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

In this illustration of Snow White asleep, it has been suggested that illustrator Franz Jüttner was inspired by images of sacred art. In particular, The Adoration of The Child Jesus, by El Greco...
(thread) #FairyTaleTuesday @EnchantedEzine

West of Lemorna Cove in #Cornwall is The Mermaid's Rock. Before storms at sea, a mermaid would sing, and all along the shore, the spirits echoed her in low voices. Those that followed her voice were never seen again...
#FairyTaleTuesday @EnchantedEzine
🎨FerdinandLeeke #Mermaid

In Zennor, Cornwall, a mermaid would attend St Senara's Church to sing with the choir, although the villagers were unaware of her aquatic identity then. The "Mermaid Chair" where she sat can still be seen today. She soon caught the ear of the churchwarden's son #FairyTaleTuesday

Grace Darling assured her status as a real life & folk heroine in 1838, when she rowed out to rescue survivors from a shipwreck off the Northumberland coast. She inspired countless street ballads, fiction, even figurines, and many requests for locks of her hair
#FolkloreThursday

Fairy Godmothers are closely linked to The Fates who attend births and decide destinies. They emerged during the French salon fairy-tale tradition, whose tellers also so happened to be wiser, older women...
#FairyTaleTuesday

🎨Edmund Dulac

Fairies love goats and visit them to comb their beards every Friday. English country-folk believed it wasn't possible to see a goat continuously for 24 hours as, at some point it must visit either the fairies or the Devil, to be combed @EnchantedEzine #FairyTaleTuesday
🎨Rackham

#Bread turned upside down was an ominous sign and could sink a ship at sea. Dough left overnight should be marked with crosses (& in Somerset, hearts also) to prevent witches dancing upon it. Only one should reach into the oven during baking or a quarrel ensues #FolkloreThursday

Nursery rhyme scamps Jack & Jill may have origins in a Scandanavian myth of Hjuki & Bil. Kidnapped by Moon to be its children, they can still be seen there, carrying their bucket. As they climb the hill, moon waxes, as they fall down, it wanes...
@FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday

At the rainbow's end, the Leprechaun kept a purse filled with unending gold. If you caught him, you could claim it, as long as you never took your eyes off him or left the spot. He was full of wiles and always managed to keep that gold safe
#FairyTaleTuesday #StPatricksDay #irish

@DanNouveau this is wonderful and well deserved. Enjoy the adventure