Stories
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Eels and feels
For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual.
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Divining the world through an artist’s almanac
Amanda Couch's artists book, 'Huwawa in the Everyday: an almanac' is inspired by the entrail like folds of a medieval folding and its function as a guide for astrological divinations linking the body, health and the heavens. Like the original almanac her work is designed to be carried out into the wider world.
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Why zombies can’t help coming back
Although it might appear that zombies are a 20th-century phenomenon, created for the horror-movie industry, they’ve actually been around since medieval times. Find out what zombies like to do, and how to get rid of them.
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The first seizure
Historian Aparna Nair had her first seizure when she was 11. Here she recalls that first time, and how other people’s reactions are sometimes the most disturbing part about having a seizure.
Catalogue
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Omens and superstitions of southern India / by Edgar Thurston.
Thurston, Edgar, 1855-1935.Date: 1912- Books
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The old Egyptian fortune-teller's last legacy: containing, I. The wheel of fortune by pricking with a pin. ... VII. Omens of good and bad luck.
Date: [1775?]- Books
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The old Egyptian fortune-teller's last legacy: containing I. The wheel of fortune by the dice. II. The wheel of fortune by pricking with a pin. III. The signification of moles. IV. The art of palmestry. V. The interpretation of dreams. VI. The art of physognomy; wih the signification of lines in the face. VI. Omens of good and bad luck, &c.
Date: [1725?]- Books
Marey and d'Arsonval : the exact sciences in late nineteenth-century French medicine / Merriley Borell.
Borell, Merriley (Merriley Elaine)Date: 1987- Books
Babylonian planetary omens / by Erica Reiner ; in collaboration with David Pingree.
Date: 1975-