I had heard about the fool's finger elsewhere online, and I remember smiling in recognition when I read it in your book. It has made me not put rings on that finger at faires, and I am trying to get my friends to do the same, but most continue to do so.
By your comment of Mary QoS, I went and googled for Mary's image, and found Marilee Cody's site that has almost all of her images and related images. http://www.marileecody.com/maryqosimages.html If there is one of Mary QoS wearing a ring on her middle finger, I could not find it. I did find one of her posed with a ring about to be placed on the ring finger of her right hand. http://www.marileecody.com/maryqos/maryring.jpg Otherwise, I note that most of her images she is wearing no rings. Maybe it is the one or two not on her site at this time? btw, that one image above by one artist, the dress she is wearing is repeated in this next image of Mary QoS, same hair style, too. http://www.marileecody.com/maryqos/maryqosclouetdark.jpg Makes me wonder which was the original painting. And years ago I had wanted to recreate the gown, although I think beading all those tri-clusters of pearls would drive me batty! Kimiko --- On Wed, 6/17/09, Maggie <[email protected]> wrote: > I know of one full length portrait of > Mary Queen of Scots, and I believe > I've seen a couple other examples (possibly German), but > they're way > out-numbered. According the author of the book I mentioned, > the middle > finger "is for fools", but he doesn't really say much else > about it. > Although he does say a similar habit prevailed among the > ancient Greeks and > Romans and contemporary (1917) Hindus. > > This tidbit is included in The Compendium, by the way. ;-) > > MaggiRos _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
