#tear catchers

[marzipanandminutiae]

they’re just perfume vials guys

ancient Romans: the kings of Persia make their wives and concubines collect the tears they weep while said king is away in fancy vials, to prove how much they missed him!

Victorians: ancient Roman widows collected their tears in fancy vials, to put in their late husbands’ tombs!

modern antiques dealers: Victorians collected their tears in fancy vials after a loved one died, as part of their Bizarre Obsessive Goth Mourning Process!

literally no culture in known history: has been currently proven to have done this on a wide scale, for any reason

[miscellaneousvintageobjects]

🧐 De-bunking the myth!

🧐 Victorian Tear Catchers

🧐 The myth...

The Victorians were experts in the art of mourning.

They wore black for extended periods, wove human hair into elaborate wreaths, and wept it is said, into delicate glass bottles called “tear catchers.”

🧐 Victorian ephemera is popular these days, as is their fascination with death, so mourning artifacts are in high demand.

Vintage tear catchers, also called “lachrymatory bottles,” and can be found in online auctions and marketplaces, as well as through estate sales and antique stores.

🧐 During the 19th century, and especially in America during and after the Civil War, tear catchers were used as a measure of grieving time.

Once the tears cried into them had evaporated, the mourning period was over.

It’s a beautiful idea, but no one really cried into the bottles.....

🧐 The fact.

In truth, both science and history agree that there’s really no such thing as a tear catcher.

The bottles most people like to collect are usually clear blown glass, decorated with patterns, gilding, and colorful enamel.

These are simply nothing more, than Victorian throwaway perfume bottles!

But the “tear catcher” term has stuck, through a combination of historical romantical accident, and deceptive, yet effective, marketing.

🧐 The myth likely began with archaeologists.

Small glass bottles were often found in tombs, and early scholars romantically labelled them lachrymatories or tear bottles.

Those glass bottles held perfume and unguents, not tears.

Scientists have performed chemical tests on these flasks and they disproved the romantic 'tear' theory.

🧐 The true uses of the decorative bottles, are rarely disclosed, as collectors are still obsessed with Victorian mourning paraphernalia, and many customers don’t want to believe that they are simply perfume bottles.

While some sellers of these very pretty objects are honest, and sell them in the perfume section of their shops, others are not so trustworthy.

🧐 The Internet is, in a lot of ways, to blame.

Theoretically, the internet is its own folklore-creating machine.

If data gets shared enough times, it is considered true, and that can be said for lots of things!........

https://www.facebook.com/groups/537859523834021

🧐 Sources~Wiki/AtlasObscura

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Source: Facebook

[sarahtorribio-blog]

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[wildbeautifuldamned]

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[sagradofemenin0]

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[imyoursoftfuzzymann]

holds and phoeb doodle

[nikov]

THINGS WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.

it's not summer without you, jenny han / kingdom without borders, miriam adeney / the catcher in the rye, j.d. salinger / before i fall, lauren oliver / the last little blue envelope, maureen johnson / night train to lisbon, pascal mercier / my tears ricochet, taylor swift / flipped, wendelin van draanen / lewis carroll / men without women, haruki murakami

[bbluejoseph]

god. tear in my heart right after air catcher. Huge differences in lyrics, tone, and hope. im glad tyler decided to give falling a shot

[bartskull]

listening to fall out boy and doing this every 2 minutes

[tweedstoat]

Helaena’s story was incredibly tragic but also we were ROBBED. She shouldve been out there committing war crimes in the riverlands. Shes a dragon-rider on one of the older dragons and she just...spends the dance not riding her dragon....After some of the worst crimes of the dance are done to her children????

[chaotic-multi-fandom]

rip Holden Caulfield, you would've loved my tears ricochet by Taylor Swift

[honepiii]

Growing up is realizing Holden from Catcher In The Rye wasn’t being annoying, he was being fucking DEPRESSED.

Im so sorry Holden Caulfield for hating you a big majority of my high school years, I shouldn’t have judged you so quickly

[caprish-capei]

the urge to drop everything and go live in the mountains with a little cottage and lake. read your books and hike around. the urge to imagine the most magical stories in forests and become an author, the catcher of tales.

[lesben]

tbh i love that this website has big posts just filled with cool sounding lies. 'this mystical object was historically passed down for generations to bring good fortune' and it's just a fancy doorknob or something. misinformation site <3

[wildbeautifuldamned]

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