Chris Woodyardさんのイラストまとめ

#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.’

#MrsDaffodil on the lament of a man cast out of his home by fruit. The Women Folk are Canning Fruit. https://t.co/5baYCa1ZBJ

#FolkloreThursday Reported in 1896
The funeral procession must not cross a river.
Baldwinsville, N. Y.
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For #ForteanFriday and #SharkWeek stories of curious things (and people) eaten by sharks.
https://t.co/chU15NvWwk

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead 1883
A colonel was courting an Austin widow.
A friend asked the widow how she spent her days.
“Most of my time is taken up with general duties.”
“General Duties! You fickle creature. What will the colonel say when he finds the general cutting him out!

#MrsDaffodil on a little girl convalescing at the sea-side and how she used her camera. https://t.co/n1Qa4UDDCF

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead A cane made of "Wood of Grant's Funeral Car." This might be the Albany funeral car (top photo) or the New York City funeral car (below)
https://t.co/QLyZk9Z2xs

#FolkloreThursday I'm a bit reluctant to post this because I'm very fond of bats, so don't try this at home. To see in the darkest night: grease the eyes with the blood of a bat. And: The heart of a bat tied between two pieces of silver, will protect from evil.

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Widow's Bonnet from Eaton's Spring and Summer Catalogue, 1904. $5.00 to $10.00, depending on quality of veil.