🇵🇸 Sarah Nour 🇱🇧さんのイラストまとめ

Tales of selkies (shapeshifting seal women in Scottish lore) often romanticize bride kidnapping. In "The Selkie Bride," a man steals a selkie's sealskin. She begs him to return it, but he forces her to stay on land & marry him. Somehow she comes to love him. #FairyTaleTuesday

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

In the Greek fairy tale "The Sleeping Prince," a princess must watch a cursed prince sleep for three months, three weeks, three days, three hours, & three half-hours without sleeping. Then, when the prince sneezes, she must bless him to lift the curse. #FairyTaleTuesday

At the end of Hans Christian Anderson's "The Little Mermaid," the mermaid dies. Because merfolk don't have immortal souls & can't enter heaven, she joins the daughters of the air, benevolent spirits who do good deeds for 300 years to earn immortal souls. #FairyTaleTuesday

In Finnish, the aurora borealis is called revontulet, meaning “fox fires." The mythical tulikettu, or firefox, runs through the snowy hills of the far north, its tail whipping colorful sparks into the sky. No hunter can catch the firefox, as it's fast as wind. #MythologyMonday

In Aztec myth, the goddess Chantico ("she who dwells in the house") reigns over the fires in the family hearth. She guards homes from thieves & brings wealth & stability to families. She's often portrayed sitting on a chair with a flask under it. #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. #FolkloreThursday

In Greek myth, a sphinx guards the city of Thebes & won't allow travellers to enter unless they answer a riddle. When they guess wrong, & she devours them. The Greek hero Oedipus finally answers correctly, & the sphinx throws herself off a cliff to her death. #FolkloreThursday

In Japanese myth, eating the flesh of a ningyo (a mermaid-like creature) grants longevity. In the fairy tale "Yao Bikuni," a fisherman's daughter eats ningyo & lives to be 800. But catching a ningyo is bad luck, so sailors usually throw them back into the sea. #FairyTaleTuesday

In the Iraqi version of Cinderella, called "The Little Red Fish & the Clog of Gold," a girl befriends a talking fish she rescues from a fisherman's net. He gives her a dress & golden shoes so she can attend a party against her cruel stepmother's wishes. #FairyTaleTuesday