Dr. Francesca Bihetさんのイラストまとめ

Fairy Realm by Gustave Dore/ Tom Hood (1866) beautiful illustrations painful rhyming. #FairyTaleTuesday
"What more ? The good fairy returned on the scene,
And, instead of the garb which was really not clean,
At a touch of her wand, in a dress of rare sheen"

#scaryfairies In 1317 the Bronach of Burren appeared at Lough Rasga, County Clare as Seean mac Craith records, washing the bodies of soldiers about to be killed in battle in blood. "She was thatched with elf locks, foxy grey and rough like heather, matted and like long sea-wrack"

Circe, enchantress, polypharmakos, mistress of Aeaea, lover of Odysseus. Jacob Jordaens Ulysses threatening Circe (1630), Circea in Boccaccio's De Claris Mulieribus, Frederick Church's Circe (1910), Michael Wolgemut Circe and Ulysses (1493) #folklorethursday

Walter Crane's Flora's Feast: A Masque of Flowers (1889). The flower fairy is born.... #folklorethursday

Walter Crane's A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden (1898) creates a folkloresque treatment of flowers. Each bloom is given a #fairytale character. #folklorethursday