🇵🇸 Sarah Nour 🇱🇧さんのイラストまとめ

The firefox ran as fast as the wind through the snowy hills, her tail whipping colorful sparks into the sky—what humans called the aurora borealis.

They'd never catch her. But the #hunt thrilled her. She whipped her tail harder to taunt her pursuers.

#vss365

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

In the myths of many Native American tribes, thunder is caused by the flapping wings of the enormous thunderbirds. Thunderbirds were believed to be large enough to carry whales in their talons. Some myths claim they also control lightning, rain & hail. #FolkloreThursday

White Buffalo Calf Woman is a sacred figure to the Lakota people. She appeared to them during a famine, bestowed a holy ceremonial pipe, & taught them the Seven Sacred Rites to maintain balance among humans, the natural world, & the wider universe. #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

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

Sin-eating is an ancient ritual that involves symbolically consuming the sins of a recently deceased person. It's still practiced in some places, including Upper Bavaria. A cake is placed on the chest of the deceased & then eaten by a relative. #FolkloreThursday

In the late 1980s, instances of property damage in Lee County, South Carolina started getting attributed to the Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp. Said to leave teeth & claw marks on the cars he attacks, he's described as seven feet tall with green scales & red eyes. #WyrdWednesday

Kothar-wa-Khasis is a Ugaritic god of many talents: smith, craftsman, architect, inventor, soothsayer, & magician. He builds a palace for the god Ba'al out of cedar wood, silver, gold, & lapis lazuli, & makes gold & silver furniture for the goddess Athirat. #MythologyMonday

Beware of harvesting your fields on a hot day. Lady Midday will emerge from whirling dust clouds in the form of an old hag, a lovely woman, or a young girl, carrying a scythe. If you can't answer her riddles, she'll kill you by beheading or heat stroke. #SuperstitionSat