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Little red dragon with blue horns and golden wings, surrounded by gold foliage, illustration from illuminated MS.

A little marginalia.
Dragonlet, Book of Hours, Paris c.1410.

Feline performance art!

Illustration of a female red headed warrior riding a mythical beast

An old illustration from 2022

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The Sea Monster
by Theodor Severin Kittelsen (1881)
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Spring themed art doll with bulb head in green and yellow hues

SPRING SENTINELS 🌱🌞

Two new characters inspired by the coming of Spring, emerging new growth and bulbs flowering. Made from reclaimed/recycled materials.

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Thanks for all the love and comments on these two!

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#magick
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Fairy appearing from yellow flower on dark background, rabbit looking up. Illustration. From The Velveteen Rabbit.

The Fairy Flower, William Nicholson. #FaerieFriday

Hannah Spencer: councillor, plumber, greyhound lover and the only candidate who can beat Reform in Gorton & Denton today 💚

Two art dolls in spring colours with bulb heads

Spring Sentinels

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#bulbs

A figure in black/dark purple, with a staff, walks a path through a landscape under a blue sky. Oil painting in brown, vibrant yellows, greens, blues and russet.

A Witch in the Swamp
by Paul Ranson, 1897

group of men in fancy dress... a lot of them have antlers one has a hobby horse

'The players in the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance'
John Benjamin Stone, ca. 1900

I think two things can be true at once. You can acknowledge that neurodivergence and mental illness deserves grace, while also acknowledging that you are not obligated to accept hurtful treatment. As a neurodivergent and mentally ill person, I understand that I don’t get a free pass to hurt people.

Love!!

St Milburga in nun-like robes, gestures at some geese to persuade them to eat the crops elsewhere.

It’s the feast day of Saint Milburga(d. OTD in 727). Abbess of Wenlock Priory She could create springs of water, make barley grow and persuade geese not to eat the crops in Shropshire.
Raging torrents would also appear to stop men from molesting her. Here she is persuading some Shropshire geese.

#MythologyMonday
Wandering the Mexican Sierra, La Loba tirelessly gathers wolf bones until she has enough for a full skeleton. She takes the bones to her cave and sits by the fire, singing until a living wolf springs from the bones ....
🎨Marisa Quinn

Image of two bulbs made from textiles

Spring is on her way!

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Two hand collaged cards of magical flowers and a hand embroidered human faced vegetable

New things are coming hopefully along with some better weather 🌞

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Japanese carved brown wood image of a mermaid with sleeked back hair streaming behind her and a hand on her scaly tail.

#FolkloreThursday In Japanese folklore, eating the flesh of a ningyo, or mermaid, grants eternal life and youth. It was also said that Ningyo blood will cure any wound.

Boxwood ningyo netsuke, Tadayoshi, 19th century
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'Smiling' fossil discovered in Northumberland The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.

Can't help thinking this is the sort of thing a 12th-century chronicler would record as an unheard-of prodigy, just before something really bad happens www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A mari dressed in a snowdrop inspired dress

A Snowdrop Mari

Photo of a crustose lichen on tree bark. The lichen is light green-grey with numerous brown discs that have white rims (the apothecia). The lichen is roughly oval in shape, with pointed ends.

Lichen, Lecanora epibryon. NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends
Lichen is approximately 5cm long.

Drawing in biro

An old doodle I added some colour to...

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Roman roof fitting depicting a cruse shaped head

Roman roof fitting depicting a female spirit

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Babylonian sphinx style art doll

Naṣāru-Šēpetaya

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Sunset

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Omg I looked so similar to this!! 😁

An etching in black and white on sepia background. Six icycle-framed screens depicting different (rather horrific) stories, with the text LEGENDS OF ICELAND in the middle and a skull at the bottom.

LEGENDS OF ICELAND

Jón Árnason 1962

Frontispiece by J. B. Zwecker for edition translated George E. J. Powell and Eiríkur Magnússon 1864

#wyrdwednesday #illustration

Centaurs, dragons, and snail shell houses — just a few of the otherworldly marvels depicted in a 15th-century French manuscript (BnF, Français 22971) illustrated by Robert Testard. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/secrets-de-l-histoire-naturelle/

Theodor Kittelsen’s Svartedauden (1900): The personified plague - A skeleta, crone-like figure passes through a desolate village, mountains looming like tombstones

“Owls are howling, loons are crying.
Ghosts haunt the land. Ghosts haunt the sea,
moaning and sighing,
weeping and keening.”

(From “Svartedauden”, Black Death - 🎨&✍🏻 Theodor Kittelsen, 1900)

#wyrdwednesday #goldenageofillustration #bookillustration #booksky

A princess, crowned and cloaked in ermine, sits in quiet contemplation beside a slumbering chameleon-like dragon, its scales glinting like emerald ice, as winter’s breath and silent owls bear witness to Maximilian Liebenwein’s dream of St. George’s legend.

Maximilian Liebenwein "The Libyan Princess" (c 1900)

Part of an AustrianArt Nouveau-inspired series of prints illustrating the Legend of St George.

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medieval illustration of Croesus being rained on by a cloud

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