Maude Fromeさんのイラストまとめ

“Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.” Walter Crane’s #illustrations for The Song Of Sixpence Picture Book, published in 1909. #NurseryRhyme
#FolkloreThursday #Edwardian #GoldenAge

“The apple never falls far from the tree”- you always end up resembling your parents in some ways. Referred to in a 16th century German book of #proverbs, but probably ancient Ottoman.
#FolkloreThursday
Image: The Crab-Apple Fairy, Cicely Mary Barker, c.1935

“Rowan tree & red thread make witches tine their speed”- an ancient #Scottish rhyme. Known also as witchentree & witchwood, the Rowan was planted by homes to protect them from harm, & by churches in #Wales to watch over & protect the dead.
Image: Cicely Barker #FolkloreThursday

Eric Ravilious, Rye Harbour, 1938. #EastSussex #artist #Artlovers #1930s
#arte #Rye #watercolour #twitart #art

#HappyBirthday #BeatrixPotter, #English #writer, #illustrator & #wildlife lover. Born on 28th July 1866, in #Kensington #London
#ChildrensBooks #childrensauthor #illustration #arte

The #NewMoon in #Cancer, at 3:47 am on 13th July, rules all white flowers. Their petals bring gentle healing to a new moon that is sensitive, nurturing, tearful & introspective, & opposes the lord of darkness, Pluto, in #Capricorn.
Images: Cicely Barker
#FolkloreThursday

White Bindweed belongs to Saturn, ruler of witchcraft. No gardener’s friend, its strong, tangled vines are used in binding spells on the dark of the moon. They also form a bridge between this world & the unseen realms in threshold magic. Image: Cicely Barker #FolkloreThursday

Love-in-Idleness & Heart’s-ease are folk names for the Wild Pansy. This flower is the basis of Oberon’s love potion in A #Midsummer Night’s Dream, causing fairy queen Titania to fall in love with the first thing she sees after sleeping. Image: Cicely Barker #FolkloreThursday

The #Celtic tree month of Hawthorn begins on 13 May. The May tree, it gifts love & healing to the heart & is sacred to the goddess Brighid when she brings new growth & fertility. Known as a faery tree, the hawthorn should never be harmed. Illust: Cicely Barker
#FolkloreThursday

“On the bat’s back do I fly..” Ariel, The Tempest, Act 5:Sc 1
#Illustrations: Louis Rhead, early C20th, Edmund Dulac, 1908, Paul Woodroffe, 1908,
HC Selous, c.1890 #ShakespeareSunday