Flamenco Nut 🍄さんのイラストまとめ

Wearing symbolic love rings on the third finger of the left hand can be traced back to the ancient Egyptians, who believed that a vein, or channel, of love ran from the heart to that particular finger #FolkloreThursday

#illustration by John Bauer

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Thomas Maybank (1869-1929, English) #illustration of Bottom in Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream"

1 A troll wizard fashions a mirror that distorts all reflected in it. He and his acolytes wreak havoc by gnarling up all who gaze upon their mirror. Seeking to mess with the angels, they go to carry the glass up to heaven, but it drops, and shatters to splinters #FairyTaleTuesday

Alfred Smedberg's 'The Boy who was Never Afraid' #FairyTaleTuesday
“Here is a piece of magic herbs for you. Pop it in your ear, and you will be able to understand everything the animals say, as long as you are in the woods.”
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#illustration by John Bauer

In 'Bortbytingarna', Helena Nyblom tells of a princess abducted + kept by trolls, who swapped her with a baby troll they'd also stolen #FairyTaleTuesday Both changelings feel sad, so each sets off in search for a happy place...
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#illustration John Bauer

~ "Will you just leave me like that?" called the sea king in a voice full of pain. "Shall I just return to my realm as lonely as ever?" ~
from the story 'Agneta and the Sea King'
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#FairyTaleTuesday

#illustration by John Bauer

#FairyTaleTuesday #illustration by Aina Stenberg MasOlle (1885-1975, Swedish)
Aged 10 she sold her card designs to a publisher. She rebuilt an old rural log house to live in with her husband + kids. She was a prolific illustrator, inspired by the tales told by her country folk

@ElliottBlackwe3 Racey Helps' #illustration of the anthropomorphic world he drew for his woodland animals is always a winner, he had a gentle humourous touch.

A butterfly #illustration this #BrianWildsmithDay

from "Animal Seasons", first published in 1980 #Wildsmith90

2/2 #illustrationart by Feodor Rojankovsky, in "The Tall Book of Nursery Tales", (Harper and Rox 1992), copyrighted to Artist & Writers Guild Inc., 1944
#FairyTaleTuesday

2. from "The Pot that Wouldn't Stop Boiling"