Rebekah Foxさんのイラストまとめ

There's a palm presages chastity, if nothing else

Antony and Cleopatra #ShakespeareSunday

🎨William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Look, look, a mouse!

King Lear #ShakespeareSunday

It's said that Robins got red breasts flying down to Hell taking sips of water to unfortunate souls there. Robins are also said to be symbols of dead loved ones. I never heard either of these tales growing up on Yorks. Are they regional? #FolkloreThursday #MargaretTarrant

In Greek myth Demeter was goddess of agriculture, growth, harvest & fertility. She also presided over the cycle of life & death. Persephone, her virgin daughter, was abducted to the underworld by Hades. Here Evelyn de Morgan depicts Demeter mourning her loss #FolkloreThursday

Don't buy Lily-of-the-Valley for your garden. If you want it to thrive, you should steal some bulbs from someone else's garden. Yours will then multiply until you have enough for another person to steal some #folklorethursday

The fire and cracks
Of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune
Seem to besiege, and make his bold waves tremble;
Yea, his dread trident shake
The Tempest #ShakespeareSunday

'On the bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily'
The Tempest
#folklorethursday #Halloween #Shakespeare

Nephelai were nymphs of clouds and rain. They bore water in cloudy pitchers & fed streams of River-God brothers with rain #folklorethursday