snake charmer

"God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade: Exit seraphim and Satan's men: I shut my eyes and the world drops dead."

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Grimm’s Fairy Tales 

paperback edition with Cruickshank Illustrations c1900

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The Red Spectre | 1907

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Valentine Cameron Prinsep - "The Lady With The Owl"

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Basically me

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adding these to the list of ethereal objects that would cure me

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Maud d'Orby on a vintage postcard

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Laudanum, Edward D. Depew & Co., about 1880-1900:

Laudanum, a solution of opium and alcohol, was commonly used as a painkiller and a sedative in 19th- and early 20th-century America. In large doses it could also be used as a poison, and figured in several notorious murder cases.

Dosage Instructions:

Three months old - 2 drops

One year old - 4 drops

Four years old - 6 drops

Ten years old - 14 drops

Twenty years old - 25 drops

Adult - 30 drops

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Chastleton House - Photo - Ros Byamshaw

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©Philomena Famulok

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“Still life with book, skull, and pistol”

— Otto Scharf, c. 1896–1901

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old books

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