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

In Irish folk tradition the long hair of the banshee is often cited. Older rural Irish women wore hair covered, unless when keening and mourning, when it would be loose, providing one explanation of why long strewn hair is so common for the death-messenger...

#FairytaleTuesday

In Ireland if death was near, lots of bread was brought into the house so that evil spirits would be drawn away to eat and let the soul of the dying leave in peace...

#FolkloreThursday #Gothtober @FolkloreThurs

In England and Scotland, once a corpse was laid out, a person would have to touch it to prevent dreaming of it or death...

#Gothtober #31DaysOfHalloween #OfDarkAndMacabre

In Southern States of America, folk said the blue-jay was never seen on a Friday, because it was carrying sticks to the Devil in hell. This bird was the Devil's messenger and spy...

#FairyTaleTuesday #Gothtober

A branch from the elder tree will protect one from the charms of witches & wizards...

#SuperstitionSat

Wicked Jack tricked the devil. Then he died and went to Hell, but Hell didn't want him! His old foe gave him an ember from the furnace to light his way back. Jack put it inside a turnip and with this jack-o’-lantern he has wandered the earth ever since...

#FaustianFriday

In Scotland, to see a robin outside your door in autumn, foretold an early or severe winter...

#FairytaleTuesday @FairyTale_Tues

In a story from The Seneca, Wolf Spirit sang the moon into the sky, and so that is why all wolves howl at the moon...

#FaustianFriday

In Finistère, damp straw was burned in boats' holds to drive out the spirits of robbers who hid there. But as the spirits could make themselves tiny, the smoke had to fill every crack...

#FolkloreThursday

On the Île de Sein in Brittany, folk would tell of hearing the Crierien, the bones of drowned sailors whose spirits call out for burial...

#OfDarkAndMacabre