Maude Fromeさんのイラストまとめ

The wren is the Druid Bird in Irish Gaelic & in Welsh the word ‘dryw’ means both druid & wren, as the bird symbolises wisdom & divinity, & its song is portentous. Harming its nest or killing a wren is very unlucky, & the wrong-doer may be struck by lightning. #FairytaleTuesday

#HappyNewYear, lovelies! Let’s hang on in there! Img: Cicely Mary Barker #NewYear2021 #HappyNewYear2021
#FolkloreThursday #FaustianFriday #NewYear

The Chess Players, by Sir John Lavery, 1929. @Tate
#SeasonsGreetings #ChristmasDay #BoxingDay #1920s #art

A nisse is a creature from Nordic folklore associated with #Yule & #Christmas. Similar in appearance to a garden gnome, he is accompanied by the Yule Goat, & knocks on doors on #ChristmasEve to give out gifts. Img: Christmas Nisse & Kersti, by Carl Larsson #FairyTaleTuesday

Pines & fir trees were loved by the Romans as a symbol of rebirth & life in the depths of winter. A live tree was brought into the home so the spirits that lived within would be warm in winter. Morsels of food were hung on the branches to nourish them. #FaustianFriday Img: CMB

Snow babies were popular on #Christmas cards in the early C20th. Created in Germany as cake decorations, their popularity spread due to the belief that the North Pole was reached in 1909. It is now known the expedition ended up about 60 miles away. #FairyTaleTuesday #Edwardian

The most ancient of trees, the #Yew symbolises death & #Saturn, but also the rebirth of light at the #WinterSolstice. It is Old Magic, dark dreams, otherworld journeys & connection to ancestors. It is perseverance leading to transformation & renewal. #FolkloreThursday Img: CB

#Krampus...as a woman. And her birch is not for children who have misbehaved! #FolkloreThursday #Krampusnacht

“Maidens call it ‘love-in-idleness.’ The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid
Will make or man or woman madly dote
Upon the next live creature that it sees.”
Thus Oberon uses Heartsease to enchant Titania in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Act 2 Sc1) #FairyTaleTuesday

#BeatrixPotter (1866-1943) transformed animal #illustrations in children’s literature. #FairyTaleTuesday