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

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Dorothea Tanning, 1943.

Flax seeds sprinkled on walkways or graves distracted vampires. The revenants were compelled to pick up each individual seed and were usually prohibited from gathering more than one seed a year...

🎨Munch #FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs

In the English Midlands, the buttercup was nicknamed "crazy" and the smell of it was believed to produce insanity...

🎨Hicks #FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs

The Frog Tsarevna by Viktor Vasnetsov 1918

#FairytaleTuesday @EnchantedEzine

In Chinese lore, after death the soul would travel in an egg-shell boat....

#SuperstitionSat #Easter

There is a mermaid in the Mermaid's Pool in the Peak District who will grant immortality on anyone who sees her bathing. She only appears at midnight on Easter Day...

🎨Zatzka #FaustianFriday

In Devon and Cornwall, it was said it wasn't truly Spring unless you could stand on 12 daisies with one foot...

#SuperstitionSat #SpringEquinox

Mother Goddesses such as Isis, Cybele & Kali were said to command weather by braiding or releasing their hair. In European lore, witches' hair controlled the weather and some folk said when placed in water such hair became serpents...

🎨Rossetti #FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs

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