Carla Valentine

Carla Valentine Instagram – My ‘Bloody Valentine’ countdown continues with this perfect artefact! 🫀 This is a dessicated (dried) human heart in a heart shaped lead case, called a ‘cist’, which was found in a wooden box in Christchurch, Cork, Ireland, in 1863. The person who found it was General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers of ‘Pitt Rivers Museum’ which is in Oxford in the UK, but it was originally sent to Bethan Green Museum in London as the centre-piece of their “Human Superstition” exhibition.
(I’m not sure why it’s ok to remove a boxed artefact in the basement of Cork’s oldest Church, so some say “found” also means “stole” and I guess but that’s a debate for another time.) Heart burials were popular in Europe for a while because the heart was where the soul was believed to reside, so often if the body had to be disposed of the heart would be kept. Sometimes if lovers died apart their hearts were brought together and buried in the same place. Awwww, romantic 🫀⚰️🫀
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