Chris Woodyardさんのイラストまとめ

#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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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead 1886 Mr Brown died and left a widow. She did not long mourn, but bestowed her hand (she had no heart) upon Dr. Ward, who attended her husband in his last illness. The townspeople are very indignant and will take up her husband's remains for examination.

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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I'm doing a brief program on Victorian Christmas ghost stories in a few weeks. Many of my favourites--like "The Crown Derby Plate"--are too long for the format, so I'm looking for recommendations for a shorter tale. Thoughts?

Today's #Halloween #ghoststory is from Haunted Ohio III. "The Banshee."

Today's #Halloween #ghoststory about a phantom hitchhiker comes from Haunted Ohio III's chapter on "Highways to Hell."