Betsy Cole (#Published #Fantasy #Author)さんのイラストまとめ

Norwegian #fairytale, White-Bear-King-Valemon is one of my favs! Where a young girl finds the white bear from her dreams. Who is really a King under the spell of a #witch. Our hero falls in love with the King & moves to his castle where he is human at night. #FairyTaleTuesday

#fairytale, The Story of King Frost. Where King Frost comes to the rescue of a kind & innocent girl who was left in the cold to die. #Frost gives her a chest of treasures & warm garments, saving her life. But he freezes her Stepsister, for she was rude & greedy. #FairyTaleTuesday

A fun #Foodie #Tales, The Enormous Turnip. Where an old man can't pull a gigantic turnip from his garden without the aid of everyone, even the smallest & weakest(a mouse). Just like #SquidGame he needed the participation of his entire land to pull out the turnip.#FolkloreThursday

Human sacrifice was a way of life for Ancient Mesoamerica. In the Aztec creation #myth Quetzalcoatl-Ehecatl stole bones from the Underworld to make the first humans. So sacrifices were a necessary apology to the gods, to nourish them with sacrificed blood & flesh.#mythologymonday

The gruesome French tale of Bluebeard. Leaving his new wife alone, Bluebeard tells her not to open a specific door. She does,falling into a bloodbath! With bodies of old wives hanging from the walls! Not able to clean the blood from the key; revealing her demise!#FolkloreThursday

According to Tagbanwa #mythology after death the soul lingers around for 7 days. Divided into 6 parts- the free soul (a.k.a. the true soul) & 5 secondary souls. Their Shaman also heals by returning lost parts of the human soul, often from the spiritual dimension. #MythologyMonday

'Tatterhood' the Norwegian #FairyTale about the Princesses born of magic. Where one was considered beautiful & the other ugly. When trolls attack the palace, the pretty one gets her head snatched off! To save her sister, Tatterhood must find the troll island. #FairyTaleTuesday

"The Dragon's Tail," where a brave boy leads his friends on an adventure. Determined to slay the #dragon, they quest to the caves & come across something round, slimy, & long lying on the path; a dragon's tail! Grabbing it, the dragon takes them for a ride!
#FairyTaleTuesday

In Mesopotamian #myth the Asipû were wizards & the the Barû were soothsayers. Declaring divine will through signs, omens & astrology. The Asipû performed apotropaic  #magic, while the Barû performed divination by reading messages upon the entrails of animals. #MythologyMonday

In the #FairyTale, Elf Mound; the Elf King plans to marry his 2 daughters to the Goblin King's daughters! Dishes for the night's festivities included skewered frogs, fungus salad made of mushroom seed, & hemlock. But at the last moment, the goblins get shut out!
#FairyTaleTuesday