Buket Akgünさんのイラストまとめ

Atropa belladonna, aka deadly nightshade, is a poisonous and deadly plant which grows among ruins and in wastelands. Its genus name comes from Atropos, the oldest of the three Fates. (Judika Illes's The Element Encyclopedia of Witchcraft, 154-155) #FolkloreThursday (1/3)

I've been looking through Stephen Jones's The Illustrated Frankenstein Movie Guide for a project. There are some daring crossovers. 📽️

Before joining the Akatsuki, Hidan was in the horror punk band Misfits.

In Chinese folklore, when Wang Hsiang's stepmother craved fish in winter,he lay naked on an ice pond to melt a hole out of which carp jumped. When Men Tsung's mother craved stewed bamboo shoots in winter,he searched the snow until he found a fresh-grown shoot. #FolkloreThursday

Boa Marigold can have snakes of fire instead of hair just like Salamander the snake god of fire. #FolkloreThursday #OnePiece (3/3)

Reminiscent of Medusa, Boa Hancock can turn to stone anyone looking at her with sexual desire. Boa Sandersonia can turn her hair into snakes to look like the eight-headed snake in Japanese folklore. #FolkloreThursday #OnePiece (2/3)

In archaic religions sacred rivers, ponds, wells were believed to lead to the underground womb of Mother Hel, also known as Dame Holle, the mother of all the children on earth. (Barbara Walker's The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets) #FolkloreThursday

In my afternoon class on #Halloween we discussed Scarlet Witch #5 by James Robinson, Javier Pulido and Muntsa Vicente, which manages to appose Samhain, Día de los Muertos, All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day using only visual language. 🌽💀👻

The pooka in Irish folklore brings bad luck. It causes blights after Samhain. Being a shapeshifter, it can be a goat, a white horse or a black dog. It assumes human form in British folklore & appears as Robin Goodfellow, half-goat & half-man, in Welsh folklore. #FolkloreThursday

"The Muse visits while you are writing, not before." —Roger Ebert

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