Coffin Boffinさんのイラストまとめ

ODETTE Tchaikovsky’s Swan Queen, swims on a lake made from her mother's tears after a sorcerer, Baron von Rothbart, transforms her into swan form. At night she regains her human form. 📷 Anna Pavlova's dying swan dress. She played Odette over 4,000 times #FairyTaleTuesday

IRISH AISLING DEFEATS BRITISH VAMPIRE BAT This armed & heroic female figure or Aisling represents the Irish National League ready to defend Ireland from the monstrous vampirism of the British empire. The Irish Pilot, 1885 #StPatricksDay2023

MOTH FAIRIES Fuseli's gothic vision of A Midsummer Night's Dream c.1793 celebrates uncanny hybridisation in the form of a tiny mothman who sports not only wings but the entire face and head of a moth; he also painted a moth-headed fairy child with a proboscis #WyrdWednesday

HANS ANDERSEN illustrated by Edmund Dulac, 1911. In the tale The Nightingale, the bird's song is so vibrant & magical it banishes the demon death when it threatens to take the emperor; 'Even death himself listened to the song and said 'go on little Nightingale, go on!'… https://t.co/7KP41XfEwB

THE DARKNESS OF DAISIES The habit of dressing children in daisy chains comes from a desire to protect them against malevolent FAIRIES. Daisies are a sun symbol and therefore protective magic! #GothicSpring 🎨J.J Grandville; Fairy Angel, Highgate

LOVING THE MONSTER I am going to be posting my own take on #GothicValentines this week starting with 'Tamara and the Demon', Makovsky, 1889 & an an erotic encounter with a winged demon by Mihály von Zichy from a poem called 'The Demon' by Lermontov c.1829 #ValentinesDay2023

UNICORN SORROW The eyes of the unicorn are thought to be so sorrowful, gentle, & nobly tragic that they kill all emotions except LOVE in those who gaze upon them (referenced in E.H.White)🎨Longhi #MythologyMonday

FAIRIES ENCOUNTER WOODLAND CREATURES – A Thread #fairies are thought to cast an enchantment over woodland animals and birds; in the fantastical world of Jean-Baptiste Monge, the fae hitch rides on birds and are shown delighting in their mode of transport #FolkloreSunday

NEVER EAT FAIRY FOOD It is transformed by their use of GLAMOUR & is actually made up of weeds or rotten fruit. Fairies themselves prefer stalks of heather & the milk of red deer (according to folklore). 🎨Fairy Banquets: Rackham & Fitzgerald #FairyTaleTuesday

KAPPA - Thread. Vampiric Japanese river imp & Trickster #Yōkai. Likes human blood & entrails. A kind of humanoid turtle with a carapace, webbed feet & knee claws. The only thing Kappas enjoy more than a tasty child is a cucumber! #MythologyMonday