Godysseyさんのイラストまとめ

Stories once belonged exclusively to the Sky God, so Spider Anansi hatched a plan. Bringing the Sky God four impossible things, he won the right to stories, and shared them with the world. Now we are all trapped in Anansi's web, willing captives. #FolkloreThursday

Dawn leads to spring, at least in Japan: Amaterasu's absence left the world in deathly winter, so the dawn goddess Ame-no-Uzume danced with reckless abandon to bring back the sun. So spring was born, from Ame-no-Uzume's dance, and cherry blossoms too #WyrdWednesday

🖼: AnticiaJK

When Persephone emerges from the Underworld so too does life as Demeter finds joy and Persephone blossoms. Yet there is sorrow: Demeter knows because her daughter ate seeds of the Underworld, she belongs for part of the year. So are seasons born. #WyrdWednesday

🖼: W. Crane

Every St. Sebastian's Day he returns, hunting during the day: El Hombre Caiman is rhe Alligator Man of South American but Colombian folklore, a lycanthropic alligator that hunts for human flesh, a fisherman cursed for his perversion by the Magdalena River. #FairytaleTuesday

The first marriage ceremony in Japanese myth is between Izanagi and Izanami, marrying after consulting their disembodied forefathers. They walk around a pillar and compliment each other, but have to repeat it because Izanagi should speak first. #MythologyMonday

🖼: M. Meyer

Rhiannon had a proposition: stop her upcoming wedding to Gwawl ap Clud, and Pwyl can marry her. At the feast, a stranger asks a boon of Pwyl, which he grants: the man asks for Rhiannon, for he is Gwawl. It takes Rhiannon's cunning to overcome Gwawl. #MythologyMonday

🖼: Toradh

Sorlds collide in the fictional city of Newford, the setting of Charles de Lindt's series of urban fantasy novels where old and new world meet. Inspired by Celtic and indigenous folklore with a digital spin, Newford is home to all sorts of people and creatures. #FaustianFriday

Clothes in Japan could be deadly. Some kimonos, called kosode no te, could be possessed by the vengeful dead, such as prostitutes whose clients owed them money; or amgry belts, called jatai, strangling bad men in Ehime Prefecture. Watch yourself! #FolkloreThursday

🖼: M. Meyer

Every kitsune has a magical orb, it's hoshi no tama, kept in its tail or mouth in fox form. To have it is to have the power to make your wishes come true; but beware the fox's ire, for they need it to survive: they will give it, if they trust you. #FairytaleTuesday

🖼: D. Brine

@Vanhellsing550 @ChroniclesHound I looked into this recently for a piece I'm working on, Fomorian have been the deformed giants cursed with hideousness since the MM2 of 1e, though 4e adjusts their culture a bit and 5e retains their appearance from 4e which wasn't a major departure from 1-3e.