Maude Fromeさんのイラストまとめ

“On #TwelfthNight the dead walk, & on every tile of the house a soul is sitting, waiting for your prayers to take it out of purgatory.”

From Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland by Lady Jane Francesca Wilde, 1888 #FolkloreThursday #BookChatWeekly #Caturday

Snow Woman, by Tirzah Garwood, (1908-51). The wife of #artist #EricRavilious, she was a painter & engraver whose career went quiet during her marriage, but was resumed in the 1940s following her husband’s death. #FolkloreThursday #snow

The Spindle Berry, a winter beauty, is known as Robins’ Bread, as the #robin guards it from other birds. The berry’s name from the Greek is Euonymus, which is said to mean “lucky”, an irony because, although alluring, the red berries are poisonous to humans. #LegendaryWednesday

Once the snow yearned for colour as it had none, & the shy little snowdrop showed it a great kindness by offering up its colour when all the brighter flowers had sneeringly refused. In return the #snow protects the #snowdrop from the harshness of #winter. #FolkloreSunday

Some believe #Shakespeare brought a curse upon his own ‘Scottish Play’ by using authentic spells in the witches’ dialogue. Eerie happenings, including deaths on stage, over the last 400 years mean that now no one says ‘Macbeth’ in a theatre for fear of bad luck. #SuperstitionSat

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. It is renewal. #FolkloreThursday

#NewMoon in Sagittarius, 23 November 17:57 EST, 22:57 GMT. A new moon means new beginnings, & in fiery, mutable Sag it is the time to create them, with a sense of adventure, optimism & honesty, as we head towards the next full moon. #FairytaleTuesday #LegendaryWednesday

Oak, Ash & Thorn are trees sacred to the Celts, especially when found growing together. The oak brings healing & protection along with prosperity & luck. The ash brings prophecy & healing, & the hawthorn symbolises fertility & is a tree sacred to faeries. #SuperstitionSat

“The grief that does not speak knits up the o’er wrought heart & bids it break.” Macbeth 4:3 #ShakespeareSunday

The Ice Maiden, guarded by her bears, searches for broken hearts at night. She keeps them alive in her castle by warming them in a circle of flames. #FolkloreSunday

“Sing all a green willow...
The fresh streams ran by her, and murmur’d her moans
Her salt tears fell from her, and soften’d the stones...
Sing willow, willow, willow.”
Othello, 4:3
#ShakespeareSunday
#FolkloreSunday

The willow grows near water & symbolises grief & sorrow.