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  • Death and Mourning

The Dead and their Ghostly Baggage of Superstitions

  • by Patricia
  • Posted on July 1, 2016July 1, 2016

Featured image via the enchanting WhiteWit.Ch. I haven’t posted an original blog post for a couple…

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  • Death and Mourning

Coffins Vs. Caskets

  • by Patricia
  • Posted on April 14, 2016April 14, 2016

Is there a difference between the two? As it turns out, yes. Clifford A. Pickover,…

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  • Death and Mourning

We’re Seeking New Ways of Mourning Collectively

  • by Patricia
  • Posted on March 4, 2016

How we mourn the famous reveals something much larger about our culture as a whole:…

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  • Death and Mourning

Shrouds or Lingerie? Traditional Female Burial Garments

  • by Patricia
  • Posted on March 3, 2016March 3, 2016

shroud noun 1. a length of cloth or an enveloping garment in which a dead…

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  • Death and Mourning

Sewing The Family’s Shroud: Women and Work in the Victorian Era

  • by Patricia
  • Posted on February 4, 2016February 4, 2016

Featured Image: “Victorian Mother and Child.” Artist unknown. Source:http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/victorian-mother-and-child-168395 As early as eight years old,…

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  • Death and Mourning

A Poor Woman’s Burden: The Fear of Erasure in the Era of the Victorian Cemetery

  • by Patricia
  • Posted on January 14, 2016

‘What did a poor woman work for, but in hopes that she should be put…

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  • Death and Mourning

Funerary Darlings: The Tradition of Child Pallbearers

  • by Patricia
  • Posted on January 7, 2016January 7, 2016

Image: “Vintage Funeral Little Girl Pallbearers Little Casket Old Time Funeral Children” via superiorview on…

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  • Death and Mourning

Miasma, Effluvia,and the Mythos of Rotting

  • by Patricia
  • Posted on December 31, 2015January 7, 2016

As I’m continuing to read The Work of the Dead by Thomas W. Laqueur and examining…

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  • Other Places

Have a penchant for collecting vintage occult books?

  • by Patricia
  • Posted on December 21, 2015December 21, 2015

Featured image: my personal photo from Blenheim Palace. Today over at Dirge Magazine, I show…

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  • Death and Mourning

Widows and Virgins: The Curse of Being a Single Woman

  • by Patricia
  • Posted on December 17, 2015January 7, 2016

Featured image: Art and Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. “Mourning-Dress ; Bonnets.” The…

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