Godysseyさんのイラストまとめ

Merlin foretold a child born on May Day would be Arthur's fall, so every child born that day was rounded up and put on a ship, sinking off the coast. A furious Lot declared war on Arthur, having lost a son: but the son survived, and was not his. 'Twas Mordred. #FairyTaleTuesday

Ra ordered them apart, for their children would overthrow him: but Geb the Earth and Nut the Sky disobeyed. Nut stole light and made five extra days in which to have her children and as punishment, Ra ordered the two ever parted, never to meet again. #FairyTaleTuesday

Across a thousand years and lifetimes, long-suffering Midir waited until Etain was reborn, then revealed their past relationship. Realizing her love for the sidhe lord, she earned the ire of a king to spend eternity with the man who had waited as long. #FairyTaleTuesday

Japan's most famous horse is Matsukaze, the Wind in the Pines. An untameable horse, it took the untameable Maeda Keiji to conquer the horse. When at last Keiji died of old age after a lifetime in the field, Matsukaze escaped, riding into the wilds of history. #MythologyMonday

Forced to enter the Underworld, as she passed through each of its terrible gates Ishtar was forced to remove another layer of clothes. Through all the gates she went, meant to be humbled, but all it did was make the goddess more indignant. #FolkloreThursday

🖼: Roomyana

Tolkien's Dwarves, the standard for all fantasy since, are based largely on Norse myth, drawing particularly from Volsunga saga and its continental cousins, but also on the plight of the Jews: a noble people, looking to return home. #FairyTaleTuesday

🖼: @AlanLee11225760

While D&D fans show their age by recognizing them as either dog- or lizard-like baddies, Kobolds are less low-level adventurer bait and more a linguistic variant. The word Kobold is just a German variant on the word Goblin. #FairyTaleTuesday

🖼: T. DiTerlizzi

Wronged by the men in her life, Arianrhod unleashed her righteous anger not on her brothers but on her newborn son: she cursed him to be nameless, denied him a weapon and thus manhood, and to have no bride born: and each curse Llew overcame. #MythologyMonday

🖼: M. Jones

The Queen of Sheba is also called Bilquis, and paid homage to Solomon. The two became inseparable, though she proved a bad influence: polytheism returned to Israel. God brought both to heel and she returned home, some say with an heir. #FairyTaleTuesday

🖼: K. Carroll

For one thousand and one nights she put off her death: for at morning her husband put his wife to death. Each night she told a tale and left it unfinished, the Shah demanding the tale continue the next night and so sparing her. Clever Scheherazade! #FairyTaleTuesday

🖼: E. Alba