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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Heartless joke du jour 1888
Mr. Mould (the undertaker): I heard some bad news today. A man whom I’ve known for years has just died.
Mrs. Mould (smiles): That ought not to be very bad news for us, Uriah.
Mr. Mould: He was blown up by dynamite, my dear.

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead 1882 widow snark 2/2.
Probably the principal change [the widow] feels from his loss is one in her income, and men have been known to designedly curtail the finances in such instances in order to insure that they should be missed in some degree.

#FolkloreThursday German Easter card with spring-flower fairy, lamb, and chicks.
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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #NationalBeerDay L. Crusius illustration "Ein Stein!" for 1899 Antikamnia patent medicine calendar. https://t.co/vDXX8qQ2I5

#WorldRatDay Ominous series of drawings by Albert Lloyd Tarter, done in the 1940s for a film about the role of rats in plague transmission. These uneasy-making drawings may hint at why the film was never made. https://t.co/kWcCRx5VM5

#ForteanFriday Louisville's Hoodoo Dog, said to doom any man he befriended. https://t.co/koIQeOTnwq

#FolkloreThursday Although the Resurrection Men sold corpses, legally a body was not property. Bodies were often stripped; it was a felony to steal shrouds or silver coffin fittings. [Image-Thomas Rowlandson, 1775]
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#ForteanFriday Called by the Dead The living are called by the dead to join them, even if it means committing suicide. The dead can be so demanding…https://t.co/yRXYAJrmbW

#ShakespeareSunday
Who pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood
With that grim ferryman which poets write of,
Unto the kingdom of perpetual night.
Richard III c. 1591, I. 4. 45
[Skeleton ferrying souls of the damned, British Library, 1851]
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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead 1902 Some of the people in the [Hebrides] Islands have such a horror of the dead that there is sometimes a difficulty in getting a corpse prepared for burial. It is said that those who have once handled a dead body are never afraid again.