Psyche's Cinema - short filmsさんのイラストまとめ

In Teutonic mythology, Loki is the trickster troublemaker. One time he snuck up on Thor's wife, Sif, and cut off her famous long hair while she was sleeping. Here is Loki from the Icelandic Manuscript 18th c #LegendaryWednesday

Baba Yaga is a wonderful trickster/sometimes villian. #LegendaryWednesday

"The Little Match Girl" escapes her cold and poverty by gazing into her burning matches. "Phone Gal" has her inner poverty relieved (also temporarily) by gazing into a phone. #Fairytaletuesday short film here. https://t.co/O1VoWUg4s7

A Chinese dragon; a medallion above it shows the White Hare of the Moon, at the foot of a cassia tree, making elixir of immortality. Created by an artist from the Qing emperors' court #MythologyMonday

Pieter Brueghel the Elder - The Alchemist (1558, Ink on paper)

Dragons also feature prominently in alchemical prints. #FairytaleTuesday

Moses with horns! Scene from Walters manuscript - 1250 #FairyTaleTuesday

In the 1940s a BBC radio producer went to Scotland in search of selkies, myths of shape-shifting seal people. He treated them not as tall tales, but as cultural artefacts, believing that the stories were “the last vestiges of pagan belief, before the onset of the nuclear world https://t.co/40dOfKFzxL

"The very best of cooks are sorcerers, wizards, shamans and tricksters. They must be, for they are capable of powerful acts of transformation.
-Midori Snyder - In Praise of the Cooks

Alchemists in workshop engraving 1580
#folkloreSunday

Odysseus stays w the magical Circe (and then Calypso) “These siren goddesses initiate our hero & a grand transformation occurs, as he moves from self-serving power seeking male to ....a vision for the good of the kingdom and all its inhabitants.
-A Williams
#LegendaryWednesday