Mina Stillwaterさんのイラストまとめ

#GoodMorning It’s a new Day.
“Concentration #12”
“No man is helpless, because he represents a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones…[and that] repeated habits can reform [one’s] character.” #RajaYoga #SWAMIVIVEKANANDA

“Good Morning!” by Dorina Vozian

#FolkloreThursday
Norse Goddess of Death, Hel, child of Trickster Loki, dwells in the land that lies “downward & northward,” Niflheim or World of Darkness, consisting of 9 worlds. Unlike heroes of battle who go to Valhalla, Hel is reserved for those who do *not* fall in battle.

#SuperstitionSat
A 1604 Witchcraft Act in England made working w/spirits a capital offense. It referenced ‘familiars,’ believed to be a witch’s demonic companion, who taught the witch magic & shape-shifted to be used as spies for the witch.

#MythologyMonday #Kalevala
“The heroes of Finnish myth were often gifted from birth w/astounding magical powers & arcane wisdom. Lemminkainen, a shamanistic figure, was bathed as a baby to imbue him w/wisdom & magic.

“Lemminkainen & the Fiery Eagle” by Robert Wilhelm Ekman

Sleepwalking
(Somnambulism) occurs about 1-2 hrs after falling asleep in the non-REM stage of sleep, not during the dream stage. A sleepwalker perceives their environment differently & doesn’t recognize people they know.

The distressed sleepwalker, Lady MacBeth. [MacBeth, Act V]

#SuperstitionSaturday
Egregors [Fr. “wakefulness”], a non-physical entity, sometimes referred to as a thought-form, occurs when a group of people share a common motivation. An egregor is referred to as a “watcher” in the Book of Enoch. “Utherworlds The Clouding” by Philip Straub

#FolkloreThursday
“Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival…shapes & forms long since w/drawn before the tide of advancing humanity….gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts & kinds” ~Algernon Blackwood, The Call of #Cthulhu” Art by Grosnez

The Archangel Metatron
Art by Marius Michael-George

#FaustianFriday
Doppelgänger is German for “double walker.” [aka alter ego] In myths, they are a paranormal phenomenon of a ghost or double of a living person; mostly portrayed as a harbinger of bad luck or an evil twin. [see #LostHighway & #SecretWindow]

Art by AnotherWanderer

#WyrdWednesday
EVIL EYE LAND- is near the N. Pole & inhabited by a tribe of nomadic hunters. Certain of their women possess the evil eye & are powerful in magical arts, used for protection. Visitors are warned they may be bewitched or killed w/their stare.
Art by Una Woodruff