Karen Lee Streetさんのイラストまとめ

Urashima Tarō rescues a turtle that takes him to a palace under the sea where Princess Otohime entertains him for a few days. She gifts him a box he must not open. When home he learns he was gone for 100 years. Saddened, he opens the box & becomes a very old man #folklorethursday

Wise squirrels.
#Vintagepostcards #SundayThoughts

"Pack Clouds Away and Welcome Day"
by English painter Edward Robert Hughes (1851-1914) who is perhaps best known for his painting "Midsummer Eve".
#preRaphaelite #GothicAesthetics

Cornucopia: a enduring symbol of abundance & #harvest. Origin: when Greek God Zeus was an infant, he accidentally broke off the horn of Amaltheia, the goat suckling him. The horn was then given the divine power to provide unending nourishment- a horn of plenty
#FolkloreThursday

A favourite fairytale for me was “The White Snake” due to the boon of understanding & communicating with all animals. Further, animals help the servant-hero complete impossible trials to win the love of a princess & then live happily with her to a ripe old age #FairytaleTuesday

A pageant sleigh drawn by a pegasus & driven by a Wild-man riding a dragon appeared in the 1640 Bavarian winter parade as recorded in the “Album of Tournament & Parades in Nuremberg” which is held in Metropolitan Museum of Art
#FolkloreThursday #1600s

Illustrations by Lizbeth Zwerger for SWAN LAKE (2002) based on Tchaikovsky’s ballet: only true love will break the curse that turns Princess Odette & her maidens into swans by day. In the original libretto (1877) they were true swan-maidens not enchanted mortals #FairytaleTuesday

A dozen fairy godmothers may bestow good qualities on a princess, but the penalty for forgetting the 13th fairy is death-by-spindle, a curse so powerful even a fairy godmother can only transmute death to 100 years of slumber #FairyTaleTuesday
🎨John Dickson Batten, E.Burne-Jones

Martini Mouse and Puss-in-Boots
as observed and recorded by artist Omar Rayyan
#Caturday
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In Iroquois lore the Jogah are Little People, visible only to children & elders, that protect the natural world. They leave bowl-shapes in the earth for offerings of tobacco & fingernails & appear to humans as a robin signifying good news or an owl for a warning #FolkloreThursday