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

An old superstition said if you saw a dead butterfly, it was a sure sign you would shed tears within a week...🦋
@FolkloreThurs #folklorethursday
🎨- Richard Doyle

In 1899 in Northern England, a newspaper reported that clothes moths were often called "ghosts" and each time one was killed, there was serious risk of a relative being injured...
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From https://t.co/kilbtjUGM3 comes this political cartoon. The text on the site says it depicts: "Red Riding Hood as the people of Ireland, wolf as the landlords...and the “brave Irish woodman” as the hero coming to save the Irish from the villainous landlords. #FairyTaleTuesday

London illustrator Charles Robinson was the son of an illustrator, his two brothers were also illustrators (one was William Heath Robinson) He secured a place to study at The Royal Academy but hadn't enough money to attend. This is his Red Riding Hood c. 1910 #fairytaletuesday

In Lang's Red Fairy Book 1890, you find Charles Marelle's tale "The True History of Little Goldenhood". The enchanted hood made by grandmother witch, burns wolf like scorching red-hot coals. In this way, he is defeated. No wood-cutter necessary @EnchantedEzine #fairytaletuesday

Goddess Aphrodite had a magical girdle woven with threads of love and desire which inspired passion; whoever the wearer desired, would fall in love with them. Hera, goddess of marriage, would borrow it often to reunite quarrelling spouses. @MythologyMonday #mythologymonday

Biddy Early was a healer, famous throughout Ireland. She never asked for money to those who sought her help and was frequently paid in whisky. Often in conflict with the Catholic Church, she was put on trial for witchcraft but released due to lack of evidence #witchwednesday

O excellent! I love long life better than figs.
Anthony and Cleopatra A1S2
#ShakespeareSunday @HollowCrownFans

The dream's here still: even when I wake, it is without me, as within me; not imagined, felt.
- Cymbeline A4S2
#ShakespeareSunday
🎨The Nightmare Henry Fuseli

The rudest fairy is the Barabao, only found in Venice. It creeps into bedrooms through the keyhole and lifts the bed covers to spy on lovers. In the past, it hid in chamber pots to peek at the bottoms above it...
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