It's been a year since my last tweet, before the X came! I've had quite a turbulent year, but now all seems to be smooth sailing. I am still making books and organising conferences as well as working in a library which I absolutely love ! Hope you are all ok out there !
The content of the book contains details of the Red Barn Murder and court case. Corder was executed after being found guilty and his body was anatomised. The surgeon then bound his own copy of the published events of this case. A cursed object of ever I saw one !
Anthropodermic bibliopegy... I thought human skin bound books just existed in fiction ! Apologies for the grim post, but it was too fascinating not to share.
The inscription inside reads; 'The binding of this book is the skin of the murderer William Corder taken from his body and tanned by myself in the year 1828. George Creed, surgeon to the Suffolk Hospital'
Want something a bit different for Valentine's Day? Find out what strips of corpse skin, tomb dust, and putting your shoes in the shape of a 'T' have to do with love in this blog post and podcast episode! https://t.co/AnJfHyYMtk #FabulousFolklorePodcast#ValentinesDay
@RobGMacfarlane me and my husband with our own at the top of the Worcestershire Beacon on the Malvern Hills 2018. Only a phone camera with me, but a very special moment.
Well this weekend was rather wonderful it was so lovely to meet the @WomenOfMagick community in person after many many months of zoom events. Each person made the whole day a joyous occasion.
@MharaStarling I was speaking in the other room at the same time as you, I am sure you did wonderfully ! It was hot in there by the end of the day! Well done and I hope I'll get to catch one of your talks another time !
A charity shop find today Folklore of Prehistoric Sites in Britain by Leslie V. Grinsell (1976) and in all of these kinds of books I have collected over the years, I've never seen a table of stones and their supposed movements ! #folklore#stones#prehistory#books
@MermaidsDrown Thank you! I couldn't agree more, and in trying to balance my intake of catastrophe and all of the above, I've also lacked connecting to people like your good self and missing out on the creative wonderful gems of things to be found on here !
How is everyone doing in the twitterverse? Over recent months I've found it hard to engage with social media, though work is bringing me a lot of joy and I am speaking at a conference this weekend. How is everyone, really ? 💚