Punch,  47 (1864), 7.

Punch's Notes and Queries: A Shameless Piracy Upon Our Honoured and Inestimable Friend N. and Q.

Anon

Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Supernaturalism, Spiritualism, Animal Behaviour, Superstition, Gender


    Written in the style of Notes and Queries, this article includes spoof letters from 'Spirit-Rapper' enquiring about a note in a copy of Lytton 1842, and Dominie Sampson, who wants to know whether women express a superstitious animosity towards spiders, which would explain his wife's habit of clearing away the webs of that 'industrious and indefatigable animal'.



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