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MarjoleinRotsteeg, to poetry Dutch
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thegiddystitcher, to lemmy_stitch
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Is it too late to be posting spooky stuff?

This took me like a week to stitch, another week for my fingers to heal up, and then I went and forgot to post it 😭

My first ever hand embroidery piece. Not too shabby, I reckon! Good tree 😁

My official last project for the extended . Roll on the next one!

Pattern is https://www.etsy.com/listing/1554526317/pdf-pattern-spooky-cabin-step-by-step

@lemmy_stitch

Closeup of the tree and the ghost, both made with raised puff stitches that give the piece a pleasing texture

ablueboxfullofbooks, to bookstodon
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If you are looking for a fast spooky read, this book is the one ! This anthology is full of (very) short stories, with a very dark humor as a connection. The theme of the learned lesson is found throughout all the stories.

#anthology #spooky #spookyreads #shortstory #halloween #book #bookstagram #booktok #horror #horrorreads #littlefreelibrary #littlefreelibrariesofinstagram #bookdrop #bookstodon @bookstodon

MarjoleinRotsteeg, to poetry Dutch
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AndyPaciorekArt, to bookstodon
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Bedtime reading... 💀🎃📚

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CitizenWald, to random
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Things October 31 is besides : Day, celebrating the date in 1517 when Martin nailed his 95 theses to a church door in Wittenberg--or did he?
Modern scholarship long tended to dismiss the episode as fictional, citing lack of contemporary evidence. 1/n

CitizenWald,
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CitizenWald,
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CitizenWald,
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Things October 31 is besides #Halloween: #Reformation Day, celebrating the date in 1517 when Martin #Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door in Wittenberg--or did he?

n contrast to Oberman, Richard Marius, in Martin Luther: The Christian Between God & Death (1999), explains the nature of the historical controversy over the truth of the tradition that Luther posted the 95 Theses OTD 1517. #ReformationDay 4/8

4/n

...For many years it was supposed that someone copied the theses off the door, translated them from atin into German, and had them reprinted so that they flew over Germany and made Luther a hero overnight. Certainly the theses were quickly translated and circulated and Luther suddenly was propelled into fame. But in 1961 a German Catholic scholar, Erwin Iserloh, raised a question: Were the theses posted? In the current mood of Catholic ecumenicity, Iserloh was sympathetic to Luther. But he consid- red these facts. Nowhere in his table talk in later years did Luther speak of posting the Ninety-five Theses on the church door. In none of his own works reviewing the beginning of the controversy does he mention any public posting. He recalled that he preached to his people about grace and remission fo sins against the shallow proclamations of the indulgence sellers, and he seems to have discussed the matter in private with associates and to have sent copies of the theses to learned friends. But none of this resembles a public act of hammering the theses onto a church door and calling for a disputation. Iserloh holds that the story of the nailing of the theses to the church door comes from the pen of Philipp Melanchthon, who wrote a short summary of Luther’s life a few months after Luther died. Melanchthon (1497-1 560) was a professor of Greek, with a mind much more orderly (and commonplace) than Luther’s, and one of Luther’s closest colleagues. He was to become

CitizenWald,
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Things October 31 is besides #Halloween: #Reformation Day, celebrating the date in 1517 when Martin #Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door in Wittenberg--or did he?

Then, in 2006, a new archival find of a contemporaneous reference seemed to lend credence to the story of the nailing of the 95 Theses to the church door OTD 1517--tho perhaps not by Luther himself (feature film 1953; docu 2008)

https://www.ekd.de/Martin-Luther-Thesenanschlag-14255.htm

http://www.lutherbase.de/aspects.html#WittenbergSchlosskirche/FilmclipLegendeThesenanschlag

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scene from 2008 documentary

CitizenWald,
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Things October 31 is besides #Halloween: #Reformation Day, celebrating the date in 1517 when Martin #Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door in Wittenberg--or did he?

Since then, the pendulum on the nailing of the 95 theses to the church door OTD 1517 has swung back & forth.
Here, a Tübingen theologian & church historian dismisses it as a legend reflecting the Protestant need for symbols of the faith (2016)
https://n-tv.de/panorama/Luthers-Thesenanschlag-ist-eine-Legende-article18937366.html 6/n

CitizenWald,
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Things October 31 is besides : Day, celebrating the date in 1517 when Martin nailed his 95 theses to a church door in Wittenberg--or did he?

In 2018, 2 historians from the historical Luther sites set forth the case for the authenticity of the tradition that he nailed the 95 theses to the church door OTD 1517:

Luthers Thesenanschlag laut Historikern mehr als bloss Legende https://ref.ch/news/luthers-thesenanschlag-laut-historikern-mehr-als-bloss-legende/ 7/n

CitizenWald,
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AskHistorians, to histodons
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Boo-lieve it or not, we can’t forget haunted houses! @mimicofmodes gets gothic when they answer “How did the Victorian period become so ubiquitous with horror/haunted houses?” @histodons
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/bij26k/how_did_the_victorian_period_become_so_ubiquitous/em6lfag/

novetus, to archaeodons German
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Happy #Halloween, holiday of #bioarchaeologist s with one of our all-time favourite objects, an 18th century #rosary bead carved from bone

#archaeology @archaeodons

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It ghosts without saying that /u/thejukeboxhero writes some amazing posts. Check out this one on how ghosts became associated with floating white sheets! @histodons
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6s91la/how_did_ghosts_become_associated_by_white_sheets/dlea92h/

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Delve into an iconic part of and /u/itsallfolklore will tell you all about the origin of Jack o’ lanterns and turnip carving! @histodons
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/74j6b4/the_origins_of_pumpkin_turnip_carving/dnyuszx/

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Brace yourself @histodons. For as the light fade’s tonight, /u/hannahstohelit tells the spooky story of… The Golem of Prague!
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/b5pn11/tuesday_trivia_monsters_this_thread_has_relaxed/ejfkspd/

thevglibrary, to bookstodon
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tabbyjones, to bookstodon
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Are you looking to stay in this ? If you want something spooky and thrilling to read on the creepiest night of the year, why not try these underrated mysteries? If it's for Halloween or any time of the year, you won't be disappointed with these reads! 🍂🍁☠🎃

https://cupofteawiththatbookplease.com/2023/10/30/20-underrated-mysteries-that-are-worth-trying/

@bookstodon

AskHistorians, to histodons
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In popular culture, Central-Eastern Europe is particularly associated with stories of Vampires and Werewolves. Was this the case pre-Dracula?
(Sink your teeth into this spooky post from /u/abutthole!) @histodons
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ac61ro/in_popular_culture_centraleastern_europe_is/ed63kq6/

jblue, to plants
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Happy Halloween! 🎃👻

Spider berry update, Campanumoea lancifolia:

No ripe berries for Halloween. Alas. I saw spotted cucumber beetle on it yesterday and squished it. Also squished a tree cricket. A couple of unripe berries were slightly nibbled and discarded (probably cricket). I tried a green one and it tastes like baby peas. Not bad. Hopefully ripe berries are better.

#gardening #jardin #jardineria #fruit #arachtober #Halloween #Spider #spiders @plants #plantas #permaculture

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Wraithe, to random
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Well the #pumpkins are all set for #Halloween2023
Here’s hoping we get more than 3 kids this year!
(Our record so far is I think (edited: it’s 40, set in 2018) - it’s few enough that we can COUNT them 😂)

Wraithe,
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We may be the only house on our street doing #Halloween but at least it’s clear we were open for business 😂

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