'Ghostly Wood' by Daisy Makeig-Jones/Wedgwood (c1916) Fairyland lustre jar and lid with decoration inspired by the illustrations of 'The Legend of Croquemitaine' by Gustave Doré, with woods, ghosts, fairies and goblins. @V_and_A
HENRY MEYNELL RHEAM 1859-1920 excels at allegorical and literary subjects, especially human encounters with woodland fairies; perfect for #GothicSpring. This painting is suggestive of William Allingham 'we daren't go ahunting for fear of little men' ooh!
I’m everyone’s darling: the blackbird and starling Are shouting about me from blossoming boughs;
For I, the Lent Lily, the Daffy-down-dilly, Have heard through the country the call to arouse..
#DaffodilFairy#FlowerFairies#CicelyMaryBarker
we need a Scott Pilgrim-type movie about a man who must protect his partner when all the bad boys of literature—Romeo, Rochester, Heathcliff, Gatsby—emerge from the pages of literature wanting to go out with her.
Similar to a kind of incubus, the "sburător" of Romanian folklore is a winged demon in the shape of a very handsome man who appears to newly married women at night and attempts to seduce them into illicit sexual activities. It is only visible to its victim. #folklorethursday