Signe Maene 🐦さんのイラストまとめ

Falling in love with John Anster Fitzgerald's fleeing sea sprites. 💙

Falling in love with this painting depicting Wotan and the sleeping Brunhilde by Ferdinand Leeke. 💙

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Falling in love with this faerie talking to a frog by (I think) Thomas Maybank. 🧚‍♀️💙

These are only three of many brilliant artworks by Warwick Goble who is mainly known for illustrating Indian and Japanese fairy tales.💙

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Cockaigne is a fantasy land from medieval myth where it rains cheese. The houses are made from sugar and cake. Baked fish jump out of the water and the streets are paved with pastry. There's plenty of wine and the shops give away their wares for free!

🎨Herrfurth
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Arduinna is a Celtic goddess who was worshipped in the Ardennes Forest. She was a huntress who rode a wild boar and is often associated with the Roman goddess Diana. Unfortunately Arduinna's only statue was demolished in the 6th century.🏹🐗

🎨Diana by Seignac
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It's impossible to fall out of love with John Reinhard Weguelin's mermaid art! 🧜‍♀️💙

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The Baobhan Sith are faeries who terrorise the Scottish Highlands. They love to dance, the colour green and are vulnerable to iron. They use their nails to drain their victims dry of blood. If the victim is female she will return as one of them.

🎨Beattie-Brown
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In 1862 two men who were transporting timber in Wales saw fifty fairy-like figures dancing near a hill before the figures vanished. Moments later, these fairies reappeared, formed a circle and danced. Then, one by one they disappeared into the ground.

🎨Diefenbach
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William Blake claimed that he had once seen a fairy funeral.

'I saw a procession of creatures of the size and colour of green and gray grasshoppers, bearing a body laid out on a rose leaf, which they buried with songs, and then disappeared.'

🎨William Blake
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