Maude Fromeさんのイラストまとめ

Playing long into the night....
#Art by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, 1930.
#FairyTaleTuesday

“Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.” #Illustrations from Walter Crane’s book of #nurseryrhymes, The Song of Sixpence Picture Book, published in 1909. #FolkloreThursday #Edwardian

Apparently vampires adore blackberries so much they cannot pass a bush without counting each berry. This makes a blackberry bush the ideal protection if planted near your front door, as the vamp will be so distracted he will forget to enter your home. #FairytaleTuesday Img: CMB

Off to the #sabbat to meet all those other #witches who have shape-shifted into black cats.
#walpurgisnight #Walpurgisnacht #FaustianFriday
#Artist: Maggie Vandewalle

The Uncivilised Cat, by Agnes Miller Parker, 1930. #Caturday #CatsOfTwitter #cat #art

An undine is a water nymph who gains a soul when she marries a human, but will die if he is unfaithful to her. A version of this myth was a popular C19th novella, wherein Undine returns to the water & her kiss kills her unfaithful husband. #FairyTaleTuesday Img: Rackham, 1909

Young Woman with Unicorn, Raphael c.1505 & Unicorn, Maerten de Vos c.1590. At this time the #unicorn was generally believed to be real & its “horn” sold as a cure-all against poison. Elizabeth 1 had a unicorn horn to keep her safe from harm. #FaustianFriday #NationalUnicornDay

In medieval Northern Europe butter was big business. If it was ruined, & a fortune lost, it was believed the milking had been done by a witch -“the devil’s milkmaid”, or her familiar the milk hare, itself a shape-shifted witch, & the churning by the devil. #FolkloreThursday

“To his music, plants and flowers
Ever sprung; as sun and showers
There had made a lasting spring.”
Henry VIII, Act 3, Sc 1
#ShakespeareSunday
Img: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, 1920s
#HappyEaster #Easter

Lily of the Valley is one of the lilies of #Easter. Originally linked to Ostara, the ancient Germanic goddess of spring, the flower symbolises the arrival of new light & life. Since C15th it has been used as a symbol of the Virgin Mary. #FolkloreThursday #Easter2021 Img: CMB