#WoodcutWednesday

Woodcuts from early printed books, posted on Twitter every Wednesday from 2012, with a caption apiece.

Moses’ mistranslation of “cornua” had hilarious consequences.

Friar Bill, to no avail, pleads with Cardinal Dennis to turn off his cellphone while in Church.

With Bill and Dennis distracted, Father Tim engages in his own shenanigans.

Consequently, all miss the uproarious #BiblicalSitcom episode "Joseph and his hat."

Suicidally depressed Clyde started the rumor that unicorn horns cured plague as a way out.

Maxwell, Disapproving Rabbit, disapproves:

Grumpy Cat is a Timelord.

Hypsteyre Christ is so over this Last Judgment thing.

To everyone's Judgement-Day delight, Phoebe popped from her grave shouting, "I'm back, bitches!"

Blair gave Ken this deathbed happy ending. -Handcolorist: you're doing it wrong.

Everyone disapproved of Blanche's deathbed attire. That party was cancelled due to illness.

…Yet no one batted an eye when God and Son made the same mistake.

In Paradise, Angels crapped on birds.

Fish Geyser! -Fish mountain? Plant? WTF?

Despair took hold when Maurice understood Death came in the form of a baby stomping one's head.

I really shouldn't have worked on that #WoodcutWednesday meme post. Now all I can see here is a Grumpy Shield.

Three Cantankerous Wolves glaring at the moon.

Sixteenth century

STC 791’s Meme Menagerie looks pretty good.

From: The book intytuled The art of good lywyng [and] good deyng
Printed: 1503
Image from: Early English Books Online (STC 791)

Sixteenth century

But STC 792's Meme Menagerie is ridiculous. Simba? #DepressedUnicorn is still depressed.

From: The crafte to lyue well and to dye well
Printed: London: Wynkyn de Worde, 1505
Image from: Early English Books Online (STC 792)

Mildred was upset when Wyatt didn't match his profile pic, but the real problems started later.

Ever the sexual deviant, Petrarch started the "vomiting on naked, bathing women" craze of 1356.

Hoping to behold Laura nude, Francesco invents an ingenious yet ineffective form of camouflage.

As one English translation puts it, "For to getten blayzed: take i unce to the fyre & ynhale."

Culinarily inexperienced Gil was unaware one stuffed poultry only after it was killed.