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"The Rats in the Walls" is loosely connected to Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos stories; toward the end, the narrator notes that the rats seem "determined to lead me on even unto those grinning caverns of earth's centre where Nyarlathotep, the mad faceless god, howls blindly to the piping of two amorphous idiot flute-players."
Dried cats and rats from the Stag Inn, All Saints Street, Hastings In some European cultures it was customary to place the dried or desiccated body of a cat inside the walls of a newly built home to ward off evil spirits or as a good luck charm.
The Bal du Rat mort ("Ball of the Dead Rat") [1] is an annual masquerade ball held in Ostend, Belgium in the Kursaal, Ostend casino. [2] The event was first held in 1898. [ 3 ]
The "Rats Dungeon", or "Dungeon of the Rats", was a feature of the Tower of London alleged by Catholic writers from the Elizabethan era. "A cell below high-water mark and totally dark" would draw in rats from the River Thames as the tide flowed in. Prisoners would have their "alarm excited" and in some instances, have "flesh ... torn from the arms and legs".
Le Rat Mort ("The Dead Rat") was a popular cafe/restaurant and cabaret in Paris in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Located in the Place Pigalle in the Montmartre District, it was frequented by artists, writers, actors, artist models, and prostitutes, and was a gathering place for lesbians in the evenings.
The rat is dead. Waving a dead rat by the tail is fun for the person waving the rat, but it may not be fun for anyone else in the vicinity. Rodents are social animals. Where there is one rat, there are more. The dead rat says nothing about the number of remaining rats. (Of course not. Dead rats can't talk.) A dead rat only means that the ...
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The yearly philanthropic "Bal du Rat mort" (Dead Rat Ball) in Ostend continues a tradition begun by Ensor and his friends in 1898. In the movie Halloween (1978), a poster of one of Ensor's self-portraits appears on the wall of a room in Laurie Strode's (Jamie Lee Curtis) home.