Tag Archives: 1810’s

1909: The Seven Ravens

Posted on March 17, 2021 by corvusfugit

The good little sister took a knife and cut off her own tiny finger, fitted it into the keyhole, and succeeded in opening the lock. When she had entered, she met a Dwarf, who said: “My child, what are you … Continue reading →

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1816: The World Was about to Come to an End

Posted on July 31, 2020 by corvusfugit

In 1881, Jedediah Hubbell Dorwin published some recollections of living in Montreal based on his extensive journals and scrapbooks. The following was reprinted in many newspapers at the time: On the morning of Sunday, November 8, 1819, the sun rose … Continue reading →

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1810: A Composite Ox with a Demon Groom

Posted on March 4, 2020 by corvusfugit

A Composite Ox with a Demon Groom (Oudh, India, ca. 1810-30) (source)

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1886: Methods

Posted on April 14, 2018 by corvusfugit

The following list of terms used to express diverse modes of divination, with explanations, will be found unusually complete and may interest students of occult science. The expressions have been gathered from various sources : Aeromancy, by appearances in the … Continue reading →

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1816: The Visions of Thomas Martin

Posted on March 23, 2018 by corvusfugit

Thomas Martin was born in Gallardon, France in 1783. Beginning in 1816, he began to see visions of an elegantly dressed young man who called himself the Archangel Raphael. The youth commanded Martin to travel to Paris to see King … Continue reading →

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1813: Deception

Posted on February 20, 2018 by corvusfugit

Margaretta Angelica Peale: Painting Catalogue: A Deception (1813)

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1812: I Awoke in the Greatest Agitation

Posted on January 27, 2018 by corvusfugit

On May 11, 1812, John Bellingham, a disgruntled Liverpool merchant, assassinated British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval in the lobby of the House of Commons in London. In his autobiography, the civil engineer Sir John Rennie (whose company built the London … Continue reading →

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1815: Three Crows

Posted on December 18, 2017 by corvusfugit

Totoya Hokkei: 「三ひらの内」日輪に烏 [Three Crows against the Rising Sun] (mid 1810’s)

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1814: The Fairy Vessel Performed its Little Voyage

Posted on October 21, 2017 by corvusfugit

The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley loved paper boats: Shelley’s walks, when not determined elsewhere, often tended in the direction of a pond at no great distance from Primrose Hill, very proper for the delectable amusement of sailing paper boats; or … Continue reading →

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1815: The Affair of a Second

Posted on October 21, 2017 by corvusfugit

George Thomas Keppel, Earl of Albemarle, describes a moment during the Battle of Waterloo: We halted and formed square in the middle of the plain. As we were performing this movement, a bugler of the 51st, who had been out … Continue reading →

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