Maude Fromeさんのイラストまとめ

“Wallflower, Wallflower, growing up so high. We great ladies don’t wish to die.” A C19th game. When your name is sung, you keep holding hands in a circle but turn to face the other way. This goes on until all are facing the other way, thus escaping death. #FolkloreThursday (CMB)

“The children are playing & hark! they are saying that Daffy-down-dilly is come up to town!” Part of a verse by Cicely Barker.
Flower lore says that giving just one daffodil will bring misfortune, while giving an abundance brings joy & happiness. #FolkloreThursday #StDavidsDay

Wynken, Blynken, & Nod one #night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe -
Sailed on a river of crystal light
into a sea of dew...”
A C19th bedtime #poem by Eugene Field
#Illustration by Margaret Tarrant #childrensliterature #nursery #art #dreams

“Nor Mars his sword, nor war’s quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.”
Sonnet 55
#ShakespeareSunday WW1 poster, Francis Ernest Jackson
@AmgueddfaCymru

The Zodiac Man was used in medieval medicine to ascertain the correct time for bloodletting & surgery. When the moon was in a body part’s corresponding zodiac sign or in aspect thereto, it was considered too dangerous to perform any kind of invasive treatment. #FolkloreThursday

Arthur pulling the sword from the stone & Lancelot slaying a fire-breathing dragon. From the Romance of King Arthur, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1917 #FairyTaleTuesday

St George has just slain the dragon & won the hand of Princess Sabra. Jane Burden, who went on to marry William Morris, was Rossetti’s model. His intense attraction to Jane, while he was involved with Lizzie Sidall, is a powerful subtext here. #FolkloreThursday #ValentinesDay

The wild pansy was turned into Love in-Idleness when Cupid misfired his arrow & imbued its juice with erotic love. Since then the juice has been used as a love potion, most famously in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The flower is also known as Heartsease. #FolkloreThursday Img: CMB

Springtime, by Pierre-Auguste Cot. A huge success upon being exhibited in Paris in 1873, the painting is now on display @metmuseum. #FairyTaleTuesday #ValentinesDay #Valentines #romance

“You have dancing shoes with nimble soles.” Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Sc 4
#ShakespeareSunday
Img: Cicely Mary Barker