Ellen Louise Lloyd 🌹さんのイラストまとめ

#FolkloreThursday - A Devon folktale tells pixies put their small ones at night into the blown tulips to be cradled by the winds.

A woman visited her garden & found the tiny ones asleep in the flowers. She planted more tulips & fairies gave the flowers lovely bright colors.🌷

#FairyTaleTuesday - “I have spent most of my life in the woods, among the flowers, listening for hours to the birds. 🐦

I have learned many lessons, and the greatest of them all is to know how much power there is in little things.”

~ Norse God Frey https://t.co/rnf82pXBTN

#FolkloreSunday - According to Celtic beliefs, hawthorns are sacred and magical and must never be picked as they guard the entrance to the faerie world.

Only exception is Beltane when ribbons of hawthorns can be used as an offering in exchange for a wish. #BookChatWeekly

#FairyTaleTuesday - Ostara was the Spring Goddess of rebirth, renewal, and fertility. She was a patron of the lily of the valley that marked her coming. Legend tells she transformed an injured bird into a hare, and the hare responded by laying colored eggs for her festival. 🐇🌞

“Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.”
~ Robertson Davies
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#Caturday #BookChatWeekly

🎨Limduey

When Celtic Finn Mccool sailed with his men their ship reached a mysterious island that was as beautitul as dangerous.

Birds were singing and in the dark forest was a well with a curiously wrought drinking-horn.
#ofdarkandmacabre #BookChatWeekly #BookWormSat

#MythologyMonday - Someone had seen the trickster god Loki with Idun go into a forest, and then she vanished.
Norse gods learned Idunn had been abducted and taken to Thiasse’s palace, where he had shut her in a prison cell. 🍎🦅
https://t.co/1g1fSS7bLC

#FolkloreThursday - Legend tells that the underwater city of Ys was one of Europe's most beautiful places. It was home to Dahut, a wicked princess. When the waves submerged the city, Dahut became a water spirit doomed to swim the lonely seas for eternity. https://t.co/mycq1rhH7K

#FairyTaleTuesday - When the Aesir were tired of Loki's need of attention and never-ending tricks causing problems, he fled into the mountains where he built a castle of rocks.
From there, he kept watch in all directions and saw any approaching enemy. https://t.co/HuPjm51SII

In south Sweden, Askafroa is an evil and harmful female guardian living in the ash tree. Sacrifices to her were made on Ash Wednesday.

The ash tree is avoided when it's dark because horrible underground creatures live beneath its roots.

#MythologyMonday #31DaysOfHaunting