Although no pictures of it are available, apparently a fully working replica with live leeches exists at Barometer World in Devon.
The Tempest Prognosticator, or Leech Barometer as it is sometimes known, is athing of great beauty and strangeness. Here are two examples of imaginations that have been fired by this odd construction.
Honeypear is a cartoonist from Glasgow. This is her homage to Dr Merryweather.
(Click on the image to see the full cartoon)
Here are some Japanese youths in a car park dancing to If The Rock Don't Get You The Heavy Metal Will by a band called The Tempest Prognosticators.
7 comments:
The awful thing about the Whitby Museum replica is that there appear to be dead, dried-up leeches in it. Eeeeeeuuuuuuw. Poor things.
I think the ones in Whitby Museum are models of leeches, aren't they?
Hmmmm. I guess they could be. I'll have to go have another look.
They look a bit like mouldy figs.
Aha. The plot thickens.
I think Judy should be nominated to go and investigate these controversial leeches, and report back to OUT ON YE! with her findings.
Well, I might well do that. I might well go armed with a camera, even though cameras are banned in the museum.
But I can be fearless, if fearless is required, in the quest for truth on behalf of Out on Ye. And justice for leeches of course. Or, indeed, figs.
However, I will have to remember to go up there. That is the hard bit.
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