Karen Sloanさんのイラストまとめ

The Pot of Basil (1818), by John Keats, is adapted from #Boccaccio's Decameron (IV, 5). It tells the tale of Isabella, whose family intend to marry her to "some high noble & his olive trees". Instead, she falls for Lorenzo, her brothers' employee. 🪴 #poetry

Cassandra, admired by god Apollo, sought to win her love with the gift of prophecy. Cassandra promised Apollo her 'favours', but after receiving his gift, went back on her word. Enraged, Apollo added a curse; nobody would ever believe Cassandra's prophecies. 💔 #MythologyMonday

@TheRena44620640 I totally forgot about the Goblin Market. Thanks for the mental nudge! Haven't read it in decades. Will have to read your thoughts. (Didn't see it in my feed, sorry!) Have to add, Rackham's illustrations for Rossetti's words are a perfect match. 🙂

"With new greene, and maketh small flours
To springen here and there in field and in mede
So very good and wholsome be the shoures
That it renueth that was old and deede."

The Floure and the Leafe, ca 1490, author unknown
🌸🌿 #BookWormSat #medieval

'Agneta & the Lake King', by Helen Nyblom, tells us of Agneta, abducted by the Lake King & wed to him; his underwater queen for 7 years, who forgets her human existence on land. Recalling it by chance, she finds her way back home. 🪄 #FolkloreThursday #NationalStorytellingWeek

A Tsar's 2 jealous sisters throw his wife & their newborn son into the sea. Castaways on a remote island, the prince grows up fast. He saves a #swan, (an enchanted princess) whom he marries. They reunite with the Tsar, & he deals with those nasty aunts. 🪄 🦢 #FairyTaleTuesday

As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods;
They kill us for their sport.

King Lear, act IV sc I
#ShakespeareSunday

".. the fairies just came & breathed on the Princess's garden, & everything that was bright to see & sweet to smell grew up in it." 🌷

The Other Side of the Sun: Fairy Stories by Evelyn Sharp, ca 1900, (public domain)
🪄 #BookWormSat #ChildrensBooks #fairytales

Legends of pig-faced women speak of ladies with human bodies & the face of a pig; a result of #witchcraft. 🐷 If the husband, having claim to how others see her, tells her that choice is hers alone, the #enchantment is broken. 🪄 Her face returns to a human form. #FaustianFriday

@Billius27 I agree. Unfortunately the world is awash with tabloid style infotainment, click-bait media, sensationalist propaganda, & yellow journalism, which brings more profit than doing the right thing. 🐕 The tail wags the dog. #CdnMediaFails