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

If you can get a ghost between the door and the doorpost, and then slam the door, it will be so tormented it will have to leave you...

#31DaysofHalloween #SuperstitionSat

In Celtic lore, fairies had a matriarchal society and were known as "the mothers". The children of fallen angels, they carried off the souls of the dead. Anyone who died at twilight would find themselves in Fairyland, between life & death...

#FolkloreThursday #31DaysofHalloween

Hina was the Polynesian virgin-mother goddess, creator of the world. She was both moon and first woman and gave birth to the gods and the humans. All women are said to embody her spirit...

🎨Schinkel #FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs

A Danish mermaid could be glimpsed in the summer sea mists. She would bring the wild weather and later visit the fishermen's night fires, taking those around her down to the watery underworld...

🎨Leeke #Mermaid #FaustianFriday

On the Isle of Man, "themselves" (the fairies) were sometimes said to be the souls of those who died in Noah's flood...

🎨Richard Dadd @FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday

American superstition said, leave bread and coffee under the house to prevent ghosts from calling...

🎨Gérard #SuperstitionSat

In Roman mythology Latona, mother of twins Diana and Apollo, needed water for her thirsty children. Folk refused to help and even stirred up mud in the pond. Latona responded by turning them into frogs forever doomed to swim in the muddy waters...

🎨Trevisani 🐸 #MythologyMonday

Around Lough Neagh, lies an ancient dwelling place of the fairies. Boatmen hear them travelling at night from island to island, in the sound of soft music, and see them in the track of the moonbeams...

🎨Giuliano #SwampSunday

In France from Maundy Thursday to Easter, church bells are silent. They have flown away to Rome. On Easter morning, children look skyward to see them fly back, as they do, chocolate eggs & sweets are scattered on the ground, apparently gathered by the bells...

#MythologyMonday

In Javanese lore, the afterbirth was set adrift at night to please the crocodiles, as it was believed to be their sibling. Crocodiles were thought to be the ancestors of the people and so a "twin" was returned to them...

🎨De Morgan #FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs