Signe Maene 🐦さんのイラストまとめ

'But then the times grew to such evil that the holy cup was caught away to Heaven, and disappeared.'
-Lord Tennyson

🎨Dante Gabriel Rossetti
#BookWormSat

In a legend from the Ardennes Forest a farmer forbade his daughter to marry the son of a fairy. The fairy took revenge. Hundreds of snakes crawled on the farm and sucked milk out of cows. No-one ever lived there again.

🎨Franz Stuck
#DontGoIntoTheWoods

A Flemish tale says that a man who drowned in a swamp could often be heard screaming. It was said that he sometimes called out for help. In other tales people who drowned in swamps were said to pull others into the water.

🎨Head of a Drowned Man - Théodore Géricault
#SwampSunday

"Whirl up, sea—
whirl your pointed pines,
splash your great pines
on our rocks,
hurl your green over us,
cover us with your pools of fir.'
-Oread, H.D.

🎨Bartolomeo Giuliano
#DontGoIntoTheWoods #BookChatWeekly

'About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.'
-Virginia Woolf

🎨Constantin Meunier
#OfDarkAndMacabre #BookChatWeekly

A Flemish folktale says that a man was offered wine by witches who were dancing under the moonlight at a spot called Witches Mountain. The witches suddenly disappeared and the cup changed into the leg of a horse.

🎨Emma Childs
#WyrdWednesday

A Flemish folktale says that a captain jumped into the sea when his ship was attacked without caring for his crew. When he died he roamed the sea for a thousand years as punishment. He was only seen when it was stormy. With good weather he hid in the dunes.

#FolkloreThursday

'...but now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other's blood.'
-Mary Shelley

🎨Cipriano Mannucci
#OfDarkAndMacabre

'The wolf ran as fast as he could, taking the shortest path, and the little girl took a roundabout way, entertaining herself by gathering nuts, running after butterflies, and gathering bouquets of little flowers.'
-Charles Perrault

🎨Graham Franciose
#BookWormSat

'I shall go down into the garden. Into the night.'
-Angela Carter

🎨Thomas Dewing