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Vintage Halloween Skeleton Pictures

Death doing a jig. The old engravers drew skeletons as cheerful company, fiddle and drum among the gravestones.

Memento Mori — vintage halloween skeleton pictures

Memento Mori

A grinning skeleton tips his hat beneath the harvest moon — death doing a jig among the tombstones.

c. 1920s lithograph

The Churchyard Band — vintage halloween skeleton pictures

The Churchyard Band

Fiddle and drum among the gravestones — the danse macabre as the old engravers drew it.

c. 1900 book plate

Dance on the Hill — vintage halloween skeleton pictures

Dance on the Hill

Four skeletons in top hats caper along a moonlit ridge — the season's oldest joke about mortality.

c. 1930 lithograph

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