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My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts) Mon Apr 20, 2015, 08:58 AM Apr 2015

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To Die with a Thraw

From the Scottish “Deith-thraw”. Contortions of death are regarded by the uneducated with superstitious horror. To die with a thraw, a look of pain, is indication of a bad conscience, or having led an ill life. If a person was secretly murdered, careful observation of the corpse would find the thraw reversing itself and the visage of the corpse would denounce the perpetrators of the crime.

(Pictured: Girl with Death Mask. She Plays Alone, 1938. Frida Kahlo)

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To Die with a Thraw (Original Post) My Good Babushka Apr 2015 OP

Gives a whole new meaning to "I tawt I thraw a puddy tat" pinboy3niner Apr 2015 #1

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1. Gives a whole new meaning to "I tawt I thraw a puddy tat"

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Mon Apr 20, 2015, 09:34 AM

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