Maude Fromeさんのイラストまとめ

The blackthorn rules the dark half of the year from #Samhain. It is dark moon magic, an “increaser of secrets.” Its thorns are the pins in a poppet, its wands used for cursing. A tree protected by faeries, its berries are the sloe. #FolkloreThursday #Halloween Img: Cicely Barker

For those anxious to keep vampires at bay this #Halloween - the rosehip should do the trick. Its thorns, strategically placed around a vampire’s grave can trap it therein, whilst the hips, when thrown, can stop an out & about vampire in their tracks. #FaustianFriday #Samhain

The Ice Maiden by Edmund Dulac, from The Dreamer of Dreams, published in 1915 by Hodder & Stoughton. The Ice Maiden, guarded by her bears, searches for broken hearts at night. She keeps them alive in her castle by warming them in a circle of flames. #FolkloreThursday

Blackberries carry the devil’s curse on those who eat them after #Michaelmas (30 Sep in the modern calendar) but can save your home from vampires. If a bush is planted nearby a vampire gets distracted by counting the berries, & forgets his harmful intentions. #FairyTaleTuesday

In the orchards of England it is lore that at the end of each #harvest the last apple should be left on the tree for the Apple Tree Man. He is the spirit who lives in the oldest tree & bestows fertility on the orchard. #Mabon #AutumnEquinox #Autumn #Fall #FolkloreThursday Img: CB

The crystal ball was very popular in the mid C19th as fortune tellers strove to stay within the law by shaking off the vestiges of folk magic. It was used by clairvoyants to scry for images of the future & by occultists to get in touch with angels & the dead. #FaustianFriday

Domestic life by Beatrix Potter. #FairyTaleTuesday #illustration

The mallow plant in French is ‘mauve’, & this is where the colour derives its name. Discovered in 1856, the colour became so popular that the 1890s were known as the ‘mauve decade.’ As for mallow, the ancients often used it in erotic potions. #FolkloreThursday Img: Cicely Barker

Edmund Dulac’s #illustrations for Stories from the Arabian Nights, @HodderBooks, 1907. This Golden Age edition proved so popular that during WW1 copies were sent to troops in the trenches, in an effort to provide comfort through childhood nostalgia. #FairyTaleTuesday

Siamese Cat & Butterfly, & Two Siamese Cats (both c.1939) by Agnes Miller Parker. #Scottish #artist & #engraver @NatGalleriesSco #Caturday #CatsofTwittter #cats