Godfrey's Almanackさんのイラストまとめ

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How political operatives used a #conspiracy tale about "magick colleges" to "dehumanise and bludgeon" rivals in #earlymodern Bohemia & England:

https://t.co/j8mG8pJqdU

Johannes Praetorius was an #earlymodern "witchcraft reporter" and a key infuence on the Brothers Grimm.

To learn more about his life, we spoke with Professor Gerhild Scholz Williams, vice provost of Washington University in St. Louis.

https://t.co/vCusYlpIUV

#FolkloreThursday

In the "fortune-hunting" issue of Godfrey's Almanack, we track the bizarre lives of history's most artful rogues.

Our journey takes us from the streets of London to the hinterlands of Siberia: https://t.co/DprzCpEB5D

Some images of the illustrious Joan of Arc, who was martyred #OTD in 1431.

"Jehanne was gentle in the roughest struggle, good amongst the bad, pacific in war itself; she bore into war...the spirit of God." - Jules Michelet

Art by: T.A. Dean, G. Pownall, and H. Piffard.

Travellers who had fallen asleep in the open were in danger of being "torn to pieces by these ferocious birds". - Francis de Castelnau on Andean Condors

ref: "Reptiles and Birds" by Louis Figuier (1870). #folklorethursday