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

In Bombay, it was believed dissolute men became owls after death...

#MythologyMonday #OwlishMonday

🎨Louis Wain

Áengus mac Óg was an Irish god of love and beauty. His kisses became birds that hovered invisibly over the young folk of Ireland, whispering thoughts of love into their ears...

#MythologyMonday

Ireland was once called "the swan-abounding land". Kill a swan and you soon die...

#WyrdWednesday

Macabre - that is, the masked reaper, was the Lord of Death in French medieval mystery plays. They wore a skeleton suit and carried a scythe to reap souls...

#MythologyMonday

In Austria, St. Lucia’s Eve was a time when special danger from witchcraft was feared and averted by prayer and incense which was carried through each house and every room...

#GothicAdvent #YuleFolklore

🎨Bauer

On Christmas Eve when the clock begins to strike twelve, the doors should be opened, that bad spirits may pass out and good spirits come in...

#YuleFolklore #GothicAdvent

The Sandman was once a terrifying nursery ogre. He threw coarse sand into the eyes of children who would not sleep. When the screaming child rubbed its eyes, they fell out, bloody, upon the floor. The Sandman took the eyes to feed his children in the moon...

#FolkloreThursday

Horses were used to find the resting places of vampires in South-Eastern Europe. They were led into cemeteries suspected of sheltering the undead and forced to tread on graves. They refused to step over ground which held these creatures...
#WyrdWednesday

Frigg and Odin sit together and look out upon all worlds, and mourn, with all nature, for the death of their son, the light Balder...

🎨Harry George Theaker #FairyTaleTuesday

One Irish belief is that you can't refuse what a fairy asks of you on Hallowe'en...

#31DaysOfHalloween