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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]
#TheVIctorianBookoftheDead

#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.

#ForteanFriday Fearing the Reaper: A Fight with Death. https://t.co/IF42oFG7xA

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Death as a Drummer Drumming for #TwelveDaysofChristmas

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #NewYearsEve Tick, tick, tick....

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead The Last Drop, Thomas Rowlandson, 1801 #NewYearsEve https://t.co/8WrpUy89CR

Albtei im Eichwald / The Abbey in the Oak Wood, Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1808-1810. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #GothicAdvent

#ForteanFriday Oskorei and Haug-folk – The Dangers of a Norwegian Christmas https://t.co/ADoNRvzF0W

#MementoMoriMonday "When the time comes..." 1692
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