Maude Fromeさんのイラストまとめ

The Norns were the 3 Norse sisters of fate - past, present & future. When they weren’t hanging out under Yggdrasil, watering its roots & dispensing advice to the gods, they were spinning & weaving the threads of fate for each child at birth. #FairyTaleTuesday (artist unknown)

Traditionally at #Halloween benign ancestors were honoured & invited into the home. Special food was prepared in their honour & a place set at the table, while apples were often buried near the front door as an offering to the dead as they came through the veil. #MythologyMonday

In human eyes (and most mammals’ & birds’) the iris controls the size of the pupil & the amount of light reaching the retina. Eye colour is defined by the iris. It is named thus after the Greek goddess of the rainbow, who served as a messenger of the gods.
#MythologyMonday

“Many haws, many snaws, many sloes, many cold toes.”

So there might be lots of sloe gin, but a cold, snowy winter is foretold. #LegendaryWednesday
Image: The Sloe Fairy by Cicely Mary Barker, 1926

As well as carrying the devil’s curse on all those who eat them after #Michaelmas on 29th September, blackberries can protect your home against vampires. If planted nearby, a vampire gets distracted by counting the berries & forgets his harmful intentions. #SuperstitionSat

“Wynken, Blynken and 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, for Verses for Children, 1918. #night #dreams #moon #art #LegendaryWednesday

I would love to travel with Iris on a rainbow, delivering messages from the Greek gods to humans, & then to help her as she collected water in a pitcher from the River Styx for the gods swear oaths by. If found to have lied, they lost their voices for 7 years. #MythologyMonday

“The ripest fruit first falls...”
Richard II, Act 2, Sc 1
#ShakespeareSunday #FolkloreSunday
Image: The Crab-Apple Fairy by Cicely Mary Barker, 1926 #autumn

In #Scotland, witches were believed to turn into hares after drinking the juice of the harebell. This juice, lore tells, also helped them to fly. #LegendaryWednesday #fullmoon Image: Cicely Mary Barker, 1925

‘She was known to have studied magic while she was being brought up in the nunnery.’

Morgan Le Fay, enchantress & half-sister to King Arthur, as portrayed by William Henry Margetson, for Legends of King Arthur and His Knights, (James Knowles, 1914). #FairyTaleTuesday