I don't have epilepsy otherwise I would give them a go ... ππ¬
@andy-paciorek
Now it's dark... βοΈ ^β^ β ghosts & dreams ~ eros/thanatos ~ uncanny ~ noir ~ curios ~ decadence ~ criminality ~ beautiful-grotesque ~ poisons ~ anomaly ~ (super)nature ~ feline familiars ~ liminality ~ masks ~ grand guignol ~ pathology ~ carnival ~ wyrd
I don't have epilepsy otherwise I would give them a go ... ππ¬
Archaic treatments for epilepsy in Scotland
- drinking blood extracted from own foot, from an old grave-robbed skull.
- drinking well water from a suicide's skull for a fortnight at dawn and dusk.
- drinking the water that a corpse has been washed with.
Guerro No. 9
~ Valère Bernard (c1894)
Nude
~ W.T Benda & Arnold Genthe (c1920s)
W.T. Benda
souvenirs
~ Alexander Louis Patry (1839)
I was on a bus from Darlington to Bishop Auckland at night once when the driver just stopped in a rural stretch and got out and went and pissed in a field.
New Mumia design at my Redbubble online store - available in various apparel styles and colours, stickers etc.
Flash sale - 20 - 40% off items.
View designs here - www.redbubble.com/people/Uncan...
Latest addition to my curiosity collection - a ring that used to be sold at sideshows featuring the giant Jack Earle and were cast from his ring finger measurement.
Yeah the title is bombastic/ clickish but that's pretty common for internet headers now alas.
It's still an interesting read re. archeology/ thanatology.
I have opened the article fine & fully on both phone and laptop - it's not behind a paywall for me. Maybe that depends on your location. π€·ββοΈ
Heroin Addict, London
~ Mary Ellen Mark (1969)
This photo was taken over half a century, yet it looks like it could've been taken today.
bezoar lithopedion mummia
teratoma
usnea
trepanation
foetus in fetu
chimaera
Francesco Balsamo
Currently #Ear-Worming the theme from Dallas as played by 1970's Juvenile Marching 'Jazz' bands on kazoos and drums. π¬ππͺ±
photo ~ Tish Murtha (1979)
Albrecht DΓΌrer (1471-1528), βStag Beetleβ (1505), watercolour and gouache, 11.4 x 14.1 cm.
so it turns out, the βwoke mind virusβ was just empathy for human life.
Thomas Ott
Fog in The Strand
~ photographer unidentified (1930)
Lyceum Theatre near Strand London
~ photographer unidentified (1937)
A friend's mother met him when she was a kid at a children's home. He put his hand up the back of her t-shirt. I remember my friend telling me this long before his crimes became well-known.
Thing is hardly any of the media will inform the wider public of Farage's many many faults - there is of course the thick-bigots who don't care, but if the Murdoch press wasn't so corrupt and the BBC so shit perhaps his unfathomable popularity would plummet.
A collage of images from #Nosferatu of 1922 - on the left a dramatic poster portraying Count Orlok, on the top right the iconic scene of his shadow ascending a staircase, and in the lower right Orlok is fatally exposed to the sun.
On this day in 1922, German director #FWMurnau released the iconic expressionist silent movie #Nosferatu β Eine Symphonie des Grauens (A Symphony of Horror).
Self Portrait with new glasses and new glasses headache (and Medusa hair but I don't give a shit)