onion-souls:

tilthat:

TIL that the Count in Sesame Street does not count all the time to teach children numbers! In folklore, vampires had arithmomania, or an obsession with numbers. This derives from the old superstition that throwing poppy seeds on the ground stopped vampires because they had to count them all first.

via reddit.com

I like the poster’s implication that the producers of Sesame Street did not put a counting vampiric count on a children’s educational series to teach kids how to count; this was just an incidental side effect of their fidelity to obscure vampire folklore.

copperbadge:

librarian-amy:

copperbadge:

rionsanura:

fibroandme:

@horriblytasty

@copperbadge

THANKS I HATE IT.

Actually I kind of like it because it’s clearly not meant to be eaten, which means it’s ART and I love the statement it makes about contemporary attitudes towards aspic! 

[Description: A clear aspic mold displaying a number of sets of false teeth inside it. Oh god. The horror.]

Good news, Sam! Those are jello dentures! It’s E D I B L E

WAS IT NECESSARY TO RUIN MY ILLUSIONS?