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« Reply #180 on: June 29, 2010, 11:40:22 AM »
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« Reply #181 on: June 30, 2010, 06:46:15 PM »
Heh, ran across a description from an auction that I may have to lift for my campaign.

'Cover leather over rosewood, pages vellum. Both cover leather and page vellum are anthropodermic, part of a collection of memento mori bibliopegy c. 15 C.. Dogged, with damage to pages from ink etching. Illuminated capitals flaking.'

The creep factor is if you know what anthropodermic means....  Evil

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« Reply #182 on: July 01, 2010, 01:21:34 AM »
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The creep factor is if you know what anthropodermic means....  Evil

I certainly do, and is that even legal to sell? (I'm guessing the age of the item makes it okay)
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« Reply #183 on: July 01, 2010, 03:30:12 AM »
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The creep factor is if you know what anthropodermic means....  Evil

I certainly do, and is that even legal to sell? (I'm guessing the age of the item makes it okay)
As an antique, yes. Anthropodermic bibliopegy is actually more recent and more widespread than some might think - there are some anatomies that were created in 19th C. prisons where the deceased prisoner was not only the subject matter.... And there are the rumors about the concentration camps in Germany during WWII. (I seem to recall a book from Buchenwald that was auctioned off during the 1970s, to benefit public television....) Then there is the joy of finding such a book lying in the street.

Memento mori are amazingly macabre by modern standards anyway - Sedlec Ossuary is a sterling example. People used to wear locks of hair from deceased parents, and I have seen several rings made from sections of leg bone.

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« Reply #184 on: January 24, 2012, 09:32:47 PM »
I Am a Drainer - another blog about drains.... Smiley Big, wander around inside of, drains. With pretty pictures.

Disused Lines & Stations of the London Under Ground.

The Necropolis Railway - the rail line that ran from London to its cemetery.

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« Reply #185 on: April 12, 2012, 09:59:27 PM »
Necropants....  Shocked Ewww!
Pants made from the skin of a dead guy, and used in sorcery.

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From the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery & Witchcraft.

Gotta be a way that I can use that....

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« Reply #186 on: April 13, 2012, 07:32:26 AM »
THIS IS WHY WE CANNOT HAVE NICE THINGS.

(And why did I click that knowing it would be hours before being able to bleach my brain?  Huh? )
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« Reply #187 on: April 13, 2012, 10:23:04 PM »
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THIS IS WHY WE CANNOT HAVE NICE THINGS.

(And why did I click that knowing it would be hours before being able to bleach my brain?  Huh? )
Trust me, Iceland has a worse museum than that. Take a look around the archives for the webcomic Scandinavia And The World.... (The comic linked to is Safe For Work... others, including the two about that museum are definitely not.)

The scary thing is that I knew about that museum before encountering it in the comic.  Undecided

Iceland... can be a trifle strange.

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