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

#CharlesDickens had several beloved ravens each named Grip. One would swallow and regurgitate door keys and shatter windows with its beak. Dickens wrote a talking Grip into Barnaby Rudge -this Grip was said to have inspired Poe's The Raven... @FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday

@FolkloreThurs Good morning tweeters. In England, the Waxwing is known as The Bohemian Chatterer, in Ireland - "silk wing" or "fairy wing". It was believed that banshees used waxwings as torches to guide them through their nights of lonely laments...#FolkloreThursday #birds

Loved telling the myth of Selene and Endymion today @WattsGallery outreach for the upcoming #moonscapes exhibition, inspired by GF Watts' painting. A story of female pursuit and desire and of course, the magical moon...#Moon50 #moonmyths #storytelling

As my train passed @TootingCommon, I glimpsed a whole year group of primary school children flying kites! It was so lovely.☺️
#wonderintheeveryday #letsgoflyakite #fridayfeeling

Valentine’s lore! In French folklore on 14thFeb Mother Nature called on the birds to choose their mates.

Try a little ornithomancy on 14th, first bird you see foretells your sweetheart!
Goldfinch=person of means. Duck=stable relationship. Dove=loving marriage! #happyvalentines