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'Cinderella' - Edward Burne-Jones.
#FairyTaleTuesday #preraphaelite

...children and eat them. However, with a bit of trickery, they managed to kill her and then escape into the woods. In some versions of the story they return home to their father. The art in this thread is from a children's picture book illustrated by Monique Felix.
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'Summer Evening' - Tomioka Eisen, ca. 1910.
#ukiyoe #art #Japan #summer

The Devil features in the Tarot Major Arcana as trump number 15. Here are four versions from the Italian Soprafino, IIJ Swiss, Vacchetta and Alchemical. This article has more examples and lots of great info about the tarot devil:
https://t.co/7BJQtr6WFW
#FaustianFriday #tarot

This #ukiyoe print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1882) is titled 'Midair Collision' and depicts two tengu (half-bird half-human #yokai) with noses colliding. The left tengu carries a letter box of the Edo era and the other carries a bag of the new postal system...
#FolkloreThursday
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Ukiyoe prints often depicted #yokai in scenes from #JapaneseFolklore and/or kabuki plays. This one by Nansuitei Yoshiyuki (1863) depicts actors Fujikawa Tomokichi III (right) as the spirit of a monster serpent, and Onoe Tamizo II (left) as Yurugi Saemon.
#FolkloreThursday #ukiyoe

In East Asia there is a type of black magic conducted by women that is known in China as 'gu' and in Japan as 'kodoku.' It involves sealing several venomous insects (eg. scorpion, centipede) in a jar & allowing them to kill each other until only one survives.
#FaustianFriday
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In Greek mythology it was said that poisonous wolfsbane (aconite) fell from the saliva of the three-headed dog Cerberus. Its name reflects its original use as poisoned wolf bait. It was also used to poison people and was associated with witchcraft.
#FaustianFriday
🎨William Blake

...villages of the Izu Islands. Those who saw them were believed to be sent mad and doomed die. On this night each year, locals stay locked in their homes, too scared to go out.
🎨1. Matthew Meyer
2. Shinichi from 'Yurei Attack'
3. 'Izu Dogashima' - Kawase Hasui, 1937
#ukiyoe
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Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill, 'Rain, Rain, Go Away,' Jack Sprat and His Wife, and A Ring of Roses.
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