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

"After the Wake" by "Fairy" Fitzgerald. On the back a label inscribed reads: After the Wake, two valiant men of Kerry meeting the fairies and leprechauns on the way home...

#FairytaleTuesday @EnchantedEzine

To discover how many years you will live, run around a tree full of ripe cherries. Then shake it. The number of cherries that fall will be the number of years left...

🎨Tomikichiro Tokuriki
#FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs

Demonic Lilith was said to be the first wife of Adam. She refused to lie beneath him, cursed him and fled to couple with demons and give birth to 100 daughters - lilim -a day. Myths told of Lilith possessing women by entering them through mirrors...
🎨Rosetti #WyrdWednesday

Power-crazed Zeus swallowed Metis - mother of wisdom and magical cunning, who, unbeknown to him, was pregnant with Athena. Undaunted, inside the belly of the god, Metis made a helmet and armour for her warrior daughter...
🎨Bordone #mythologymonday

On a ship in the North Atlantic, a sailor froze in terror as he saw a stranger writing in the log book, before vanishing. The message said Steer North East, so they did, only to find a ship in danger. Among the rescued survivors was the "stranger"...

🎨Monamy #FolkloreThursday

In the 18th century, the mossy Ghillie Dhu was a fairy of the Highlands. Wee Jessie Macrae was the only one to hear him speak. He guided her home when she got lost in the woods. Despite this, the Mackenzie clan went to shoot him but found no trace...
✏Alan Lee #WyrdWednesday

In Japanese fairy-tales, heroic Momotarō was born from a peach. He made friends with a talking dog, monkey and bird and together they roamed the land, fighting demons...

🎨Santō Kyōden #FairytaleTuesday @EnchantedEzine

Phaeton believed he could command the Sun's chariot but lost control of its horses. They rode too high and the Earth froze, then too low and the land was parched. He would have set the world alight had Zeus not struck him down with a thunderbolt...

🎨Moreau #MythologyMonday

In Northern England, the Wild Hunt is led by Gabriel & his hounds. Doomed to hunt forever as punishment for hunting on the Sabbath, his hounds fly through air to chase the damned, howling all the while. To hear them is an omen of death...

🎨West #FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs

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