Sarah Chavezさんのイラストまとめ
@sarah_calaveraFollow @sarah_calaveraさんをフォローする
フォロー数：241 フォロワー数：21714
On April 30th it’s Walpurgisnacht, which means we’re halfway to Halloween. On these two nights the veil between the living and the dead thins and the night belongs to WITCHES.
Read more about Witches’ Night here ⤵️
https://t.co/LbqFAEE1R2
According to Mexica beliefs, both warriors and women who died in childbirth were transformed into hummingbirds after death.
At my house, whenever we see a hummingbird we say ‘An ancestor has come to visit’ and thank them.
(Art by Kate O’Hara)
THREAD
For today’s #FolkloreThursday here’s some household + death lore💀🐝
In the 18th & 19th centuries in the U.S. and Western Europe, a strange ritual involving households that kept bees took place called ‘The Telling of the Bees.’
(Image by Nikolay Tolmachev)
With this final act she was able to provide a living (or in this case, decaying), example of the valuable lessons she tried to impart in life.
Her dying wish inspired a new kind of Buddhist painting known as Kyuaizu. Read more here: https://t.co/BJsKV9GNu9
Since it’s Edward Gorey’s birthday today, here’s @AmberCarvaly and I recreating his piece ‘A Dull Afternoon’
One of the most popular food items left out for witches was goose fat from the traditional Christmas Goose.
It was believed that witches rubbed their bodies with goose fat (mixed with other ingredients), which enabled them to fly.
(Photo by William Mortenson)
It was believed that witches rubbed their bodies with goose fat, which enabled them to fly.
People left the fat in a pot outside as an offering to witches on Christmas night, enabling the witches to take nightly ‘Grease Flights’ over the 12 days of Christmas.