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Kay Nielsen's illustrations for East of the Sun, West of the Moon, a collection of old fairytales rich with great bears, magical winds, deep snow and trolls - gathered by Norwegian folklorists Asbjørnsen & Moe on their journeys across Norway in the 1880s. #FolkloreThursday
“Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man" is one of the oldest and most widely known surviving English nursery rhymes. The earliest recorded version of the rhyme appears in Thomas D'Urfey's play “The Campaigners” from 1698 #FolkloreThursday
“Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.” Walter Crane’s #illustrations for The Song Of Sixpence Picture Book, published in 1909. #NurseryRhyme
#FolkloreThursday #Edwardian #GoldenAge
“The apple never falls far from the tree”- you always end up resembling your parents in some ways. Referred to in a 16th century German book of #proverbs, but probably ancient Ottoman.
#FolkloreThursday
Image: The Crab-Apple Fairy, Cicely Mary Barker, c.1935
This week's #FolkloreThursday theme is traditional #rhymes, #riddles, #sayings, #proverbs and #folksongs! [Img: The Blind Leading the Blind, Sebastian Vrancx]
NEW POSTCARD TYPE PIC I MADE FOR MY COMIC! I like to draw Florette in cute outfits even if she miGht not wear them often ,,,
You can find SOLEIL here!
https://t.co/ifkRRqn1yT
Nothing like spending your Bachlorette Party dressed in a cute outfit, destroying things on GTA and taking selfies the whole time! Drew the gal that @lucahjin was playing as while she was streaming
The Lady of the Lake plays a pivotal role in Arthurian legend.
She gives King Arthur his sword Excalibur, raises Lancelot in her magical kingdom, and bewitches Merlin the wizard into teaching her some magic - which she then uses to imprison him in a tower.
#FolkloreThursday
In modern times, their appearances are even further confused when the original Sirens get mixed up with what we know as a siren today, which is a combination of European mermaids and Greek Sirens. #FolkloreThursday #Mermaid #Siren
#Achilles epitomizes #epic #heroism, as does this magnicificent fresco representation. #Hubris #greekmythology #Troy #TrojanWar #Hector #Prium #war #Greece #FolkloreThursday #Iliad 🏛️
Triumph of Achilles, Franz Matsch, 1892, Achilleion, Corfu.
In a well that still flows close to #Killala, Co #Mayo, beside the sea, local legend tells that St Patrick baptised in a single day 12,000 converts & in presence of the crowds, raised to life a dead woman whom he also baptised! #FolkloreThursday
Slavic folk belief says that the world organises itself according to an oppositional yet complementary duality represented by Belobog ("White God") and Chernobog ("Black God"). These represent the often seen religious theme of light and dark (art by Vasylina) #FolkloreThursday
Boss and Loretto are hard at work... Thank you for your patience 🙇♀️🙇♂️🍸
While Zesty was doing the four unicorns of the apocalypse, I was doing an Okapi/Japanese Serow mix!
#Unicorn #FolkloreThursday #digitalart
Always loves when #FolkloreThursday comes around! For today, it's my finished #selkie! #folklore #Celtic #mythology #watercolour
This week's #FolkloreThursday theme couldn't make me happier, given that I'm illustrating #aCompendiumOfWitches! So have some badass wise women from all over Europe!
You can read more about the project at https://t.co/IqGSuha4aR 🌿
@FolkloreThurs
#FolkloreThursday Come and see me, @barquing and @HooklandGuide at @London_Geekfest this Sunday. We'll be talking about folklore and the joy to be found in the dark. https://t.co/GCpnmxUOZF
Hagstones have a natural hole and can be found on many beaches. Hung in homes to keep away witches or hags, and in stables to stop witches riding horses to exhausted death at night. Look through the stone to see other worlds, spirits and to see through glamours #folklorethursday
My favorite #Witch in #Folklore is the Russian #Fairytale Baba Yaga! Living deep amid the forest in a turning chicken-leg hut; fortified by watching skulls. Known to help strays, she gets around on a flying pestle &mortar; using a broom to sweep away her tracks. #FolkloreThursday