Sylph🌿

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[Sylph🌿 @sylphaurantium]

Así es como veo yo a los tweets. Sí, son como el gnomo de Amélie. Tal cual.

[Javier Prado Coronel @JaviertPrado]

Qué tesoro tenemos en España con la REVISTA DE FOLKLORE editada por la Fundación Joaquín Díaz desde hace 40 años.

Una publicación con artículos de expertos en leyendas, mitología, tradiciones populares, costumbres...

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[Visions of Manuscripts @VManuscripts]

Una astuta serpiente se defiende de su cazador que intenta adormecerla con música. Para ello, se tapa un oído con su propia cola y presiona la otra oreja contra el suelo. Bestiario del siglo XIII.

Bestiario, siglo XIII, Bestiario, Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 764

[gvales @hvfrue]

favourite christmas story 🌿

[Folklore of Scotland @StephenGeoRae]

The Nuckelavee, thought to derive from the Orcadian word  knoggelvi, meaning "Devil of the Sea". It's a demon from folklore that combines both equine and human elements.
It's breath like a poison.

#folklore #demons #orkney
🖼 Joan Llopis Doménech

[Long Victorian @longvictorian2]

Snow Scene by George Wilson, (Scottish artist, lived 1848 - 1890). A dedicated #PreRaphaelite follower. Here, two figures pause at a gate, #snow and sunset glow; in a cold, quiet world. Or is it dawn? 🤔

[Visions of Manuscripts @VManuscripts]

A finales del siglo XIII y en uno de sus viajes entre China e India, Marco Polo había visto un unicornio. El aventurero no podía ocultar su decepción: “no tiene nada que ver con el animal que solemos describir, puedo asegurar que es exactamente lo opuesto a lo que creemos”... 🧵

[Dr Ella Hawkins @EllaMcHawk]

Centuries ago, many astronomical books included moving parts to help readers interpret the world around them.

This biscuit recreates a diagram from Sacrobosco’s ‘De Sphaera’ (c.1550). It could be used to calculate the changing length of daylight hours through the year. 🍪

[Stephen G. Rae @BardCumberland]

Cernunnos sleeps,
the Old God sleeps
down in the dark, moist
odorous underfoot,
waiting for us
to put down our roots
~ J. A. Reinbold

#cernunnos #mythology
🖼 Luke Hillestad

[Medieval Manuscripts @BLMedieval]

Herbals were essential handbooks in the study of medieval medicine, as they outlined the therapeutic properties of different plants and herbs.

Today's blogpost explores the pages of a 13th-century herbal and its use in medieval women's healthcare.

https://t.co/2N2gMRiDhw

[Alice Nebularis @AliceNebularis]

🎨“The Kingdom of Arthurian Britain” by Teyrnas

[Javier Prado Coronel @JaviertPrado]

Estoy obsesionado con el arte del checo Jaroslav Panuška (1872-1958), quien no dudó en poblar los fríos paisajes de su obra pictórica con brujas, fantasmas e incluso la mismísima muerte "mirando por la ventana de un moribundo".

[Medieval Manuscripts @BLMedieval]

In this clever marginal illustration, the medieval artist has created the illusion of a piece of rope driven through the page and attached on the other side, to support an added line of text.

(Harley MS 612, f. 232r-v)

https://t.co/JME4dtFiNQ

[Grant Snider @grantdraws]

Poetry Comics Month, Day 2: Transformation

[Daniel P. Espinosa @danielpespinosa]

Aventura de Ars Magica liberada en paga lo que quieras. De la mano de Oscar Estefanía, uno de los editores que se harán cargo del juego ahora.

https://t.co/ADyagnS34p

[Laura Makabresku @KamilaKansy]

The soul journeys on, despite the night, frost, or hardship. Its feet bleed, each step laced with pain. Yet it goes on, for it has been blessed with love, longing to share it with others. In its sacrifice, life is born anew.

[Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer]

This Roman miniature skeleton with flexible joints (now missing several limbs), jumps & dances when shaken. The Romans called these skeletons larva convivalis, meaning banquet ghost, and were handed out to guests at dinner parties to remind them to have fun while they were alive.

[Sylph🌿 @sylphaurantium]

https://t.co/T6Av3TjVMr