Coffin Boffinさんのイラストまとめ

Online Talk: Dr Sam George, Dark Folklore: A journey into the Botanical Gothic #31DaysofHallowwen https://t.co/MTH4OLMAVy

SNOW QUEEN'S MIRROR is the work of a Hobgoblin; it makes anything good in the world appear bad & all that is evil & worthless seem attractive. If a fragment enters the eye you will see only faults, if a splinter enters your heart it will turn to ice🎨Ford & Pym #FairyTaleTuesday

THE HARVEST MOON seen this week is rumoured to bring increased activity from #werewolves. Compelled to leave their hunting grounds in the woods, they will make their way to open fields to prowl & howl at the moon, surprising farmers out late harvesting ! #FolkloreThursday

ARIEL ON A BAT'S BACK Gothic Shakespeare
Where the bee sucks, there suck I
In a cowslip’s bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat’s back I do fly
The Tempest 1.ii #Baturday
🎨Henry Singleton, 1819; Joseph Severn, 1826; John Gilbert, 1862; Edmund Dulac, 1909

AUTUMN FAIRY RINGS are often a reminder of just how magical the season is but upon entering an elf ring or sorcerer's circle of mushrooms you may become invisible and be made to dance until you die of exhaustion! W.H Sullivan painting. #mythologymonday

CU SITH or SIDHE Gaelic fairy dog DARK GREEN in colour & as big as a 2 year old calf with coiled or plaited fur & tail. The Cu Sith are malevolent & possess the power of the evil eye. They appear in many notable studies of Irish fae 🎨Croker; Evans Wentz; White #FolkloreThursday

RAVEN GOTHIC The hoarse screech of the raven was seen both as an omen of death & a source of power; straddling the worlds of the living & the dead, the raven is an uncanny messenger between the two. 🎨Victorian Halloween invitation; image 2 c/o shirleytwofeathers #SuperstitionSat

MAGICAL NETSUKE SEAHORSE exquisitely carved in bone from Edo period Japan in the 1800s. The sacred jewel embedded in its forehead acts as a magical 3rd eye or urna; a single horn lays flat against the side of its head; 7.5 cm, worn hung from a sash 🎨British Museum

OLD STINKER. Werewolf of Hull UK. Beast of Barmston Drain. Walks upright, human face. Haunts Yorkshire’s wyrd wolds & a macabre drain on the edge of two graveyards nr RIVER HUMBER, the site of accidental drownings, murders and suicides #FolkloreThursday

KAPPA. 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!
Image 3 Kappa statue at Fukuoka #FolkloreThursday