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

Rowan was often planted in graveyards for a belief in its power to keep the dead in their graves until Judgment Day...

#DontGoIntoTheWoods

When the fishermen of Port-Blanc Brittany, left at night, they often reported seeing the hands of corpses clinging on to the sides of their boats...

#OfDarkAndMacabre 🎨Alfred Kubin - The Horror

A mermaid and a man married. As she was dying, she asked to be returned to the sea. But the husband thought to save her soul and buried her by the church door. The sea-folk brought a tidal wave to drown the town. And so, the mermaid returned to the water...

#FolkloreThursday

Some scholars thought the sirens were soul-birds who conveyed the souls of the dead to the Isle of the Blessed...

#FolkloreThursday

Witches raise storms in many ways - one is to hurl sea-sand up into the sky...

#WyrdWednesday #WitchWednesday

In Ireland, the Fairy Market was sometimes called The Fair of the Dead and held at Samhain. At times the dead held the market, at other times, the fairies, and they were often confused as one and the same...

#FairyTaleTuesday 🎨Josh Honeyman

In English superstition, the nightjar was a witch in
disguise that sucked the cows’ milk...

#MythologyMonday 🎨Adam Burke

A superstition first recorded in 1885 was that pearls were somehow unlucky - "pearls means tears"...

🎨Felix Nussbaum - The Pearls (Mourners)

#SuperstitionSat

In Greek lore, Keres were death spirits with gnashing teeth and claws, who spread disease amongst the living. Although most often drawn to the battlefield, they could be prevented from entering homes by painting sticky tar onto door frames...

#FaustianFriday

Cerberus, three-headed, snake-tailed dog of Hades, guarded the entrance to the underworld, to prevent the souls of the dead from ever leaving...

#FaustianFriday 🎨William Blake