Karen Lee Streetさんのイラストまとめ

In Shamanism, bat medicine is tied to the shaman’s ability to walk between worlds as the bat represents both life & death. It's a common folkloric belief that bats get entangled in human hair; some think only thunder & lightning will drive them out.
#GothicNewWorlds #bats

"Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye…"
(Loves Labours Lost A2, S1)
#ShakespeareSunday

(image: New York Public Library, 1868)

Albertine Randall Wheelan (1863-1954) was a costume designer, a newspaper comic artist and an illustrator. Here her illustrations for “The Shoemaker & the Elves” from The Home University Bookshelf (1927) and a fairy prince.
#FairytaleTuesday

Illustrations from THE NENUPHAR BOOK by author/ illustrator Sveta Dorosheva (b. Ukraine) “a book about people and human world, as seen through the eyes of fairy-tale creatures.” Her earliest inspirations were Russian fairytales, then myth and medieval art. #FairytaleTuesday

"Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee;
Corruption wins not more than honesty.
Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace"
(Henry VIII, A3 S2)
#ShakespeareSunday

Amanita muscaria:
Flights of fancy & the height of fashion

#FashionFriday #FancyFungus #Magicalmushrooms

Driven into the forest by another's jealousy…
#Illustrations from the award-winning SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARVES (1972) by Nancy Ekholm Burkert (b. 1933 USA) known for her beautiful detail and mastery of light and shadow. #FairytaleTuesday

A rhyme of rival courtesans? In The Beggar’s Opera (1728) 'Lucy Lockit' loses her (rich)man to Polly. In reality 18thc courtesans Kitty Fisher & Maria Gunning were rivals; Maria wed wealthy Lord Coventry but Kitty had an affair with him thus 'picking her pocket' #FolkloreThursday

THE RABBITS’ WEDDING (1958) by Garth Williams (1912-1996) There was a call to ban it from Alabama libraries but state library director Emily Wheelock Reed (1910-2000) refused. She was given a Freedom to Read Foundation award in 2000. The book is still in print #Childrensbookweek

Happy #MayDay!
Art: Marcella Blood (1998-1983) whose #ArtDeco work was stored away and half-forgotten for over 80 years. Found and rescued by her granddaughters, ‘flapper girl’ Marcella’s work can be enjoyed here: https://t.co/Hz48j4tj5i