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
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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

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

When building a new ship, shipwrights would tie a lucky red ribbon around the first nail they used, to prevent accidents befalling the craft
#FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs
Boat-Building near Flatford Mill - John Constable

Selene drives her silver (or golden) moon chariot pulled by two white horses. She is represented with a diadem and wings on her shoulders. There are other goddesses associated with the moon but only Selene is regarded as the actual moon itself #mythologymonday

Endymion GF Watts

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Hans Andersen's Little Mermaid is believed to have been inspired by his love & longing for Edvard Collin. Lovely, lonely, biromantic, asexual Andersen sent Collin his story along with a letter, in which he described his soul as being a fathomless lake...#FairyTaleTuesday
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