# folklorethursday hpl processions2018 surreal

Palmesel, 15th century

The German “Palmesel” (palm donkey) refers to a statue of Jesus on a donkey, mounted on a wheeled platform, part of Palm Sunday processions in many German-speaking regions until the Reformation (Met Museum)

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2020-04-05

Unfairly called villain, the banshee? She’s a harbinger of death but reminiscent of old Irish funerary processions which included paid mourners to wail/shriek, doesn’t she also mourn death? Why is she always depicted so frightful?

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2019-12-05

Apropos to nothing: leaf cutter ants are adorable. I want to see some actual ones someday and not just on nature videos. I just love their little green-flagged processions.

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2019-07-08

🦑I saw phantom processions of priests with the heads of bulls, falcons, cats & ibises; phantom processions marching through subterraneous labyrinths & avenues of titanic propylaea beside which a man is as a fly & offering unnamable sacrifices to nameless gods🎨Jake Murray🦑#HPL

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2018-06-29

Countdown to 3 days to go! & No.3 of our suffrage timeline: Parliamentary Franchise (Women) Bill is defeated in 1912 by 222 votes to 208, leading to increasingly militant tactics from WSPU – and more hostile anti-suffrage propaganda (image).

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2018-06-07

Lesser-known suffragettes: WSPU members Flora Murray & Louisa Garrett Anderson set up Endell Street Military Hospital in 1915, staffed entirely by suffragettes. On 10 June we're celebrating all the amazing figures who fought so hard for women's suffrage

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2018-05-25

"I realised that I needed to try to find a way to work that reflected my beliefs"

is one of 10 artists, commissioned by for . Read more about the focus of their work and involvement in here: https://t.co/homeUNadhV

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2018-05-18