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

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

#WyrdWednesday

Irish fairies lived underground and inside certain hills and forts. There was once a large fairy fort on the Shimna River, near Newcastle Co.Down, where their music was often heard...

#FairytaleTuesday🧚‍♀️

In Irish folklore, fairies were once regarded as fallen angels...

#FairytaleTuesday

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

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

The tale of Cendrillon or Cinderella in three illustrations by Gustave Doré...

#FairyTaleTuesday

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