Bad Bungle
Tutti but not Frutti.
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Sounds pretty horrific. Did they pluck out someone's eyes to do that?Scientists showed that a similar effect could be achieved by two eyeballs nailed to a stick.
Did they pluck out someone's eyes to do that?
I like the half dolls used for pincushions and things to hide loo roll!
I'd feel sorry for the dollies whose duty it was to guard toilet rolls when they could be out having fun with my toys instead.
Love that. Black cat, too! I wrote a piece last year about a tiny wooden doll that one of the children in the Donner Party had with her. And the child mangaed to keep the doll (a dolls' house one, so very tiny) hidden in her clothing, the whole way through the ordeal - it was never firewood and was kept long after the other toys abandoned in the desert on the ill-fated journey. Kinda Fortean, I guess. Will be out in a US magazine re. historical crafts, some time later this year. Have seen the pedlar dolls but never this fortune teller. Red cloaks were the sign of countrywomen in the 18thC and 19thC.Never really been one for dolls, I had a family of toy mice living in my dolls house as a child, the size made more sense to me! Having said that, last month I bought this amazing early Victorian fortune telling doll, so I thought she would be quite apt to post! As creepy as you like and with a slight Fortean leaning. You lift up her skirts and choose one of the folded pieces of paper to decide your fortune!
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(photos pinched from Mr Rabbit).