish

#WyrdWednesday #darkgreenweek

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”

Peter Pan's father J. M. Barrie died #OTD 1937

🎨 Arthur Rackham (1906)

"Even more he liked an old German song of Johannes Jeep about the clear sea and the voices of sirens, sweet murderers of men, which boggled Bloom a bit:

Von der Sirenen Listigkeit
Tun die Poeten dichten*" (Joyce "Ulysses")

🎨 Warwick Goble

#Bloomsday #darkgreenweek

@Kerria @bjorn_stjerne Thank you!

🎨 Imao Keinen