winding-cloths

Updated: May 26, 2025

I took dark winding-cloths and bound them about my head, covering the hair and forehead, all the while watching the effect produced in the mirror. The result was somewhat striking, it is true, but not of the agreeable style. I unbound my frontlet, taking off the black phylactery, whose memorable sentence, written in white letters, had been visible to myself alone.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862