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

A vampire can be prevented from leaving its grave in the first place by stuffing the entrance with woven linen. It has to remain behind to disentangle and straighten the threads...

#FaustianFriday 🎨Wiertz

A man loved a mermaid who lived in the Irish Sea. He swam to her rock with a bundle of apples. She ate them and came to live with him. But he drowned and so the mermaid returned to the sea. She is still sometimes seen lamenting her lover - and the apples...

#SwampSunday

A sailor would never turn his shoes upside-down on the deck for fear the boat would copy and turn over too...

#SuperstitionSat 🎨Winslow Homer

In Romanian lore, if one cut oneself in a churchyard at night and the blood flowed onto a grave, the corpse inside could become a revenant...

#FaustianFriday

On Durham farms, a goat was kept with the cattle as it was believed they would eat adders who may otherwise have harmed the cows...

#SuperstitionSat

Breton fisherfolk believed when someone died at sea, gulls and curlews would beat their wings against the dead one's windows...

#SwampSunday

@bjorn_stjerne @starryforestbks Back atcha' my spooky story sister! Thank you so much for all your kindness.

Where the ancient trackway the Icknield Way reaches Oxfordshire is said to be the end of the world and beyond there, the sulphurous mountains of Hell...

#FaustianFriday

In the folklore of Tobago, the sea dwelling mer-people are male. But beautiful fairy maids with one foot and one deer's hoof, live in rivers and under the bridges, in pools, near waterwheels and waterfalls...
#FairytaleTuesday

Once in Romania, if a funeral procession passed by, all containers of water would be covered, since the soul, being hydrotropic, might fall into one and drown...

#FairytaleTuesday