hjärnspöken

Summoning the lord of Death.

Eat your heart out.

by @jenkinvanzyl http://ift.tt/1QE3GhU

Volver (2006) directed by Pedro Almodóvar

Attempt at healing a child sick with rickets by pulling it through a “healing tree”, in Uppland, Sweden. 1918.

oh my god

True Detective (2014) The Secret Fate of All Life Cary Joji Fukunaga

Kaliningrad, Russia. A bear sits alone in a pit in Kaliningrad zoo. 2001.

untitled by geneviève bjargardóttir on Flickr.

Adipocere. Adipocere also known as corpse, grave or mortuary wax, is a wax-like organic substance formed by the anaerobic bacterial hydrolysis of fat in tissue, such as body fat in corpses. In its formation, putrefaction is replaced by a permanent firm cast of fatty tissues, internal organs and the face. Adipocere was first described by Sir Thomas Browne in his discourse Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658).     In a Hydropicall body ten years buried in a Church-yard, we met with a fat concretion, where the nitre of the Earth, and the salt and lixivious liquor of the body, had coagulated large lumps of fat, into the consistence of the hardest castile-soap: wherof part remaineth with us. The chemical process of adipocere formation, saponification, came to be understood in the 17th century when microscopes became widely available. Augustus Granville is believed to have  made candles from the adipocere of a mummy and used them to light the public lecture he gave to report on the mummy’s dissection.