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Author A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death & The Victorian Book of the Dead. Ghosts, death, mourning, costume, Forteana. Podcast: Boggart and Banshee
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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

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

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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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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

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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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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.

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