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Peter Pan #illustration, by Marjorie Torrey (1899 - 1964, American) #FairyTaleTuesday #vintage
#FairyTaleTuesday #Illustration by Charles Folkard from ‘Jolly Calle and Other Swedish Fairy Tales’, pub. 1912 #vintage
Red Riding Hood #illustration llustration c.1812 by Alexander Davis Cooper (1830-1888, British), #FairyTaleTuesday
#vintage
"My arm is nothing weak, my strength is not gone by"
William Heath Robinson #vintageillustration for a Rudyard Kipling poem "England's Answer". #FairyTaleTuesday
A #vintageillustration for "Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp", by Thomas Blakeley MacKenzie (1887 - 1944) #FairyTaleTuesday
To Ancient Greeks Sicily + Aeolian Islands were an earthly paradise home to gods + heroes #FolkloreThursday Hades abducted goddess Demeter's daughter Persephone from Sicily to his underworld. Her loss is marked by Autumn + Winter, her return by Spring + Summer
🎨 David Schlosser
#FolkloreThursday
#June is popular in folklore. Some say that if you see bats flying on a June evening, it's a sign hot weather's on its way. Also, if swallows fly near to the ground, it means rain is due, + 'a swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon'
🎨 Edmond Dulac
#China The Goddess Weaver, daughter of the Celestial Queen Mother, and Jade Emperor, floated down on a moonbeam. She wove the stars and their glow, into "Silver River" (Milky Way), to shine over heaven and earth #folklorethursday
🎨 #illustration by Honor Charlotte Appleton
#Eire Legend tells of spectral ‘fetches’, spitting images of living mortals, (sim doppelgänger). A sighting was taken as foreboding the demise of the person they resembled, UNLESS the fetch shows up in the morning, when it signifies longevity #folklorethursday
🎨 Elinore Abbott
#FolkloreThursday 'Snegorochka'. the story of a girl made of snow who comes alive, only to melt when she goes near fire. In some parts of Russia, folk still mark transition from winter to spring by the traditional burning of a straw doll on a bonfire, to dispel Winter.