From Krokodil, 1957.

An ardent (from the Latin root "to burn") collector of our books received a strangely warm package in the mail.  He said that by the time he dropped it, "the package had gotten really hot and sort of burst open on its own and was emitting a bright creepy light."  Indeed, this is not unheard of when How to Believe in Your Elf, Magic Archetypes: The Art Behind The Science Of Conjuring, and Puzzling Portmeirion: An Unconventional Guide to a Curious Destination come into close contact and are also inverted (the collector lives Down Under, you see, where everything is upside-down).  "I was guessing that there are either some pretty powerful secrets in Magic Archetypes," the collector wrote, "or perhaps these sinister books of yours really are forbidden in Australia."

You've heard of streets paved with gold, but there are also bridges supported by gold girders.  From Lustige Blätter, 1915.

The light of prophecy, from Rightly Dividing the Word by Clarence Larkin, 1921.

From Le Rire, 1910.

"He said farewell to the sky country and let himself down to earth—by one of his own strands of yarn."  From Canadian Fairy Tales by Cyrus MacMillan, 1922.

From Jugend, 1929.

"Fog-bow among the mountains."  From The Dew-Drop and the Mist by Charles Tomlinson, 1847.

"Pulled a feather out of farmer Weatherbeard's head."  From Fairy Tales from the Far North by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, 1897.

From Jugend, 1907.

From Kladderadatsch, 1931.

"With the Blue above, and the Blue below."  From Quips and Cranks by Thomas Hood, 1861.