Eaten Collection (page 2)

Bulldog eats child
Addled Ads, Wanted section. " Bulldog for sale. Will eat anything - very fond of children." A maid looking alarmed as a bulldog has eaten a child in her care. Date: circa 1910s

Pinocchio Nearly Eaten

Macaroni, Napoli
Selling macaroni in the streets of Naples - note that it seems to be eaten with the fingers ! Date: circa 1880

Goldilocks / Fairy Tales
The three bears at the table where they discover their porridge has been eaten. Traditional tale originally worked on by Robert Southey

Goldilocks / Fairy Book
The three bears discover that their porridge has been eaten. Traditional tale originally worked on by Robert Southey

Becfola climbs a tree to escape a pack of wolves
A lady takes to the trees to avoid being eaten by wolves - an episode from the Story of Beefola. Date: Medieval

Destruction of Kaleya - a four-armed Hindu God destroys a monstrous many-headed snake (Naga) - which is in the process of consuming two women whilst suspended over a river

Lear / Nonsense / Rabbits
There was an Old Person whose habits, induced him to feed upon rabbits; When he d eaten eighteen, he turned perfectly green, upon which he relinquished those habits

Croc(k)ed! by William Heath Robinson
Pictorial proof that - an Englishman never knows when he is eaten. A man waving his trousers for help from inside a crocodile which has eaten him

The Nymph & the Sun God
A nymph complains to Helios (the Sun God) that Odysseus (Ulysses) and his men have sacrifed and and eaten her cattle without permission

The Wolf & the Lamb
THE WOLF AND THE LAMB A young inexperienced lamb is tricked by a hungry wolf and eaten

Man Eaten by Crocodile
THE TENTYRITES AND THE ICHNEUMON A huge crocodile seizes a man in its jaws on the island of Tentyra

The Sick Lion & the Fox
THE SICK LION AND THE FOX The king of beasts, sick in his cave, commands that all animals must visit; he promises safety but the fox stays away knowing otherwise

Ascalaphius into Owl
A son of Acheron, he reveals to Zeus that Persephone has eaten pomegranate seeds (thus condemning her to stay with Hades) so she turns him into an owl with Phlegethon water

Anti-German (Poulbot)
- He must have eaten a German

Moth-Eaten Fur 1960S
An elderly lady in a straw toque hat, pearls & a moth- eaten fox fur stole shelters beneath an umbrella

Livestock for Ukraine
The people of Uzbekhistan donate livestock to farmers of the Ukraine, liberated from German occupation but with all their animals eaten or taken by the Germans

Two eggs on an Easter greetings card
An egg in an egg cup, with its top taken off, and a second egg waiting to be eaten when the first ones finished, on this German Easter greetings card

Cannibalism of North America
Franciscans eaten by the Caribs of North America

Sandwich / John Montagu
JOHN MONTAGU 4th EARL of SANDWICH Statesman attributed with the invention of the sandwich (1762) to be eaten at the gaming table

Myth / Tibet / Frog & Crow
THE FROG AND THE CROW While sitting on the gutter, the frog talks his way out of being eaten by the crow

Death Watch Beetle
The caretaker of St. Davids Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, Wales, holding a section of the cathedrals woodwork, badly eaten away by the Death Watch Beetle. Date: 1930s

Adam and Eve Banished
Adam and Eve, having eaten the Forbidden Fruit, are expelled from Eden and told they must henceforward work for their living by the sweat of their brows

Akouchi (Bewick)
The Akouchi seems to be a variety of the agouti, Bewick says. It lives in South America - that is, until it is hunted, caught and eaten

Bears / Porridge Stolen
The three bears discover that Goldilocks has eaten their porridge - the rapscallion will soon be found asleep in their bed

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