Chris Woodyardさんのイラストまとめ

#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

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Watch out for too much #Christmas punch! The Last Drop, Thomas Rowlandson, 1801

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#FolkloreThursday In Belgium, on the 25th of November, the feast of St Catherine of Alexandria, if St. Catherine appears in a white veil (snow), the winter will be hard.

#FolkloreThursday Some images of #JackFrost
Jack Frost costume from "Santa Claus" panto, 1894
1910 Jack Frost with his silver brush, Jack Frost and Parsnip, 1914
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