"Siegfried, the dragon-killer," from The Rhine: Legends, Traditions, History, from Cologne to Mainz by Joseph Snowe, 1839.

From Old Boston Taverns and Tavern Clubs, 1917.

We presume this is what happened to the previous poacher.  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1877.

Though they begin life as elders, grandfather clocks still experience a growth cycle.  Here's an embryonic grandfather clock from Vizetelly's Sixpenny Series of Amusing Books, 1885.  The caption reads, "Sneaking a grandfather's clock."

From The Demon McGuire, 1885.  Did you know that the idea of a frightening, disembodied giant foot traces back to the very first gothic novel, Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764)?

"We are coming!  Clear the track!"  From Anecdotal Lincoln by Paul Selby, 1900.

"There's always something real in what happens, no avoiding that." —César Aira (as translated by Katherine Silver), The Literary Conference

"Curing everything," an illustration from Handley Cross; or, Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt by Robert Smith Surtees, 1892.

From the Milady in Brown yearbook of Belmont College, 1908.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

Here's a giantess from Elsass-Lothringen by Christlieb Gotthold Hottinger, 1885.

From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, 1892.

An inkblot personified, from an ad in The Lanthorn yearbook of Susquehanna University, 1917.  See our Inkblot Oracle at https://www.oneletterwords.com/inkblot/, as well as How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

From the Colonial Echo yearbook of the College of William and Mary, 1899.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

From The Demon McGuire, 1885.

From The Year's At the Spring: An Anthology of Recent Poetry, 1920

"The continuous roaring showed that the lions were still close at hand."  From The Young Colonists by George Alfred Henty, 1898.