Bees, Death & Honey
The business of bees and the sweetness of honey don’t suggest their connection to death in the first instance but it doesn’t take much exploring to find out how close…
The Beans of Death
How do you feel about Pythagoras’s theorem? I always insist that it is annoying knowledge which is taking up a slot I could use for something else so I was…
Between Bones and the Harvest
If you spend your weekend considering bones and harvests, there is really only one logical place your thoughts can end and that’s with Death. Death with a capital D, like…
Proserpina & The Fruit of Death
Proserpina - Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1874 In classical myth Proserpine was kidnapped by Pluto, the god of the underworld, to be his wife. Eating food from the underworld would…
A Little Lore: Rosemary
As a symbol, rosemary was particularly important in the remembrance of a life, consider Hamlet’s Ophelia: ‘Rosemary, that’s for remembrance, pray love, remember.’ It was seen as a purifying herb…