Olivia Armstrong - Storytellerさんのイラストまとめ

Along with many other sea-birds, Irish fishermen believed seagulls held the souls of dead mariners and so should not be harmed in any way...

🎨Segantini #FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs

John Anster Fitzgerald often paired birds and fairies in his paintings. He would frame some of his pictures in a fragile mesh of gilded twigs so that they resembled a nest...

#FairyTaleTuesday @EnchantedEzine

Inca goddess Mamma Quilla or Mother Moon cried tears of silver. A fox fell in love with her but when she squeezed him close, his blood formed the dark patches of her seas...

🎨Comerre #FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs

"Titania's Elves robbing the Squirrel's Nest"
Robert Huskisson 1854.

It was said of the artist that "he slipped out of the world, no one knew when or how"

#FairyTaleTuesday @EnchantedEzine

The custom of stuffing the mouth of a corpse with garlic prevented it from chewing on itself - a sure sign of vampirism...

#MythologyMonday #garlic

In Eastern Europe it was once said devils would celebrate their weddings at crossroads, where their dancing and festivities caused dust-storms and whirlwinds...

🎨Rackham #FaustianFriday @FaustianFriday

At Hallowtide in Scotland, the Samhnag bonfire was made of ferns and peat; a circle of stones placed around its edges. Each stone "named" for a family member. Next day, if any stone had gone that person would not last the year...

🖼Krøyer #SuperstitionSat

Mad as a hatter may derive from sarcastic French simile
"Il raisonne comme une huitre" -he reasons like an oyster.

🎨John Tenniel

#FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs

In the Fens, frogs were called "Cambridgeshire nightingales" as before rainfall at night, the air was filled with their croaking!

🎨? #FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs #Frogs

Mice were once believed to be the incarnate souls of those who had been murdered...

#SuperstitionSat