WunderKammer さんのイラストまとめ

@bjorn_stjerne @Corvuscorax81 @FaustianFriday Still irritated by the yellow beret…

"I leave my brush at Azuma,
I go to the Land of the West on a journey
To view the famous sights there."

Utagawa Hiroshige, arguably the last great master of ukiyo-e, died #OTD 1858 in Edo to become highly influential posthumously in Western art

🖼️ from "Eight Views of Ōmi"

@MaeneSigne @kazerin Wait? What?

"Mabon the son of Modron spurred his steed and snatched his razor from him" (Mabinogion)

The salmon of Llyn Llyw knows where Mabon is held & helps King Arthur & his men to free Modron's son who plays a crucial part in the quest for the hand of fair Olwen

#FolkloreThursday

Captured in 1401, Klaus Störtebeker, leader of pirates known as "Vitalienbrüder", was granted a last wish: Who of his crew he touched after his head was cut off might go free. Beheaded Klaus reached 11 of his men before he was tripped up by the headsman

#mythologymonday

"... like another cursed Jonah..." ("Moby Dick")

A bringer o' bad luck on board a ship be called a Jonah 'n thrown into the sea, like the sailors o' Joppa did wit' the prophet on thar way t' Tarshish

#Superstitionsat #PirateLoreWeek

🖼️ print after Rubens, 1755

Yer weekly wunderkammer #superstitionsat safety advice - #pirateloreweek edition

If ye see red sails East o' the Good 'ope, shipmates, beware! Arrgh! It be the Flyin' Dutchman! Yer doom be ascertained!

Thank ye. Spit thrice, touch cold iron an' be safe.

"sus klagten sî ir ungemach
den rittern und den vrouwen
daz in in dem walde geschach" (Sigenot)

Dietrich von Bern fighting a Wild Man in the forest, quite Lichtenauer-sytle, with the help of the Dwarf Baldung

🖼️ Illustration of Sigenot"circa 1470

#FolkloreThursday

@FaustianFriday @INeveenBadr Felix sit natalis dies, dear Neveen!

@LivLingborn And each and every one of those provides all the wyrdlings & darklings with ample opportunities to share "ghost stories, folklore, & other spooky tales", @prvserpine All of the daily # have an anchor page to follow and the people organising the events set a daily theme as well