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For today’s #FolkloreThursday here’s some household + death lore💀🐝
In the 18th & 19th centuries in the U.S. and Western Europe, a strange ritual involving households that kept bees took place called ‘The Telling of the Bees.’
(Image by Nikolay Tolmachev)
19th century papier-mâché anatomical model of a worker bee made by Dr. Louis Thomas Jerôme Auzoux
Folklore and fairy tales inspired this series by photographer Kilian Schönberger, entitled ‘Brothers Grimm's Wanderings’
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With this final act she was able to provide a living (or in this case, decaying), example of the valuable lessons she tried to impart in life.
Her dying wish inspired a new kind of Buddhist painting known as Kyuaizu. Read more here: https://t.co/BJsKV9GNu9
Half of Los Angeles today after staying awake all night to comfort scared and anxious pets during that thunder storm ⛈
Slytherin Spring fashion trends for 2019 🐍 🐍🐍
Aloisia Rucellai evening bag made of gold and platinum with translucent enamel, diamonds, and rubies, 1968. From the Hermitage Museum.
Since it’s Edward Gorey’s birthday today, here’s @AmberCarvaly and I recreating his piece ‘A Dull Afternoon’