Ernest: student, aspiring failure, noncommittal goth boy, and confirmed neutral shitposter. Talents include taking lines of poetry out of context and making a mockery of the people I admire.

othmeralia:

Moss on a dead man’s skull. 

These images are from two herbal books from the 17th century. This moss was supposedly used to make “unguentum sympatheticum” (meaning, sympathetic ointment) which would be applied to the weapon that wounded instead of the actual wound.  

These are two prints seemingly from the same woodblock, printed 7 years apart; it was fairly common for printers to rent blocks to other printers. 

On the left:  Theatrum botanicum. Parkinson, 1640.

On the right:  The herball. Gerard, 1633.