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Forgotten Wisdom – November 7, 2014

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

In strict accordance with Newton's third law of mechanical toys, every jack-in-the-box triggers an equal but opposite reaction.

[For HBG2 and the Disneyland Haunted Mansion pop-up ghosts.]

Printed collections of Forgotten Wisdom diagrams are available: Volume I from Mindful Greetings and Volumes II, III and IV from Amazon. Selected posters are also available via Zazzle.

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#haunted mansion #jack-in-the-box #pop-up ghost #humorous diagram #newton's third law #equal but opposite #fear of god #bejesus

Restoring the Lost Sense – November 5, 2014

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1386734780_sourceAn illustration from The Sociable Ghost by Olive Harper (1903). The caption reads: "Drat that toe! I'm sure I broke it off."

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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]

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#ghost #macabre #cemetery #skeleton #graveyard #broken toe

Restoring the Lost Sense – November 5, 2014

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"Seemed to hover in the air," from Ozmar the Mystic by Emeric Hulme Beaman, 1896.

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#vintage illustration #ghost #conjuration #illustration #hovering

Restoring the Lost Sense – November 2, 2014

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An illustration from The White Wife by Cuthbert Bede (1865). The caption reads: "The Shaving Spectre."

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#spectre #vintage #supernatural #illustration #shaving

Restoring the Lost Sense – November 1, 2014

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This glowing dog manifests itself in Captain Marryat's Novels by Frederick Marryat, 1896.

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#vintage illustration #ghost #dog #ghost dog #illustration #glowing dog #ship captain #sea dog

Restoring the Lost Sense – November 1, 2014

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"The mended ghost": an illustration from The Sociable Ghost by Olive Harper (1903).

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#ghost #macabre #skeleton #book illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – October 29, 2014

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"The Night Side of Nature": an illustration from The Man in the Moon (1847).

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#skeleton #skull #occult #ghosts #darkness #insomnia #up all night #writing #dark side #night side #burning the midnight oil #1840s

Restoring the Lost Sense – October 26, 2014

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An illustration from A Diplomatist's Wife in Japan by Mary Crawford Fraser (1899). The caption reads: "Out for a walk."

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#vintage illustration #ghost #skeleton #vintage japan #japanese art #lantern #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – October 25, 2014

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An illustration from A Woman's Courage by Frederick Wicks (1892).

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#vintage illustration #haunted #spirits #ghosts #illustration

Strange Dreams – October 21, 2014

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An illustration from Belial's Burdens, or, Down with the McWhings, written and illustrated by James Frank Sullivan (1896). The caption reads: "The spectral visitants."

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If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!

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#vintage illustration #nightmare #spectre #ghosts #frogs #hallucination #illustration

Yesterday's Weather – October 18, 2014

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From Sketch-Book of the North by George Eyre Todd, 1896.

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#vintage illustration #otherworld #ghosts #haunted forest #illustration #nature spirits

Restoring the Lost Sense – October 14, 2014

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From The Ingoldsby Legends by Thomas Ingoldsby, 1881.

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#vintage illustration #ghost #spectre #severed head #headless #decapitated #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – October 11, 2014

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The mysterious white hand, from The Great Jekyll Diamond by John Lawton Owen, 1897.

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#vintage illustration #ghost #fright #mysterious #illustration #phantom hand

Restoring the Lost Sense – October 11, 2014

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An illustration from The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott A'beckett (1897).

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#vintage illustration #ghost #halloween #practical joke #spooky #october #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – October 9, 2014

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From Favourite English Poems and Poets, 1870.

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#vintage illustration #spirits #ghosts #spiritualism #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – September 30, 2014

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From Southerly Busters by Ironbark, 1878.

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#vintage illustration #ghost #spectre #spooky #spirit #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – September 28, 2014

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"Just place your hand upon my breast." From The Story Hunter or Tales of the Weird and Wild by Ernest Richard Suffling, 1896.

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#vintage illustration #ghost #otherworld #apparition #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – September 23, 2014

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An illustration from A Fatal Fiddle by Edward Heron Allen (1890). The caption reads: "He had seen the hand on the former occasion—there it was—wandering from shelf to shelf."

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#vintage illustration #haunted #ghost #illustration #ghost hand #library ghost #haunted library

Restoring the Lost Sense – September 20, 2014

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"'If—if you are alive,' he whispered, 'speak to me: don't look at me so—don't!'" From The Lights of Sydney; or, No Past is Dead by Lilian Turner, 1896.

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