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#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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@AldenBrien @IsobelCarr You're quite right about the needlework/memorial pictures. Perhaps the push for white mourning came as the hard-core evangelical "Prepare to meet thy God at any any moment!" softened c. 1830s onward? Strangely, both conventional Christians and Spiritualists advocated for white.

#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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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Is it too early to post about #Easter bunnies?
Illustration by Charles Copeland for Pinocchio, 1904

For #ForteanFriday The Hoodoo Dog of Louisville, Kentucky was said to doom any man he befriended.
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#FolkloreThursday 1884 The herring fishermen of England and Scotland believe that if a woman touches a net without first having repeated the Lord’s Prayer, they will catch no fish in it.

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Those who have second sight say when a shroud is seen about a person, the time of his death is judged according to the height of the shroud upon his person. The higher it is toward the head, the sooner his death will be.