Chris Woodyardさんのイラストまとめ

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead What the Cemetery Superintendent Sees: 1896: Flower Thieves, Grave Charms, Grief Arithmetically Measured, Repentance and Black Stockings, Is the Grave Secure?
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#TheVIctorianBookoftheDead Hearse feathers. Variations among hearse plumes.
1867 funeral feather tray or hearse plumes
1870 hearse plume
Belgian mourning plume.
Horsehair hearse plume
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For #ForteanFriday, fearing the Reaper: A fight to the death--with Death. Plus other visits from the hooded King of Terrors.
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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #Death #GrimReaper

#TheVIctorianBookoftheDead 1881
A young wife lost her husband, who was about 70 years old.
“But how did you come to marry a man of that age?” asked her friend.
“Why,” said the young widow, “you see, I only had the choice between two old men, and, of course, I took the oldest.”

#FolkloreThursday Fairies Rescuing a Bird from a Cage, Margaret Tempest.
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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Hist! Went the Corpse: 1889 A cunning plan to shake off a mother-in-law who, to quote the corpse, is a "holy terror. Worse than ten parrots and the hydrophobia."
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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead 1871 A little ten-year-old miss told her mother the other day that she was never going to marry, but meant to be a widow, because widows dressed in such nice black, and always looked so happy.
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#FolkloreThursday Reported in 1907
To find if your lover is true, touch fire to one of his letters. If the flame is bright and clear, he will be true; if the blaze is small and blue, he will forsake you."

#FolkloreThursday 1888
In various places of Scotland, the peasants point out large flat stones under which they suppose the pestilence to be buried, and which they are anxious not to raise, lest it should emerge, and again contaminate the atmosphere.

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead 1878 second mourning costumes.
Personal collection.