Reposted by seigneurThe Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 17/11/202519th-century drugstore ad in verse, from a “commercial rhymist”. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/r… 0237
Reposted by seigneurcurious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 11/09/2025In Japanese mythology, Izanagi and Izanami are primordial deities said to have created the islands of Japan. They undertook a sacred wedding but soon after, Izanami died giving birth to the god of fire, Kagutsuchi. She retreated to yomi, land of the dead. Izanagi wanted to... 1/3 #FolkloreThursday 17718
Reposted by seigneurThe Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 16/09/2025From fairy-rings to Lewis Carroll's Alice, mushrooms have long been entwined with the supernatural in art + literature. @MikeJayNet on early reports of mushroom-induced trips and how one species became established as a stock motif of Victorian fairyland. publicdomainreview.org/essay/f... 16420
Reposted by seigneurThe Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Fifteenth-century handwriting as seen in The History of Ink (1860), a book including beautiful samples of penmanship from 1500 BC to 1834 AD: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t… 05610
Reposted by seigneurThe Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 02/09/2025One of a set of 32 astronomical star-chart cards known as Urania’s Mirror or a View of the Heavens published in around 1825. Each card is pierced with holes corresponding in size to the magnitudes of the brightest stars. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/u... 06316