Chris Woodyardさんのイラストまとめ

#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."

Today's #Halloween #ghoststory is from Haunted Ohio III: The Phantom Mansion. There are a surprising number of "ghost house" tales from the around the world.

Today's #Halloween #Ghoststory comes from Haunted Ohio III.

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead The night-watch over a corpse and a sinister aural haunting. I do love a ghost story that includes mourning customs. https://t.co/OR4QlGXayg

#MrsDaffodil sewing joke du jour 1869

“Why are you so late this morning?” we asked our boy.
He answered, “’Cos I held the candle till midnight for mother, who sat up mending stockings. She says she saw a book in the shop-window that says, ‘It’s never too late to mend.’