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

CU SITH or SIDHE Gaelic 'dog of the fairies'. As big as a 2 year old calf & dark green in colour with coiled or plaited fur & tail. The Cu Sith are malevolent #Irish #Fairy dogs who possess the power of the evil eye.

KATZENKNÄUEL German ball of cats; cats or kittens knotted at the tail. 🎨Felsecker published a depiction of one in 1683, after the sensation of the Strasbourg Rat King of 1682 (knotted rats). 🎨A Rat King in the Musée zoologique de la ville de Strasbourg found 1895 #Caturday

MERMAID SAINT Lí Ban was caught in the net of Fergus of Miliuc; given the choice to be baptized & go to heaven within the hour, or to wait 300 years on earth, she chose to die & gain a soul. The story, recorded by Irish monks in C17th, may explain images of #mermaids in churches

Gustave Doré's illustrations to Charles Perrault's fairy tales appeared in 1862. The seemingly innocent tale translated as 'Little Tom Thumb' contains one of the most unsettling images in fairy tale history, the ogre's slaying of his seven sleeping daughters #FairyTaleTuesday.

VAMPIRIC BIRD WOMEN Folklorist & poet W. B. #Yeats wrote of a ghost ship of undead sailors near the world's end who discover an island of shadowless women who manifest as birds (The Shadowy Waters, 1904). Yeats read about #vampires during his occult phase #FolkloreThursday

FAIRY RINGS

Overnight, very
Whitely, discreetly,
Very quietly
Our toes, our noses
Take hold on the loam,
[...]Nobody sees us,
Stops us, betrays us
[..] We shall by morning
Inherit the earth.
Our foot's in the door

From 'Mushrooms' Sylvia Plath 🎨W.J.Morgan; Judi Morton

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; re-imagined under water in A.I. (2001) below, an uncanny vision of discarded robot boy David #FolkloreThursday

FAIRY LOVERS Theodore von Holst illustrates 'A Walpurgis Night's Dream' depicting the night time antics of a fairy couple in love, 1833; John Anster Fitzgerald imagines his Fairy lovers in a bird's nest watching a white mouse, 1860. #FolkloreThursday #Valentines2020

@earlymodatLancs @LancasterGothic Rackham 1908 and earlier Doré is important and Fuseli's MSND. Fuseli's MSND is wonderfully dark below he has a fairy courtesan who keeps an old man on a chain...ooh!