Rachel Louise Lawrenceさんのイラストまとめ

Stoorworm: giant venomous sea serpent with a forked tongue. Hatched into life by malignant spirits, his length was beyond telling. Unless supplied with food, he would expel a pestilential reek. He was slain by Assipattle.
#FairyTaleTuesday #SeaMyth #Stoorworm #Assipattle #Orkney

So many Rapunzel variants start with her mother's pregnancy cravings for a rare plant, often parsley, that is growing in a witch or fairy's garden, and when the theft is discovered, the unborn child is claimed as recompense.
#FairyTaleTuesday #Rapunzel #Parsley

Rose Red and her sister Snow White first appear in The Ungrateful Dwarf by Karoline Stahl (1821). This tale was expanded by Wilhelm Grimm and included in 3rd edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen (1837).
#FairyTaleTuesday #RoseRed #UngratefulDwarf

In the Italian Catskin variant, The She-Bear, an old woman provides the heroine, Preziosa, with a wooden stick that, when placed in her mouth, transforms her into a bear. She uses it to escape marriage to her father.
#FairyTaleTuesday #AnimalShapeshifters #Basile #Pentamerone