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

If you wash sheets on Holy Thursday you will be laid out in those sheets as a corpse before the next Holy Thursday comes...

Yorkshire Folk-Lore (1909) #SuperstitionSat

Luisa Casati transformed herself into a living work of art, even her pet cheetahs had jewelled collars, and one costume pierced with illuminated arrows gave her electric shocks. She was buried with her false eye-lashes and beloved (stuffed) dog Spider...

#WyrdWednesday

Some believed swallows were the spirits of children who had died, and come back to visit the house and protect it...

@FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday

Sleeping in full moonlight was once said to impair or destroy the eye-sight - eyes should be covered to avoid this...

@FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday

"All grown-ups were once children...but only few of
them remember it..."

The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
#BookWormSat

Robin Goodfellow was a mischievous English trickster fairy. To some he was a forest spirit, to others a devil. Those who were pixy-led would say "Robin Goodfellow has been with me tonight"...

#FairyTaleTuesday @EnchantedEzine
🎨Füssli

Although Helios the sun-god warned his son Phaeton that he could not teach him to ride the fiery sun-chariot, he still handed over the reins. A reckless driver of the sun, both scorching and freezing Earth, Helios was at last struck out of the sky by Zeus...

#MythologyMonday

The music of the harp is often used to lure humans into Fairyland...

#FairytaleTuesday @EnchantedEzine

🎨Charles Vess

Ireland was once called "the swan-abounding land". Kill a swan and you soon die...

#WyrdWednesday

In Austria, St. Lucia’s Eve was a time when special danger from witchcraft was feared and averted by prayer and incense which was carried through each house and every room...

#GothicAdvent #YuleFolklore

🎨Bauer