🇵🇸 Sarah Nour 🇱🇧さんのイラストまとめ

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

In Iceland, there's an old belief that dreaming of a white sheep means it's going to snow the next day. Perhaps because of this association, knitting with wool outdoors is traditionally discouraged, as it's believed to prolong winter. #SuperstitionSat

The tale "Julnar of the Sea" tells of a Persian king who falls in love with a new concubine, described as having a face like the moon & long black tresses. The concubine, Julnar, reveals she's a mermaid princess from an underwater kingdom. #FairyTaleTuesday

The 2nd-century martyr Saint Quiteria was one of nine sisters imprisoned in a tower for refusing to marry Roman officers. Not only did they escape, they also liberated other Christian prisoners & went on to wage guerilla warfare against the Roman Empire. #TempleThursday

The Hollow Earth Theory proposes the earth's core is hollow or contains another world. This was first depicted in the satirical sci-fi novel Niels Klim's Underground Travels (1741), in which a man discovers a smaller planet inside earth while cave-diving. #WyrdWednesday

The Ozark Howler has been sighted in the Ozark Mountains since the early 1800s. Described as bear-shaped with stocky legs, horns, shaggy black fur, & glowing red eyes, it emits a cry that sounds like a mix of a wolf's howl, an elk's bellow, & a hyena's laugh. #WyrdWednesday

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

In "Clever Gretel," a chef eats the chickens she cooked for her master & his guest. So she tells the guest her master wants to cut off his ears, & he flees. She then tells her master the guest stole the chickens, & he runs off to chase the guest with a knife. #FairyTaleTuesday

Der Struwwelpeter (1895) by Heinrich Hoffmann is a German collection of rhyming cautionary tales for children. For example, a girl plays with matches & burns to death. A boy who sucks his thumb gets his thumb cut off. A boy who refuses soup starves to death. #WyrdWednesday

In the Algonquin legend "How Glooscap Found the Summer," a deadly winter threatens the lives of the hero Glooscap's people. So he goes on a journey to capture the Summer Giantess, promising to release her once she defeats the Winter Giant. #FairyTaleTuesday