Karen Lee Streetさんのイラストまとめ

According to legend, Siamese cats were used to guard the King of Siam.They would perch on tall pillars placed around his throne; if anyone threatened the King, the cats would leap down on the attacker, slashing with their claws #Superstitionsat #Caturday
🎨Eileen Mayo (1906-1994)

"The Night escorted by the geniuses of Love and Study" by Brazilian artist Pedro Américo (1843–1905)
Depictions of Nyx, goddess of Night in Greek myth, often include owls. Nyx & Erebus (Darkness) gave birth to Aether (Brightness) & Hemera (Day). #MythologyMonday #OwlishMonday

Does a mirror reflect our world back to us or show us somewhere else? Alice discovers that a looking-glass is a portal to a fantastical place in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice Found There
🎨 Evgenija Chistotina https://t.co/tXcSOolYiy
#FairytaleTuesday

A rather handsome lion-like beast as imagined by artist Margaret Evans Price (1888–1973) for “Beauty and the Beast.” Price was co-founder of Fisher-Price Toy Company for which she also designed push-pull toys based on characters from her children's books #FairyTaleTuesday

Wagara: Japanese patterns with specific meanings first created in the 8th century for designs on clothing; these symbols were mostly inspired by nature and some traditional crafts. The patterns are used on variety of objects today #FolkloreThursday

Paul Jouve travelled to Egypt and Vietnam to study elephants and other native wildlife. He particularly loved big cats. He also illustrated LA CHASSE DE KAA (1930 ed.) further tales by Rudyard Kipling in the same story world.
#FairytaleTuesday

In 1856 William Henry Perkin (1838–1907) tried to make quinine from coal tar & discovered it could be used to create purple dye. He called it mauveine. Fabric dyed with it didn't fade from sunlight & coal pollution; 'royal purple' clothing became more affordable #folklorethursday

Queen Elizabeth I decreed only the royal family could wear purple. In the early 19thc purple dye was made using (rather scarce) snake droppings later replaced by (more prevalent) cormorant guano. This murexide purple was lightfast but faded in coal-polluted air
#FolkloreThursday

Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit!
for September luck
#Folklore
#AliceinWonderland 🎨 by Italian illustrator Libico Maraja (1912-1983)

“But when he brushes up against a screen,
We are afraid of what our eyes have seen:
For something is amiss or out of place
When mice with wings can wear a human face.”
(from “The Bat” by Theodore Roethke)

🎨 Kate O’Hara https://t.co/iWSiCxwwEM
#gothicspring #Baturday