Maude Fromeさんのイラストまとめ

It is often overlooked that once it had been arranged that Persephone would stay in the underworld for 6 months every year (one month for each pomegranate seed she had eaten), as Pluto’s queen she became his equal in ruling the underworld, & did so very well. #LegendaryWednesday

Adrienne Segur (1901-1981) was a #French children’s book #illustrator. Here is an example of her #art from The Golden Bird & Other Stories (1950s). #BookWormSat

The Bed-Time Book, by Helen Hay Whitney, 1907. #Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith, one of America’s most popular & prolific children’s #illustrators. #BookWormSat #childrensliterature #BookChatWeekly

“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 #moon #art #nursery #dreams #BookWormSat

#HappyBirthday to the creator of The Flower Fairies, Cicely Mary Barker. Born OTD 28 June 1895, in Croydon (at the time Greater London). Her first book, Flower Fairies of the Spring, was published in 1923. Image: The Sweetpea Flower Fairies. #FairyTaleTuesday #NewMoon in Cancer

Iris, goddess of the rainbow, by Arthur Rackham, 1921. #MythologyMonday

The Sun as God. #SummerSolstice #SummerSolstice2022 #sun #art #FairyTaleTuesday Image: Edvard Munch, 1909.

Honeysuckle (woodbine) is the birth flower of #June, along with the rose. Twined around the front door it will protect your house from harm, & placed in a vase it will attract money. To Chaucer “wodebyne” symbolised steadfastness in love. #FairyTaleTuesday Img: Cicely Mary Barker

In Japanese folklore a Kitsune is a fox that can shapeshift into human form. This is often to act as a trickster but also as a faithful guardian. It can have up to 9 tails, reflecting age & wisdom. A kitsune can also become invisible & generate fire & lightning. #SuperstitionSat

“Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile,
Hath not old custom made this life more sweet than that of painted pomp?”
As You Like It, Act II, Sc 1
#ShakespeareSunday #FolkloreSunday
Image: John Leigh Pemberton