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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.
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#FolkloreThursday It was said that in the early 18th c. fairies tried to carry off Langton House, crying:
Lift one, lift a'
Baith at back and fore wa',
Up and away wi' Langton House,
And set it down in Dogden Moss.

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #InternationalNursesDay During the Great War, the nurse facing down death or murdered by the enemy was a popular theme in art, inspired both by Nurse Edith Cavell and the heroism of thousands of unnamed nurses in the field.
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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #BirdDay Doves were a popular addition to funeral flowers. Could be bought or hired for the occasion.

#FolkloreThursday A strange tale of a witch and the many-colored cats that appeared at her death. https://t.co/49mBcUFOIq

#BatAppreciationDay #TheVictorianBookoftheDead
Long-eared bat flying over a churchyard, J.W. Whimper
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#TheVIctorianBookoftheDead The Queen's Rose, 1910

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