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

In the Irish fairy tale "The Soul Cages" by Thomas Keightley, a green merrow with pig eyes and a red nose, captures the souls of drowned sailors and locks them away in cages under the waves...

🎨Böcklin🧜‍♀️

#FairytaleTuesday @FairyTale_Tues

Good Morning Spring...

Life & Death by Ivar Arosenius

Hestia was the Greek goddess of home, hearth and family. She rejected Apollo and Poseidon and swore an oath of eternal virginity which was blessed by Zeus...

#MythologyMonday

Wormwood is said to have sprung up in the track of the serpent as it left Eden...

#FolkloreThursday #GothicSpring

Sleep under a hawthorn today and you may be carried away by the fairies...

#MayDay #1stMay #Folklore

Never tease a cat, especially not tonight on Walpurgis eve, it will turn into a witch and harm you...

#SuperstitionSat #Caturday

In North Germany, it was said if you wish to see witches on May-day, go into church on Good Friday, but be sure not to stop to hear the benediction...!

#GoodFriday #GothicSpring

Parsley is slow to seed - it takes seven weeks because it grows down to the devil and then up again, unless planted on Good Friday...

#FolkloreThursday

An old favourite...
The drowned man's ghost tries to claim a new victim for the sea by Thorvald Niss...

#WyrdWednesday

In Europe - an invocation to the new moon would ensure that one dreamed of one’s future partner...

#MythologyMonday