🌼🍋Helencello🍋🌼さんのイラストまとめ

In Greek mythology, Helen was the most beautiful woman in the age of the heroes. Wife of Menelaus of Sparta, she eloped with Paris of Troy.The Greeks waged a 1O yr war against Troy to win her back.Christopher Marlowe called her the face that launched 1000 ships #FolkloreThursday

In Olde English folklore, Bluebells were said to ring when the fairies needed to gather, but if a human heard, it was said to be their death knell, and so its said to be unlucky to walk on a bed of bluebells, because it will anger the fairies resting there. #FolkloreThursday

The Rollright Stones,Oxfordshire. Myth says they are a king and his army who was challenged by a witch saying if he could see Long Compton he would be King of England. As he moved a mound rose up obscuring the view. The witch turned the King and army to stone #MythologyMonday

The Gytrash. One of the most menacing creatures in Northern English folklore. Said to be a gigantic black dog with eyes that shone red like glowing coals, it led unwary, lost travellers astray and to their doom. #FolkloreThursday

Peg Powler: A water spirit of the River Tees in North East England. Taking the form of an old woman with green skin & green hair, she grabs the ankles of those on the water's edge,pulls them in & drowns them. Green foam on the water is said to show her presence #FolkloreThursday

Folklore dying out!!! I dont think so!!!
Look at the popularity of @FolkloreThurs @DrSamGeorge1 @MythicalBritain @mytangledgarden and others. https://t.co/AKZGMeEhME