Maude Fromeさんのイラストまとめ

It is often overlooked that once it was arranged that Persephone would return to the living world for 6 months every year, (one month for each pomegranate seed she had eaten), she became equal to Pluto in ruling the underworld & did so very well. #FolkloreThursday Img: Rossetti

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. #FairyTaleTuesday #Halloween Img: Cicely Barker

“Tis true. There’s magic in the web of it.” Othello, Act 3, Sc 4.
#ShakespeareSunday
The Crystal Ball, by John William Waterhouse, 1902

“For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.” Macbeth, Act 4, Sc 1.
#ShakespeareSunday
Img: The Three Witches from Macbeth, by Daniel Gardner, 1775.
L to R: Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, & Anne Seymour Damer.

Oizys was the ancient Greek goddess of misery, #anxiety, grief & #depression. She was one of the malevolent children of Nyx, goddess of the #night. The Romans renamed her Miseria, from which the word “misery” derives. Img: Burne-Jones
#WorldMentalHealthDay

Iris is the Greek goddess of the rainbow. The Greeks saw the rainbow as linking heaven & earth & Iris as linking gods & mortals. She travelled on the rainbow to all parts of the cosmos, bearing messages from the Olympians to gods & men. #FolkloreThursday Img: Arthur Rackham

@LunarLast Sending you the beautiful Lavender Fairy on this very grey, wet day. The full moon can bring out great sadness & I hope yours wanes with the moon. Sending love & best wishes. Mx

“The arms are fair,
When the intent of bearing them is just.”
Henry IV, Part 1, Act V, Sc 2
#ShakespeareSunday
The Beechnut Fairy, by Cicely Mary Barker #autumn

Helen Allingham,(1848-1926), was an #illustrator & #watercolour #artist. She influenced #VanGogh, & was the first woman to be admitted to the Royal Watercolour Society in 1890. @RWS_Art #Victorian #womensart #autumn #art

In the orchards of England it is lore that each #harvest, to ensure a good future crop, 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. #FairytaleTuesday #AutumnEquinox Img: CB