WunderKammer さんのイラストまとめ

"Pesta" is the name of a lone, eerie figure, often described as an old woman, who brought the Black Death to Norway in 1349. Theodor Kittelsen (#BOTD 1857) created a series of haunting images, illustrating the pestilent ministry of the Medieval disease demon.
#MythologyMonday

Modelled along the lines of Dostoevsky’s first wife Maria Dmitrievna Isaeva, Sonia’s stepmother, consumptive, overchallenged, hysterical Katerina Ivanovna and her three little children star in some of the most haunting family scenes of world literature.
#DostoevskySaturday

@seelie_wight @occulife Had its moments... :-)

Once benevolent water & forest beings, Rusalki turned sour during C19, vengeful spirits of drowned maidens were taken in chez Rusalka and instead of granting fertility boons in spring, they now drown, tickle or dance their victims to death
#Gothicspring #FolkloreThursday

"Who does not know Turner's picture of the Golden Bough? … Dian herself might still linger by this lonely shore, still haunt these woodlands wild" - Frazer about the painting that inspired his magnum opus on #mythology & #folklore: J.M.W. Turner - #BOTD 1775
#FolkloreThursday

Cpt Aubrey’s adventurous world of fighting sail . With added dragons. What if the Napoleonic Wars were fought on land, sea & with draconic air forces: @naominovik's “Temeraire” series tells an immensely readable story of rather loveable dragons & their friends
#FairyTaleTuesday

"Moreau's figures are ambiguous... lovers look as though they were related, brothers as though they were lovers, men have the faces of virgins, virgins the faces of youths; the symbols of Good and Evil are entwined and equivocally confused" (M. Praz)
Gustave Moreau #DOTD 1898

It's *that* time of the week again...

Get head-spinningly wyrd & wynderful and share your stories, images and... things with #WyrdWednesday tomorrow &
@WyrdWednesday will RT them after 0900 AM GMT.

He stood apart, a fashionably old fashioned spectator, who observed, experimented, never truly participated, too early ripened for the long 19th century and too ripe for the 20th. John Singer Sargent died #OTD 1925 in London.

The van Dyck of his age: https://t.co/VcEltELr1h