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Posts tagged
‘poisoning’

Silas Told and the Devil-Fish

Silas Told and the Devil-Fish A giant devil-fish ominously follows a sailing ship as a token of death for the Captain.

Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on June 24, 2017 in Animal Tales, Cryptozoology, Death, Folklore, Fortean Mysteries, Grim and Grewsome, News, Prophecies, religion, Strange Deaths and tagged cryptozoology, deateh omens, giant manta, giant ray, manta ray, poisoning, psychopomp, sailors' superstitions, Silas Told, Silas Told and the Devil-Fish, slave trade

Kiss the Corpse and Then You Die

Kiss the Corpse and Then You Die The custom of kissing the corpse often led to death from infectious disease.

Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on June 20, 2017 in Death, Ephemera, Folklore, Grim and Grewsome, medical oddities, Mourning Customs and History, News, Social History, Strange Deaths, Victorian and tagged diphtheria, indirect poisoning, infectious disease, Kiss the Corpse and Then You Die, kissing the corpse, meningitis, perils of kissing the corpse, poisoning, smallpox, The Perils of Kissing the Corpse, Victorian funerals, Victorian mourning, Victorian mourning customs

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Please visit my other blogs: Mrs Daffodil Digresses: A blog about costume, history, and social ephemera and The Victorian Book of the Dead, on the popular and material culture of Victorian death and mourning.

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