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⚰️ VAMPIRE BURIALS, MASCHALISMOS, & OTHER APOTROPAIC BURIAL RITUALS 🪦

a morbid little collection of 25 historically certified ways of preventing the dead from rising as vampires, draugr, ghosts, or other undead beasties.

Bookplates bear a motif relating to the book’s owner, such as a coat-of-arms, crest, badge, motto, or a design commissioned from an artist or designer. The name of the owner usually follows an inscription such as “from the books of...” or “from the library of...”, or in Latin, “ex libris”. Bookplates are important evidence for the provenance of books.

In the United States, bookplates replaced book rhymes (which replaced book curses) after the 19th century.

Schematic illustration of the nervous system. Macfadden's Encyclopedia of physical culture. Volume 1. 1920.