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

The Night-hag visits folk in their dreams to torture them with desire. She sucks on their hair, braiding it, leaving them with ‘mare-locks’ or ‘mare-tangles’...

#FaustianFriday

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

When magician Gwydion chased flower-faced Blodeuwedd through the sky, traces were left, in the form of the scattered stars of the Milky Way...

#MythologyMonday 🎨Blodeuwedd by Scarlettletters

“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

Balm - or bee-plant used to be planted around orchards and vegetable plots to encourage pollination. During the 17th and 18th centuries balm was used to make bees stay in their hives, and even attract a new swarm...

#FolkloreThursday #bees 🐝

Fairyland can be encountered simply by squeezing through an opening between two oak trees...

#WyrdWednesday

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

#WyrdWednesday 🎨Füssli