Wild Man astride a dragon pulled by a pegasus.
Illustration of a pageant sleigh from a winter parade held in 1640-41, Nuremberg. From the Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg, Bavaria (112pp late 16c-mid 17c) [Held in Metropolitan Museum of Art]

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Things have been a bit busy for us so we’ve been slacking on our social media.. but we’d never miss a

This gorgeous illustration is from a Persian medical encyclopedia published in the 1600s. From National Library of Medicine.

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🥀 Iman 🥀 he/him 🥀 361 🥀 Egyptian vampire 🥀

He was turned in the mid-1600s when he was barely 18. He lived as a concubine to the vampire who turned him for centuries, and thought he would forever. However, his master was recently killed, leaving him directionless.

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Could you love, or lust after, a fairy? Goodwin Wharton, an English nobleman and politician, did. During the late 1600s, assisted by his cunning-woman lover, he repeatedly tried to arrange nocturnal meetings with the Fairy Queen.



(Picture of his brother).

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Keumalahayati (1550s-1600s), or Malahayati, was 1st woman admiral in Indonesia, or perhaps modern world. She led Inong Bale army of women who lost their husbands to the Portuguese, fought the Dutch & killed leader Cornelis de Houtman https://t.co/xrtlsxxbpj

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Map of the underground world and its volcanic system (1665) by Athanasius Kircher (1602–80). German Jesuit scholar & polymath who published c. 40 major works, inc. comparative religion, geology & medicine.

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On the peninsula, Sumatran traders were usually blamed, especially those of Kerinci origin. Kerinci peddlers have been trading in the peninsula from as far as the 1600s. There exists evidence of Kerinci people being lynched in British Malaya on accusation of being weretigers

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Day 25: Matthew Henry
-Protestant minister in the late 1600s.
-Best known for his massive "Commentary on the Whole Bible."
allows you to read the Bible along with Henry's commentary open next to the bible app. It's free and a great help in Bible study!

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Foxgloves. Deadly poisonous... but did you know that in the 1600s they were recommended as a treatment for epilepsy?
We'll be separating medicinal uses from medical myths in our next 'Healing Garden' opening on the 10th Sept.
https://t.co/SKj6rPVfmd

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やっとスペース確認しました!!(忘れてただけ)
9月17日の裏稼業9は東2ホールス32bでした!!今回東2と東3の方がいるのね~!裏稼業全体とはいえ1600sp越え‥恐ろしい‥😱
もう少し加工するけど暫定表紙。シリアスです。当日無事日本が出せるように中身これからがんばります!!!

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You might be familiar with medicinal herbs but what about medicinal flowers? In the 1600s, primroses were used to make a 'salve' - an ointment - for healing wounds!
More surprising uses coming soon in 'Healing Garden'. https://t.co/gnF4c9QmzI

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'Wolfwalkers' is the third film from in the trilogy of Irish folklore-themed animated features after The Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea. In this final piece of the triptych we'll go to the mid-1600s Kilkenny and join both hunters and wolfs in a time of war🐺

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The changing temptations of St.Anthony. In art of the 1400s "The Temptations of St.Anthony" were depicted as tortures by demons. By the 1600s, he was bothered by madness & daily banality. In the 1800s his temptations were entirely sexual
Pic 1- by Joos van Craesbeeck (1625-1660)

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Some fab interpretations of today’s Girl with a Pearl Headdress (Central-European school, 1600s) over at ! ✏️These by

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Been wanting to do a drawing for a while now of Julie d’Aubigny aka Mlle Maupin, bisexual swordswoman/opera singer from the late 1600s. This woman did not give af and if you haven't heard of her, I suggest looking her up because her story is pretty A+

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My novel's main character, Eyvindr, just might be the gayest boi around in the late 1600s, so I just had to doodle his luscious hair for 25 mins
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I'm going to post a timelapse of this on YouTube Tuesday, unless you wanna see it here too 😎 so let me know

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Mallory Schwarz, German doctor who studied Alchemy. Born near 1600s. Now just works in an oddity shop.

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If u want to know why the crowd is brown OR also if you're interested in Toga Party Artist Sex Cults in the 1600s: https://t.co/El1LjBXqJx

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