🇵🇸 Sarah Nour 🇱🇧さんのイラストまとめ

The Scandinavian festival of St. Lucia’s Day not only celebrates the Christian martyr Lucia of Syracruse, but it also involves Norse pagan traditions, such as lighting fires to ward off evil spirits that emerge during the winter solstice. #FolkloreThursday

Dongzhi (Winter Arrives) is an East Asian winter solstice festival, of which there are regional variations. Families get together to eat dumplings & tangyuan, drink rice wine, & gather in clan tombs to offer food & drink to their ancestors' spirits. #FolkloreThursday

Oscar Wilde wrote a fairy tale called "The Selfish Giant" about a giant who won't let anyone enter his garden. Miss Spring can't enter the garden, so Old Man Winter stays there. Then children sneak in to play & the snow melts, bringing Miss Spring at last. #FairyTaleTuesday

Scottish goddess Beira, Queen of Winter, appears as a blue-skinned hag carrying a magical staff that freezes the ground & a hammer for shaping hills & valleys. At the end of her seasonal reign, & she drinks from the Well of Youth to become young again. #FolkloreThursday

Sinbad the Sailor is the protagonist of an ancient Middle-Eastern story cycle involving uncharted islands, sea monsters, giants, slave traders, hidden treasures, & other adventures. He's portrayed as clever, reckless, amoral, & ridiculously lucky. #FolkloreThursday

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818)—the tale of a scientist who creates a humanoid monster—was influenced by many works, including the Greek myth of Pygmalion, a sculptor obsessed with a statue of a woman. He prays to make her come alive, then marries her. #WyrdWednesday

Yacatecuhtli is the Aztec god of commerce & business travelers. His symbol is a bundle of sticks. To honor him, merchants would travel with sticks. At night they'd tie them together & sprinkle them with blood from their ears. This guaranteed success in sales. #MythologyMonday

The roc is a giant mythical bird of prey, big enough to carry elephants in its talons, that appears in Middle Eastern legends, such as tales of Sinbad the Sailor. It could have been inspired by the Malagasy crowned eagle or the elephant bird, both now extinct. #MythologyMonday

In 1671, notorious thief & conman Thomas Blood stole the Crown Jewels of King Charles II. He was arrested, but the king was so impressed by his ingenuity that he pardoned him. When Blood died, his body was exhumed to ensure he didn't fake his death to avoid taxes. #WyrdWednesday

Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, defies King Creon, her uncle, to give her brother a proper burial, despite him being a traitor to the throne. When arrested, she claims the gods' laws are superior to man's. She later hangs herself in the tomb she's imprisoned in. #MythologyMonday