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#WyrdWednesday

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curious ordinary<p>When it comes to tales about strange things happening on a journey, this one is hard to beat. Being transformed into a human candle so he couldn't return home probably wasn't in this guy's travel plans. 🎨Toriyama Sekien <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23WyrdWednesday" target="_blank">#WyrdWednesday</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23yokai" target="_blank">#yokai</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23JapaneseFolklore" target="_blank">#JapaneseFolklore</a><span class="quote-inline"><br><br>RE: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nmcsr56ct2zzxtl6gi6vdorj/post/3lberp5ucak2a" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nmcsr56ct2zzxtl6gi6vdorj/post/3lberp5ucak2a</a></span></p>
curious ordinary<p>One of the most well-known tales in <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23JapaneseFolklore" target="_blank">#JapaneseFolklore</a> is of Urashima Taro and his journey on the back of a magical turtle to the palace of the dragon king under the sea. Unfortunately when he returned home, 300 years had passed and everyone he knew was gone. 🎨Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1882 <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23WyrdWednesday" target="_blank">#WyrdWednesday</a><span class="quote-inline"><br><br>RE: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nmcsr56ct2zzxtl6gi6vdorj/post/3ljzml7v7ck2n" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nmcsr56ct2zzxtl6gi6vdorj/post/3ljzml7v7ck2n</a></span></p>
curious ordinary<p>In Chinese mythology, Sun Wukong, also known as Monkey King, is a legendary figure and one of the main characters in the 16th century Chinese novel Journey to the West. Born from a magical stone, he possessed immense strength and supernatural abilities, including shapeshifting. <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23WyrdWednesday" target="_blank">#WyrdWednesday</a> 1/3</p>
Bevan Thomas<p>The Maritime Museum in Victoria, Canada once was the old courthouse, and it is haunted by the ghost of Judge Matthew Begbie, the “Hanging Judge.” The hauntings include plagues of vermin, appearances of an oily silver liquid, and sounds of him placing his fellow ghosts on trial.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/WyrdWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WyrdWednesday</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mythology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Folklore</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Occult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Occult</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Haunting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Haunting</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Ghost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ghost</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a></p>
Bevan Thomas<p>Doris Gravlin is the most famous ghost in British Columbia. Her misty form haunts the Victoria Golf Course, where her husband murdered her. Gravlin's presence causes rising winds and clammy coldness. It is said that any young couples she floats towards are fated to never marry.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/WyrdWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WyrdWednesday</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mythology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Folklore</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/UrbanLegend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UrbanLegend</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Ghost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ghost</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BritishColumbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BritishColumbia</span></a></p>
The Godyssey Podcast<p>Excommunication could make one a werewolf, in medieval Christian lore, a curse no one wanted because in some regions of Europe, particularly the Balkans and Greece, a werewolf had a restless spirit even in death, leading to undead werewolves. <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23WyrdWednesday" target="_blank">#WyrdWednesday</a></p>
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/WyrdWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WyrdWednesday</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/LegendaryWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LegendaryWednesday</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a>: `Michael O’Guggin from Cahir Cam was gravely ill. He had been swept from himself by a charm of the people from under the hill, and he had flown on an autumn wind across the land to their court next to Tráigh an Phéarla, Pearl Beach in English. For nigh on a full year he had been held captive amid those festive shadowy halls, before he had been brought back by famous Máire Ní Mhurchú`s cure.`<br>Here`s the whole story: <a href="https://hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/115015560789813651" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/11501</span><span class="invisible">5560789813651</span></a></p>
Bevan Thomas<p>In Welsh folklore, the Black Wyrm of the Barrow was a huge serpent who lived in a labyrinthine barrow. As a barrow is a pagan tomb, some scholars assume the Wyrm was inspired by a pagan god. It was slain by Peredur (Sir Percival), one of King Arthur's most Christian warriors.<br>🎨 Alan Lee</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/WyrdWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WyrdWednesday</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mythology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Folklore</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wales</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/KingArthur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KingArthur</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Arthurian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arthurian</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Monster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Monster</span></a></p>
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/WyrdWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WyrdWednesday</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a>: `Seven months High King <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Cormac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cormac</span></a> had gone out from Tara to search for his wife and children. He followed their path into a misty, unfamiliar land. This was the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Otherworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Otherworld</span></a>, a place of beautiful meadows, woods filled with singing birds, and flowers he’d never seen before. He encountered <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Manannan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Manannan</span></a> and Fand in a grand Dún, where he was invited to stay for the night.<br>In the Dún, Cormac was presented with the magical cup of Manannan. This cup would break when a lie was spoken and would only get whole again when a truth was told. <br>Cormac was reunited with his family. The joy of their reunion was immense, and they returned to their people, bringing with them Manannan‘s treasures: the bell-branch and the magical cup and the cloth of gold that had covered the table where they sat in the palace of Manannan.`<br><a href="https://x.com/jimfitzpatrick/status/1195320581287231491" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">x.com/jimfitzpatrick/status/11</span><span class="invisible">95320581287231491</span></a><br>Source: The Vanishing of Cormac | Emerald Isle Irish and <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a> myths, fairy tales and legends</p>
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/WyrdWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WyrdWednesday</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a>: `In no wise could the sons of Turenn direct their magic boat to the Isle of Finchory, and a quarter of a year they traversed the seaways and never could get tidings of that island. At last Brian fashioned for himself by magic art a water-dress, with a helmet of crystal, and into the depths of the sea he plunged. Here, the story tells, he searched hither and thither for a fortnight, till at last he found that island, which was an island indeed with the sea over it and around it and beneath it. There dwelt the red-haired ocean-nymphs in glittering palaces among the sea-flowers, and they wrought fair embroidery with gold and jewels, and sang, as they wrought, a fairy music like the chiming of silver bells. Three fifties of them sat or played in their great hall as Brian entered, and they gazed on him but spoke no word. Then Brian strode to the wide hearth, and without a word he seized from it a spit that was made of beaten gold, and turned again to go. But at that the laughter of the sea-maidens rippled through the hall and one of them said:<br>"Thou art a bold man, Brian, and bolder than thou knowest; for if thy two brothers were here, the weakest of us could vanquish all the three. Nevertheless, take the spit for thy daring; we had never granted it for thy prayers."<br>So Brian thanked them and bade farewell, and he rose to the surface of the water. Ere long his brethren perceived him as he shouldered the waves on the bosom of the deep, and they sailed to where he was and took him on board. And thus ended the quest for the seventh portion of the eric of Kian.` <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a><br>Source: Project Gutenberg eBook of „The High Deeds of Finn, And Other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland“ by T. W. Rolleston</p>
The Godyssey Podcast<p>For love of justice and perhaps love of Theseus, Ariadne helped the prince of Athens navigate the labyrinth and slay the Minotaur. This act freed Athens, but Ariadne was betrayed and abandoned by Theseus. Dionysus fell for her and they married. <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23WyrdWednesday" target="_blank">#WyrdWednesday</a> 🖼: E. de Morgan</p>
Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p><a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23WyrdWednesday" target="_blank">#WyrdWednesday</a> 'The Entomologist's Dream' by Edmund Dulac (1909) depicts a man looking on as a kaleidoscope of resurrected butterflies escape the pins holding them in their specimen boxes and fill the air once again 🦋</p>
The Ghost Monk<p>Final post for <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23WyrdWednesday" target="_blank">#WyrdWednesday</a>: something barmy from Boris Dolgov. (No idea where it comes from, I'm afraid, it's just one of the very many weird pics I've harvested from numerous forgotten sources over the years. Perhaps someone can tell me?). <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23weird" target="_blank">#weird</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23weirdart" target="_blank">#weirdart</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23illustration" target="_blank">#illustration</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23fantasyart" target="_blank">#fantasyart</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23insects" target="_blank">#insects</a></p>
curious ordinary<p>'Woman and Child Catching Fireflies' - Eishosai Choki, ca. 1793. <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23WyrdWednesday" target="_blank">#WyrdWednesday</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23JapaneseArt" target="_blank">#JapaneseArt</a></p>
curious ordinary<p><a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23WyrdWednesday" target="_blank">#WyrdWednesday</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23yokai" target="_blank">#yokai</a><span class="quote-inline"><br><br>RE: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nmcsr56ct2zzxtl6gi6vdorj/post/3lp53wxws6222" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nmcsr56ct2zzxtl6gi6vdorj/post/3lp53wxws6222</a></span></p>
curious ordinary<p><a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23WyrdWednesday" target="_blank">#WyrdWednesday</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23yokai" target="_blank">#yokai</a><span class="quote-inline"><br><br>RE: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nmcsr56ct2zzxtl6gi6vdorj/post/3lpyjttzq222z" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nmcsr56ct2zzxtl6gi6vdorj/post/3lpyjttzq222z</a></span></p>
curious ordinary<p>In <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23JapaneseFolklore" target="_blank">#JapaneseFolklore</a> there is a <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23yokai" target="_blank">#yokai</a> known as hone onna (bone woman). This yokai occurs when a woman dies but her love for the one she left behind in life continues. She is able to return and be with her lover from beyond the grave. To her lover she appears young and... <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23WyrdWednesday" target="_blank">#WyrdWednesday</a> 1/2</p>
curious ordinary<p><a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23WyrdWednesday" target="_blank">#WyrdWednesday</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23yokai" target="_blank">#yokai</a><span class="quote-inline"><br><br>RE: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nmcsr56ct2zzxtl6gi6vdorj/post/3l7xjozaqzc2f" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nmcsr56ct2zzxtl6gi6vdorj/post/3l7xjozaqzc2f</a></span></p>
curious ordinary<p><a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23WyrdWednesday" target="_blank">#WyrdWednesday</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23yokai" target="_blank">#yokai</a><span class="quote-inline"><br><br>RE: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nmcsr56ct2zzxtl6gi6vdorj/post/3lbb4zgqow22m" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nmcsr56ct2zzxtl6gi6vdorj/post/3lbb4zgqow22m</a></span></p>
Nifty Buckles Folklore<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WyrdWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WyrdWednesday</span></a> 🐍<br>Medusa, the cursed Gorgon of Greek lore, wields a gaze that petrifies men to stone. Once a beauty, her snake-crowned visage and tragic solitude make her a haunting guardian. Villain or victim? Her myth mesmerizes. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreekMythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreekMythology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Villains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Villains</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Medusa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medusa</span></a></p>
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