From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
Some rather surprising vintage candle imagery.
Tag: skeleton
“The discovery of the skeleton at the Old Moon,” from Miranda by James Malcolm Rymer, 1848.It’s been said that “skeletons symbolize everyone’s condition in the world, where we are all left abandoned and starving, longing desperately for union with and nourishment from heaven and earth”: see my skeletons gallery.
From Kramola, 1905.
Rattling through the dusts of time: my skeletons gallery.
Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), ‘Remorse’, “Fifty Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley”, 1920
The Day of the Dead, some skeletons came out their graves, got drunk and went to my farm which is near the cemetery. They made a real mess and scared the animals—my poor chicken and pigs. I prayed the Virgin of Guadalupe for protection, and she made a miracle. The rooster sang much earlier before the dawn, and the skeletons ran to their graves leaving us in peace.
One night, my friend Bryan and I decided to sneak into the cemetery and pass few beers there. Nothing frightened us at all. We were joking when suddenly we heard a voice “Don’t be mean, pass me a beer!” We turned around and saw that it was a dead man. We thank the Virgin of Zapopan for we ran out of the cemetery safely. We promise to pay more respect to the dead.
Kevin Hernández
Zapopan, Jalisco
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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