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

Edvard Munch entitled this 1895 painting Love and Pain. Others called it degenerate. But Munch's friend, critic and self-styled Satanist Stanisław Przybyszewski, saw it at an exhibition and immediately gave it the name Vampire...

#FaustianFriday #arthistory #Vampire

In Scottish waters, three days before a storm, the drowned would leave their watery graves to lament and warn the living of what was to come...

🎨John McGhie

#FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs

In some of the Southern States of America, there was an old belief that if lightning struck close by a dying person, then the devil had come for their soul...

🎨Michael Pacher

#Donthavenightmares #weatherlore #FolkloreThursday
@FolkloreThurs

In 1888, Oscar Wilde's beautiful The Nightingale and the Rose was first published. Inspired by Persian myth and Hans Andersen, this poignant tale has an underlying motif of how artists' self-sacrifice can remain unnoticed...
#oscarwilde #FairyTaleTuesday
🎨Charles Robinson

#OTD 1862 Charles Dodgson told his friend Alice a story. She begged him to write it down and so he did...

🎨🎨Arthur Rackham
#AliceInWonderland #aliceday #Rackham #Caturday

In Romania, folk once believed each flower had a soul.
The waterlily was their judge. If it decided the other flowers had been generous with their fragrances, they would be admitted to heaven to bloom there for eternity. If not, they would wither and disappear

#FolkloreThursday

Remarkable Annie Jones was sold into showbusiness before she could walk. Part of PT Barnum's Greatest Show on Earth, her short life was spent as a sideshow attraction. Before she died she began a campaign against the word "freak" to describe performers such as she
#WyrdWednesday

In Celtic fairy tales, the fairy bride often warns her mortal groom, that as soon as he strikes her with iron, she will be free to return home...

🎨Andrew King & The Fairy Wife - Arthur Rackham
#FairyTaleTuesday

The Grimm Brothers gathered tales far & wide. An old woman famed for her repertoire did not wish to pass on her lore to the young men. So a child was sent to ask her for a story & bring it back to them. The result was Aschenputtel, the German Cinderella
#FolkloreThursday 🎨Vogel

1809 Theodore Hook made a wager he could make 54 Berners St the most infamous house in London. He sent there chimney sweeps, wedding cakes, doctors, lawyers, priests, fishmongers & more! Onlookers gathered. The city stood still. The Berners St Hoax was a success!
#WyrdWednesday