Maude Fromeさんのイラストまとめ

“The Duke returned from the wars today & did pleasure me in his top-boots.”

Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660-1744), wife of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough & favourite of Queen Anne. #BookWormSat
Portrait by Charles Jervas, c.1715

The foxglove originally symbolised riddles & conundrums, probably because in Old Irish it was “folksglove”, the “folks” being the fairies with all their tricks. The “glove” may have been Anglo-Saxon “gliew” - bells on a frame. Foxgloves were also “fairy bells”. #FolkloreThursday

Beatrix Potter based Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny on 2 of her own pets. Her first rabbit was named Benjamin Bouncer. He loved buttered toast & was taken for walks on a lead. He was followed by Peter Piper who performed tricks & accompanied Beatrix everywhere. #FolkloreSunday

Meet the Boto Cor de Rosa. He is a pink dolphin who emerges from the Amazon river at night during the June Festivities & shapeshifts into a handsome man, looking to lure young women away from parties for seduction by the riverbank before disappearing at sunrise. #SuperstitionSat

In Irish tradition speedwell was regarded as a good luck charm. Often found along verges or byways, it was sewn into clothing to give protection from accidents, especially on journeys when “speed well” possibly meant “godspeed” or “safe journey.”#FolkloreThursday Img: CMB

Peter Rabbit loses one shoe among the cabbages & the other amongst the potatoes & his escape from Mr McGregor is impeded by getting caught in a gooseberry net by his buttons. He loses his jacket while escaping a giant sieve & finally runs home in no clothes!! #FolkloreSunday

Hawthorn flowers are also called #May blossom. They are sacred to the goddess Brighid when she brings new life & fertility & appear from April until June. Known as a faery tree, the hawthorn should never be harmed, & brings love & healing to the heart. #SuperstitionSat #Beltane

#Walpurgisnacht takes place on the night of 30 April, #MayDay Eve, when witches meet on the Brocken mountain in Germany, & hold revels with the devil. This year it coincides with the rising #BlackMoon. #FaustianFriday #GothicSpring #ofdarkandmacabre Img: Joseph Tomanek, c.1920

“And maidens call it ‘love-in-idleness’...
The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid
Will make or man or woman madly dote
Upon the next live creature that it sees.”
So Oberon plans to enchant Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. (Act 2 Sc 1) #FairyTaleTuesday

Lily of the Valley is one of the lilies of #Easter. Originally linked to Ostara, the ancient Germanic goddess of #spring, the flower symbolises the arrival of new light & life. #Easter2022 #SuperstitionSat Image: Cicely Mary Barker