According to Lady Wilde, if a short cut was taken while carrying a corpse to the grave, the dead would be insulted and disturbed in the coffin...

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"The premature burial" ——Antoine Wiertz ,1854

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Antoine Wiertz
アントワーヌ・ヴィールツ
『早すぎた埋葬』

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A vampire can be prevented from leaving its grave in the first place by stuffing the entrance with woven linen. It has to remain behind to disentangle and straighten the threads...

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Here are some works by Belgian Romantic painter and sculptor Antoine Joseph Wiertz (22 February 1806 – 18 June 1865).

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Kind of grooving on this portrayal of Quasimodo as a bearded, pensive zaddy type, by always quirky 19th-century Belgian painter Antoine Wiertz https://t.co/LBWleznoYJ

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Antoine Joseph Wiertz, L'Inhumation précipitée, 1854. [2000X1367]

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A Flemish tale says that a lawyer who had died walked out of his coffin. The gravediggers filled his coffin with stones because they didn't want to scare the people. The lawyer haunted until someone bricked up the ghost and banished him to a cellar.

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The Premature Burial (1854) by Antoine Wiertz (Belgian, 1806-1865). Wiertz Museum. The common means to determine death were usually rough and ready or absurd by today's standards. No wonder many feared a premature burial.

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For I'm posting some of the nineteenth century art that's inspiring me as I work on Inferno, the game of swashbuckling steampunk adventure.

Wiertz's 1854 'Premature burial' has a lovely, pulpy horror feel

Learn more at https://t.co/3Dkj66lJyn

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The Premature Burial (1854) by Antoine Wiertz (Belgian, 1806-1865). Wiertz Museum. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's short story (1844) of the same name.

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"The Angel of Evil," Antoine Wiertz, 1839.

Pretty much never getting that sheet back.

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アントワーヌ・ヴィールツ / Antoine Wiertz(1806年 - 1865年)ベルギーの画家
《自殺》《早すぎた埋葬》、《麗しのロジーヌ》《飢餓、狂気、犯罪》

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The Premature Burial (1854) by Antoine Wiertz (1806-1865). Wiertz Museum. Belgian romantic painter and sculptor. Here is a new Scrabble word for you - "taphophobia".

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'Then will he dreadfully return,
And from my veins life's juices drain;
Whilst, slumb'ring, I with anguish mourn,
And toss with agonizing pain!'
-John Stagg, the vampyre.

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The Premature Burial (1854) by Antoine Wiertz (Belgian, 1806-1865). Wiertz Museum. Wiertz enjoyed a macabre title - other paintings include The Suicide (1854) and Visions of a Decapitated Head (1853).

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Antoine Joseph Wiertz was a Belgian romantic painter and sculptor. He died in his studio. His remains were embalmed in accordance with Ancient Egyptian burial rites and buried in a vault in the municipal cemetery of Ixelles
Source: https://t.co/v0907HAq3L

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博愛。だが蜚蠊、お前は駄目だ。


Antoine Wiertz - Things Of The Present In Front Of The People Of The Future (1820-1828)

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