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

In Alpine folklore, Faengge was a wild-woman of colossal stature, lichen hair, a mouth that stretched from ear to ear and breasts so long, she had to throw them over her shoulders when she ran through the woods...

🎨MadLaid/DeviantArt #folklorethursday @FolkloreThurs

The Frog Tsarevna or Frog Princess painted by Viktor Vasnetsov in 1918.

#FairyTaleTuesday @EnchantedEzine

A watery undine can acquire an immortal soul by marrying a human...

Illustration by Arthur Rackham.

#FairyTaleTuesday @EnchantedEzine

Vulcan, the Roman god of the forge, made a mirror that could show the past, present and the future...
In one story, Cupid gave it to Antinous who gave it to Penelope, who saw within it, "the court of Queen Elizabeth..."

🖼Bassano
#mirror #mythologymonday @MythologyMonday

Hansel and Gretel by Arthur Rackham

#FairytaleTuesday @EnchantedEzine

The magnificent decaying beauty of living work of art
La Marchesa - Luisa Casati.

Now a resident of Brompton Cemetery, buried with her stuffed Pekinese, Spider, and a spare pair of false eyelashes (just in case...)

@FOBCOfficial #GothicAesthetics #FaustianFriday

In Scottish folklore, three swans seen flying together was a sign of an impending national disaster...

🖼Jan Van Essen
@FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday #birds #Scotland

The 15thc word Caterpillar may derive from Old French, meaning "a hairy foraging cat"...

🖌Arthur Rackham

#FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs @morethanbugs

Scottish folk said magpie carried a drop of the devil's blood under its tongue...

🎨Xu Beihong

#FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs

In Nordic folklore, a Gjenganger was an unquiet spirit that returned from the grave to torment family and friends, usually by attacking them in their sleep with a so-called dødningeknip or dead man’s pinch...

🖼Thorvald Niss

#WyrdWednesday #ghosts #Supernatural