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#FolkloreThursday. This is an 1899 double-exposed photo (so say the experts) that allowed this ghostly image. I think "spiritography" from the 19c and early 20c are fabulous. Happy Halloween early - this puts my in the spirit! #Halloween2022 #ghosts

#FolkloreThursday - Art degree coming out! Behind (on the back of the canvas) the famous Nightmare by Henry Fuseli in 1781 is the portrait of a woman on the reverse - obviously a society beauty but with terrifying, demonic hands. #Art #Painting #Regency #Masterpieces

#FolkloreThursday Daniel Gardner's 3 Witches 1775. Setting taken from Shakespeare were portraits of the most politically influential & socially notorious women of the time: Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne, Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire & sculptor Anne Seymour Damer.

#FolkloreThursday Daniel Gardner's 3 Witches 1775. Setting taken from Shakespeare were portraits of the most politically influential & socially notorious women of the time: Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne, Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire & sculptor Anne Seymour Damer.

#FolkloreThursday Christmas Eve Ghost stories - about darker, older, more fundamental times: winter, death, rebirth near the darkest day of the year, when the dead might understandably have more access to the living.

#FolkloreThursday - Boys used to be clothed in dresses for ease in toilet training, but (it is said in certain circles) also to confuse spirits who might steal them away! Paining of Henry Gibbs by Freake-Gibbs - Boston 1670

#FolkloreThursday - Do NOT point! At stars, that is. According to legend stars might be gods looking down on you, and to point would anger them and bad luck was sure to ensue. Below is a 1660 celestial map. Just so you know where not to point!