Coffin Boffinさんのイラストまとめ

Excited to announce my paper, 'Analysing #Amabie: the monstrous mermaid revived to ward off coronavirus' at CORONAGOTHIC: Cultures of the Pandemic’: an online conference by @UMGothic, 10am BST Tues 30 June. Free to register https://t.co/goM3qst4VI #FolkloreThursday

FENRIR the most infamous of the many #wolves in Norse mythology. He’s the son of the god Loki and the giantess Angrboda. It is ultimately Fenrir who, in addition to killing Odin and destroying much of the world, will eat the sun and the moon during Ragnarok #FolkloreThursday

BECOMING A FEMALE WEREWOLF FROM BIRTH It is believed that when SEVEN girls succeed one another in one family that among them ONE is of necessity a WEREWOLF. The Seven sisters werewolf myth was popularised by Sabine Baring-Gould in 1865 #FolkloreThuursday #GothicNewWorlds

HERNE Spectral Huntsman of English lore; leader of the wild hunt, nocturnal procession of the dead, & haunter of Windsor Forest; As an antlered & horned God he's linked to Pan. Image Symbaroum, RPG, Sweden; Franz Von Stuck, The Wild Hunt, 1889 #GothicNewWorlds #MythologyMonday

MOONLIGHT FAE Nocturnal Fairies & crescent moon inspired by William Allingham (1824 - 1889); Owl-Riding Night-time Fae, Amelia Jane Murray, 1800-1896 #GothicNewWorlds #GothicFairies

LEPUS CORNUTUS The 'horned hair' was first described in Conrad Gessner's Historiae Animalium, Zurich, 1551-87. This led to the animal being included in many other important works of natural history. The Jackalope and Wolpertinger are other examples #MythologyMonday #GothicSpring

DARE YOU ENTER A FAIRY RING? A fairy ring, elf circle, or pixie ring, is an uncanny arc of mushrooms. Upon entering you may become invisible & will be made to dance until you die of exhaustion #scaryfairies 🎨 William Holmes Sullivan; W. J. Morgan

SCARY FOREST FAIRIES Knights are menaced by an array of #fairies in John Gilbert's The Enchanted Forest (1855); Fairies besiege and bewitch witch a peasant woman in an enchanted wood in a stunning painting by Russian artist Yulia Litvinova #scaryfairies

CAT-BOGEY-BEAST From English Fairy Tales, 1918, illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Fancy my seeing the Bogey-Beast all to myself; and making myself so free with it, too! said the old woman
#Caturday #GothicSpring

FLOWER MOON Tonight's full moon is known as the #FlowerMoon, falling as it does in the blooming month of May; other names for May's full moon include the hare moon & the milk moon. I'm sure the fae will be dancing around the flower moon 🎨JinxMim artworks; Amelia Jane Murray