Coffin Boffinさんのイラストまとめ

7. JÓLAKÖTTURINN. Icelandic Yule Cat. Parents told the tale of the monstrous feline saying that Jólakötturinn could tell who the lazy or naughty children were and these children would be sacrificed to the Yule Cat. #GothidAdvent @OGOMProject

4. VINTAGE CHRISTMAS CARDS. It's darkling Xmas season. After all nothing says Christmas quite like a procession of pyromaniac sparrows, an overly amorous root vegetable and an angelic child baked in a pie!! #GothicAdvent

GOREY BATS. Edward Gorey, 1925 – 2000, U.S. writer & artist noted for his dark humour & uncanny books with characteristic pen-and-ink sketches on numerous gothtastic themes
Images: The Gilded Bat (1966); Gorey's Dracula as bat (1977); Gorey bat doodle, #BatsUnited @OGOMProject

FAIRY TALE BAT. Viktor Oliva (1861 – 1928) was a Czech painter and illustrator. Image from 'National Fairy Tales and Legends' by V. B. Trebizskeho (1870). Showing ferocious bat-dragon #BatsUnited

BAT-RIDING FEY & WITCHES. 'Ariel on a Bat's Back' from Shakepeare's 'The Tempest', Edmund Dulac (1915); 'witche's sister on her black bat' , from Ida Rentoul Outhwaite ' (1888 – 1960) #BatsUnited @OGOMProject

FAIRIES & BATS. Arthur #Rackham's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1908) shows fairies warring with #bats in a bid to steal their 'their leathern wings' . Elsewhere in John Ansteer Fitgzerald (1819 – 1906) bad fairies spear bats - Hey fairies leave those bats alone!! #BatsUnited

VAMPIRE BATS. Bats are not found in very early #vampire lore but the Spanish came back from the New World with stories of blood-sucking bats. Buffon named them 'vampire bats' in 1774 & Darwin popularised them in 1832 sketching them in Chile.

Goya 1799, Darwin 1832, gargoyle

FAIRIES are they
1. Souls of unbaptised dead trapped between heaven & earth
2. Guardians of the dead or ancestral ghosts
4. Fallen angels, sentenced by God to the elements of the earth as demons
5. Nature spirits attached to place & the 4 elements
6. Supernatural shapeshifters?

BABA YAGA’S CAT & KIP THE ENCHANTED CAT. From 'The Fairy Tale Book' illustrated by Adrienne Ségur, an English translation of Il Etait Une Fois (Golden Books, 1958). #Caturday

NOPPERA-BŌ. This #Yōkai looks like a human until you see its face which is completely featureless, lacking any kind of expression & as smooth as an egg. The iconic legend is first recounted by Lafcadio Hearn in Kwaidan ('nupperi' also 'nopperi' means 'flat-faced') #YokaiFriday