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…
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…