Coffin Boffinさんのイラストまとめ

BLUE FAIRY Kindly saviour of wayward puppet Pinocchio 1883; human-sized, not diminutive, she has a mysterious history, appearing first as a spectre child with blue hair. 🎨Augusta & Cavalieri 1924; Disneyfication, 1940; re-imagined under water in A.I. (2001) #FairyTaleTuesday

CATSITH Black fairy cat marked by a white spot; one of the key mourners at the funeral of The King of The Cats. On this day according to lore the new Cat King will declare himself, swelling & shrieking in a human voice before running off to fairyland #BlackCatAppreciationDay

DARE YOU ENTER A FAIRY RING? Upon entering a #fairy ring, elf circle, or pixie ring, you may become invisible & will be made to dance until you die of exhaustion 🎨uncanny fairy ring St Mary's Churchyard, Hartley Wespall; William Holmes Sullivan #FolkloreThursday

WALKING TREE The Banyan tree, Ficus benghalensis, has uncanny aerial roots that anchor the tree to the ground and look like limbs so it famously looks like it is walking; ghost shield in it in Bengali folktales 🎨Bangladesh; Botanic Gardens, Durban #FolkloreThursday

IRISH MERMAID SAINT #Mermaids are often associated with sin but when Lí Ban was caught in a net; clerics gave her a choice, to be baptized & go to heaven within an hour, or to wait 300 years on earth. She chose to die & became St. Muirgen of Donegal #WyrdWednesday

WULVER Man-Wolf of Shetland Folklore (often mistaken for a shapeshifter or a #werewolf); furred with a wolf's head; he spends his time fishing from a small rock or stone. He leaves fish on the window sills of the needy, redeeming the myth of the big bad #wolf #WyrdWednesday

TYPHON A monstrous being of Ancient Greek mythology, first referred to in Homer's Iliad; human head & intertwined snake tails for legs; terrible, outrageous & lawless, the 'father of the HARPIES' shares with 'typhoon' an association of ill winds #MythologyMonday

Congratulations to @UMGothic for organising such a well organised, wonderfully pertinent & emotional event on #CoronaGothic today. Thank you for inviting me to speak on #Amabie, monstrous mermaids, pandemics & prophecy beasts. Look forward to reading the papers @esmedunae

FAIRY FOOD Never partake in #fairy food transformed by fairy glamour. In Robert Herrick 1591–1674, fairies darkly feast on beards of mice, withered cherries, a mandrake's ears, a mole's eyes, a slain stag’s tears & the broken heart of a nightingale🎨Fitzgerald 1859 #GothicFairies

SELKIE Scottish folkloric poetry re-imagined with an passionate #LGBT twist for those interested in YA poetry, seal maidens & #selkie literature