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6. #Autumnus
In #RomanMythology Autumnus was the #god and personification of #autumn and the #AutumnEquinox
#FairyTaleTuesday 7/7
2. #Persephone
In #GreekMythology, Persephone was the daughter of the #harvest #goddess #Demeter. When Persephone was kidnapped by #Hades, Demeter allowed nothing to grow for six months until Persephone was finally returned This was how #autumn was created
#FairyTaleTuesday 3/7
#FairyTaleTuesday In Irish tradition an daoine sidhe, the fairies, live in the hills. They were pushed there by waves of invaders who took Ireland until the coming of the Gaels. These sidhe dwell under the hills and are part of the living landscape of Ireland.
🖼: J. Duncan
#FairyTaleTuesday Lugh Lamfada fostered with Manannan mac Lir, Lord of Tir na nOg. An daoine sidhe, a Gaelic name for the fairies, reside there when they do not reside in Ireland: Lugh thus learned his many skills from the fairies, a useful trade indeed.
🖼: J. Brideson
John Anster Christian Fitzgerald was a Victorian era fairy painter and portrait artist. Many of his fairy paintings are dark and contain images of ghouls, demons, and references to drug use; his work has been compared to Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Brueghel #FairyTaleTuesday
🍂🍁🍂Beautiful Autumn fae by Cicely Mary Barker for #FairyTaleTuesday
#FairyTaleTuesday ‘The Red Tree’ by Shaun Tan is a beautiful, tender, picture-book that explores depression and loneliness though incredible imagery. The motif of a red Autumn leaf is used throughout as a glimmer of hope. It’s there even when you can’t quite see it. #arttherapy
Ophelia, re-imagined in a gothic, monstery way #FairyTaleTuesday
Moss folk are a class of fairy folk, similar dwarves, elves, or spirits connected to trees & the forest These fairies occasionally borrow items from people or ask for help but always compensate the owners generously, often with either good advice or bread. #fairytaletuesday
#FairyTaleTuesday Fairies of the #Autumn written & illustrated by Cicely Mary Barker. Wherever & whenever a seed sprouts a flower fairy is born. Each one lives & sleeps in their plant, flower or tree, looking after it, keeping it strong & healthy. 🍂🧚♀️
#AutumnEquinox #Autumn2020
In the orchards of England it is lore that each #harvest, to ensure a good future crop, the last apple should be left on the tree for the Apple Tree Man. He is the spirit who lives in the oldest tree & bestows fertility on the orchard. #FairytaleTuesday #AutumnEquinox Img: CB
The term "jack-o'-lantern" may be derived from the Irish legends of Stingy Jack, a conniving drunk who cheats death time & again. When he eventually dies, neither Heaven nor Hell can take him, so he wanders between worlds, using a hollow turnip as a lantern. #FairyTaleTuesday
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#HBD to Arthur Rackham, born this day in (1867-1939).
“For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.”
Self Portrait
Tree Fairies
Pandora
The Valiant Little Tailor
#FairyTaleTuesday #artists #illustration
Pequeño sketch de Valentia
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'Fall & adapt'
Hope you're all hanging on out there~ 💛🌿✨
#art #fantasyart #illustration #watercolor #gouache #artistsontwitter #FairyTaleTuesday
Sprays or crosses of birch put over a stable door bar faeries from entering at night & keep them from borrowing horses. Faeries were also said to be able to come into the house when everyone was asleep & turn a person into a horse so they could ride them. #FairyTaleTuesday
#Unicorns in #art for #FairyTaleTuesday
🎨by Maerten de Vos, 1572
🎨by Gustave Moreau, 1885
#artontwitter #tuesdayvibes #unicorn #painting
This Annie Stegg Gerard #illustration is exactly how I imagine all #fairytale stags to be like... though I believe this particular one is from Narnia, and one of the dryads has claimed him...
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#FairyTaleTuesday The horse of Death in Christian Revelation is translatable as pale green, ashen, pale, and white, and Hell follows with him. This final Horseman of the Apocalypse opens the fifth of the seventh seals in perhaps the most famous apocalypse.
Art by V.M. Vanetsov