Chrys Charterisさんのイラストまとめ

“Out of the boat rushed a Draug in seaman's clothes, but with a heavy crop of seaweed instead of a head. It had been weighing down the boat by sitting in the stern, and now dashed into the sea, so that the foam spirted all over them.”
~ Jonas Lie

#MythologyMonday

🎨T. Kittelsen

A lion was roused from his slumber by a mouse scurrying over his nose. He lifted his paw to swat her. “Spare me,” squeaked she, “and your mercy shall have its reward.” One day, the lion was snared by a hunter. Up ran the mouse, and nibbled him free. (Aesop)

#FairyTaleTuesday

I grew up in a land of Viking settlers, under Odin’s Crag, North Yorkshire. When the crag “wears a cap” (of cloud) folk warn of “a clap” which will herald a wild, raging storm.

🎨 My childhood skyline: ‘The Wild Hunt of Odin’, Peter Nicolai Arbo, 1872.

#WyrdWednesday

The fair-skinned, sun-shunning redhead has been branded a vampire throughout history.

Edvard Munch’s ‘Vampire’ (1893-1895) was originally titled ‘Love and Pain’. He painted her multiple times. Would his subject have compelled so without her flaming locks?

#MythologyMonday

Childhood cautions and consequences: don’t stray from the path; don’t suck your thumb; cut your hair and nails; don’t misbehave at Christmas! (Images: The Company of Wolves/Struwwelpeter, Heinrich Hoffman/Krampus print, artist unknown) #FairyTaleTuesday