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

Last night on the eve of Solstice was the night to gather fern-seed, for today it conveys invisibility...

#FairyTaleTuesday #SummerSolstice

Bath's Theatre Royal has a ghost butterfly. The 1948 Christmas pantomime was butterfly themed with dancers in butterfly costumes, when a real (unseasonal) butterfly fluttered across the stage. This ghostly butterfly has appeared almost every Christmas since...

#FaustianFriday

Sailors believed a shark was able to scent a victim, and would follow a ship for miles, in which a dead body lay...

#FolkloreThursday 🎨Winslow Homer

“I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.”

― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

🎨Christian Schloe #BookWormSat

On the Pacific coast, a charm of coconut leaves plaited into the shape of a shark was hung up to prevent thieves. If a thief ignored it, they would be eaten by a real shark...

#SuperstitionSat

In Cornwall if you are near a portal to fairyland you will smell an intense floral scent...

#WyrdWednesday 🎨Füssli

Look through a hag stone, a rock hollowed by running water, for a glimpse of fairyland...

#WyrdWednesday

The nuns of Thetford came down to the riverside to cover St Withburga's body with lilies. Several flowers fell into the River Little Ouse, took root, and within an hour, covered all the banks to Ely with blooms that glowed radiantly at night...

#SwampSunday

This verse appeared in one of the earliest anthologies, Mother Goose’s Melody, around 1765, where it was claimed that the old woman was Henry V...!

#FairytaleTuesday

Before a sea burial, the sailmaker sewed the corpse into the canvas shroud, the last stitch through the nose, to ensure the ghost would not escape and walk the ship...

#OfDarkAndMacabre