Karen Lee Streetさんのイラストまとめ

Some “Queen Bees”: Melissa (ancient Greece), Colel Cab (Mayan), Mellona (ancient Rome), Beyla (Norse), Austeja (Lithuania)-- Goddesses associated with bees, honey, beekeeping, fertility & survival of the world
Lovely 🎨by Q. Cassetti: https://t.co/MhCo4sXrl5
#FolkloreThursday

Cats
by Franz Marc (1880 –1916), Expressionist artist and founding member of Der Blaue Reiter.
#expressionism #Caturday

Mirror mirror on the wall,
Who is the most Evil Queen of them all?
Depictions of Snow White's nemesis by (c/w):
Jennie Harbour (1893-1959)
Wilhelmina Cornelia Drupsteen (1880–1966)
PJ Lynch (born #OTD 1962)
#FairytaleTuesday

A school… a pod… a gossip… a glimmer
of #mermaids

🎨by #Victorian artist Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825-1916)

Danger from magical creatures, animals, beastly humans + a moral lesson: Charles Perrault's fairytales may have inspired moralistic Victorian children’s tales like Struwwelpeter & The Tribulations of Tommy Tiptop:beastly behaviour in children leads to a bad end #FolkloreThursday

Good people with the souls of cats
are very few
Yet here and now
many fine cats with great style
lounge about in the alleys of the universe...
(From “Cats & You & Me” by Charles Bukowski)
🎨 by Japanese illustrator Okada Chiaki
#Caturday

Illustrations from ARTHUR OF AVALON by Pavel Tatarnikov, b. 1971 in Belarus, whose favourite projects combine his love of myths and legends, literature and
history. #ArthurianLegend #Fairytaletuesday

Guernsey lore: when you see the 1st cuckoo of the year put a stone on your head & run. Mark where the stone falls off. Come back the next day. You'll find money under the stone. (If lazy, when you hear the 1st cuckoo turn over money in your pocket for good luck) #SuperstitionSat

A fairy rewards a girl for her kindness: diamonds & pearls fall from her lips when she speaks but her nasty sister's punishment is spewing toads. A prince hears the kind sister’s tale, they fall in love & live happily ever after #FairyTaleTuesday
🎨 Gordon Laite (1925-1978)

In Irish myth the King of Tír na nÓg is told his son-in-law will usurp him so he gives his daughter a pig's head to deter suitors. To regain her form, the princess must wed a son of Finn MacCumhail; Oisín agrees to marry, she regains her form, Oisín is made King #FairytaleTuesday