🇵🇸 Sarah Nour 🇱🇧さんのイラストまとめ

In Greek myth, a demigod named Tantalus plays a prank on the gods to test their omniscience: he kills his son Pelops, then chops, cooks, & serves him to the gods at a banquet. Zeus has Pelops resurrected & angrily sentences Tantalus to eternal torture. #MythologyMonday

In 2004, Pemba Dorji wrote this of his experience in scaling Mount Everest: “When I paused at a mound of rocks, I saw some spirits in the form of black shadows coming towards me, stretching their hands & begging for something to eat." #WyrdWednesday

@literElly The memes for this scene are GOLD.

The Beast of Bray Road is a large, red-eyed, bipedal cryptid resembling a bear or a wolf, sighted on rural roads in Wisconsin & Illinois as far back as 1936. It attacks vehicles, leaving long claw marks. Theorists claim it's either a werewolf or a wendigo. #WyrdWednesday

Ahools are giant carnivorous bats with 10-foot wingspans believed to inhabit rainforests in Java, Indonesia. According to eyewitnesses, they swoop down to snatch up humans with their claws & devour them. Some believe they're descended from pterosaurs. #WyrdWednesday

"Maybe we shouldn't have named the dog #Valor."

"Why's that?"

"He's scared of my Power Rangers mask."

"Well, we're not changing his name and giving him an identity crisis, so you'll just have to find another Halloween costume."

#vss365

@laurcunn

@ElaineBrandon Cookie Pickle-Pants!

Santa coming down a chimney has its roots in medieval Europe. It was believed witches invaded homes that way. In Scottish lore, house spirits called brownies enter homes via chimney to do chores. In Irish lore, the evil bodach comes down chimneys to kidnap kids. #WyrdWednesday

Kelpies are shapeshifting water spirits who lure people into lakes & drown them. The Scottish folktale "The Kelpie & the Ten Children" is a cautionary tale of children lured onto a beautiful horse's back, only for the horse to jump into a lake. #FairyTaleTuesday