Colorful Allusions
Though printed in black and white, great literature is bursting with vibrant colour. In these rebus-style puzzles, color words and parts of words have been replaced with colored boxes. Try to guess the exact hue of each. Roll your mouse over the colored boxes to reveal the missing words. Click the colored boxes to learn more about each hue. Special thanks to Paul Dean for his colorful research. |








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Here's a marvelous explanation of the Irish "seven devils" as speculative superstition refracted by a mental prism into differently colored devils across the nations of the earth. From Holland-Tide or Irish Popular Tales by Gerald Griffin, 1927. Favorite phrases: "If one were disposed to be fancifully metaphysical upon the subject ..." -- yes, one would be so disposed! Ireland as a "step-daughter" island. And the zinger: "But what has this to do with the story? In order to answer that question, the story must be told."
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