Chris Woodyardさんのイラストまとめ

#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.

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead "Posing the Corpse"--for a joke, so the corpse can accuse a malefactor, or join in the fun of the wake.
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Hell has frozen over for #MementoMoriMonday.
Death on skates, Thomas Rowlandson, The English Dance of Death.

Fairies decorate the Christmas tree, a Margaret Tarrant illustration from In Wheelabout and Cockalon, by Grace Rhys, 1919