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

In Roman mythology Latona, mother of twins Diana and Apollo, needed water for her thirsty children. Folk refused to help and even stirred up mud in the pond. Latona responded by turning them into frogs forever doomed to swim in the muddy waters...

🎨Trevisani 🐸 #MythologyMonday

Around Lough Neagh, lies an ancient dwelling place of the fairies. Boatmen hear them travelling at night from island to island, in the sound of soft music, and see them in the track of the moonbeams...

🎨Giuliano #SwampSunday

In Javanese lore, the afterbirth was set adrift at night to please the crocodiles, as it was believed to be their sibling. Crocodiles were thought to be the ancestors of the people and so a "twin" was returned to them...

🎨De Morgan #FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs

Flax seeds sprinkled on walkways or graves distracted vampires. The revenants were compelled to pick up each individual seed and were usually prohibited from gathering more than one seed a year...

🎨Munch #FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs

In the English Midlands, the buttercup was nicknamed "crazy" and the smell of it was believed to produce insanity...

🎨Hicks #FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs

The Frog Tsarevna by Viktor Vasnetsov 1918

#FairytaleTuesday @EnchantedEzine

In Chinese lore, after death the soul would travel in an egg-shell boat....

#SuperstitionSat #Easter

There is a mermaid in the Mermaid's Pool in the Peak District who will grant immortality on anyone who sees her bathing. She only appears at midnight on Easter Day...

🎨Zatzka #FaustianFriday

In Devon and Cornwall, it was said it wasn't truly Spring unless you could stand on 12 daisies with one foot...

#SuperstitionSat #SpringEquinox

Mother Goddesses such as Isis, Cybele & Kali were said to command weather by braiding or releasing their hair. In European lore, witches' hair controlled the weather and some folk said when placed in water such hair became serpents...

🎨Rossetti #FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs