Lucy's skeleton

"Naturally a Japanese child, when sent in the dusk to draw water, will do so with fear and trembling, for this limp, floppy apparition might scare the boldest." From Books and Bookmen (1886) by Andrew Lang, a collector of Japanese bogie stories

Winged Skull, Italy, 17th/18th century

“The Borremose bodies are three bog bodies that were found in the Borremose peat bog in Himmerland, Denmark. Recovered between 1946 and 1948, the bodies of a man and two women have been dated to the Nordic Bronze Age.”

Bhopal, India - Dec. 3, 2016: Gas affected people burning an effigy of Union Carbide and Dow chemicals out side the UCIL factory on the 32nd anniversary of Bhopal gas disadter in Bhopal, India, on Saturday, December 3, 2016. (Photo by Mujeeb Faruqui/ Hindustan Times)(Mujeeb Faruqui/HT PHOTO)

The photo originally appeared in the November 1928 issue of National Geographic. The original caption was: “With huge cadaver masks, imitation tiger-skin skirts, and enormous claws, this performer and his seven similarly garbed companions strike terror to the hearts of spectators in the Old Dance. They are assistants of Showa the Deer, messenger of Yama”. The picture was taken in 1925, when Joseph Rock visited Choni monastery in Gansu province, where he based himself for two years while undertaking his unsuccessful attempt to reach the mountains of Amnyi Machen. During that time he witnessed the “devil dancers” of Choni.

Master of Belmonte (1450-1500), Saint Michael