#phantomsfriday — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #phantomsfriday, aggregated by home.social.
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There are some inns inhabited by phantoms - and some inns themselves are phantoms.
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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Night_Hunt_near_Wolfratshausen -
There are some inns inhabited by phantoms - and some inns themselves are phantoms.
#PhantomsFriday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Night_Hunt_near_Wolfratshausen -
'The Spookissimus' is here to remind everyone about #SpookySunday, the new feed for posts on all things ghost (replacing #PhantomsFriday, which has been cast into the Outer Darkness). Ghost-related words, art, haunted sites, #folklore, popular culture will all be reposted: @[email protected]
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'The Spookissimus' is here to remind everyone about #SpookySunday, the new feed for posts on all things ghost (replacing #PhantomsFriday, which has been cast into the Outer Darkness). Ghost-related words, art, haunted sites, #folklore, popular culture will all be reposted: @[email protected]
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Modern vampire lore will tell you that you should use a stake to dispatch of a vampire.
But German folklore tells us that a peat spade will do in a pinch.
#PhantomsFriday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Unh%C3%AEr_in_Trzebiatkow -
Modern vampire lore will tell you that you should use a stake to dispatch of a vampire.
But German folklore tells us that a peat spade will do in a pinch.
#PhantomsFriday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Unh%C3%AEr_in_Trzebiatkow -
The phantoms of the night are willing to teach others their music - under the right conditions.
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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Mouth_Harp_Player -
The phantoms of the night are willing to teach others their music - under the right conditions.
#PhantomsFriday
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Some people would disturb departed souls in order to win the lottery.
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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Another_Summoning -
Some people would disturb departed souls in order to win the lottery.
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The Isle of the Dead (1883) by Arnold Bocklin. The painting is partly based on the English Cemetery in Florence, near where Bocklin had a studio and where his daughter is buried. (Bocklin lost eight of his 14 children). The painting may have also been inspired by Pontikonisi, a lush islet near Corfu boasting a cypress grove and chapel. Other possible sources of inspiration include the forbidding volcanic islet of Strombolicchio off Sicily and St George Island off the coast of Montenegro. Fans of the painting included Sigmund Freud, Lenin and Hitler. Vladimir Nabokov wrote that every Berlin home had a print of the picture. #PhantomsFriday #art #arthistory #folklore #mythology #death #weird #symbolism #graveyard #gothic #history
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The Isle of the Dead (1883) by Arnold Bocklin. The painting is partly based on the English Cemetery in Florence, near where Bocklin had a studio and where his daughter is buried. (Bocklin lost eight of his 14 children). The painting may have also been inspired by Pontikonisi, a lush islet near Corfu boasting a cypress grove and chapel. Other possible sources of inspiration include the forbidding volcanic islet of Strombolicchio off Sicily and St George Island off the coast of Montenegro. Fans of the painting included Sigmund Freud, Lenin and Hitler. Vladimir Nabokov wrote that every Berlin home had a print of the picture. #PhantomsFriday #art #arthistory #folklore #mythology #death #weird #symbolism #graveyard #gothic #history
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The malice of some mother-in-laws is so great that it endures even in death.
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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Banished_Paper_Miller%27s_Wife -
The malice of some mother-in-laws is so great that it endures even in death.
#PhantomsFriday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Banished_Paper_Miller%27s_Wife -
Our understanding of supernatural creatures would be greatly expanded if more people were like this farmer, and chased after such entities instead of fleeing from them.
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Our understanding of supernatural creatures would be greatly expanded if more people were like this farmer, and chased after such entities instead of fleeing from them.
#PhantomsFriday
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Many strange spirits haunt the German countryside at night.
Including quite a few unwelcome... hitchhikers.
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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Back-Squatting_Spirit -
Many strange spirits haunt the German countryside at night.
Including quite a few unwelcome... hitchhikers.
#PhantomsFriday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Back-Squatting_Spirit -
Once, a boy from Sabert saw a terrifying parade of specters in the forest at night when he was separated from his father.
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Once, a boy from Sabert saw a terrifying parade of specters in the forest at night when he was separated from his father.
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Here's hoping everyone got the memo about #PhantomsFriday having been moved forward to become #SpookySunday (I will repost any contributions posted today on Sunday). Still the same theme - ghosts. Encounters with weird things OK provided not considered cryptids or belonging to fairy-lore. Avanti!
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Here's hoping everyone got the memo about #PhantomsFriday having been moved forward to become #SpookySunday (I will repost any contributions posted today on Sunday). Still the same theme - ghosts. Encounters with weird things OK provided not considered cryptids or belonging to fairy-lore. Avanti!
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A quick reminder, especially to those who kindly tend to post early, that #PhantomsFriday is no more but has been replaced by #SpookySunday. @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Hope to see you then!
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Thank you all for another phantasmagorically fabulous #PhantomsFriday. The feed has now disappeared into the ether and been replaced (easily, which amazed me) as #SpookySunday. I was going to take a break but I'm being confusing enough already - so the hauntings will begin again Sunday August 2.
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Thank you all for another phantasmagorically fabulous #PhantomsFriday. The feed has now disappeared into the ether and been replaced (easily, which amazed me) as #SpookySunday. I was going to take a break but I'm being confusing enough already - so the hauntings will begin again Sunday August 2.
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The Northern Line ticket hall in Bank Tube Station was once the notoriously overcrowded crypt of St Mary Woolnoth's Church, which was cleared of bodies and reinforced when the station was built. Passengers often feel a sense of desolation and some have smelt putrid odours wafting through the tunnels. One ghost sometimes glimpsed in and around the station is the 'Black Nun', a woman whose brother worked at the nearby Bank of England and was executed for forging a cheque. St Mary Woolnoth was designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, a mysterious figure known as the 'Devil's Architect' for embellishing his buildings with 'pagan' adornments like pyramids and obelisks. In 'The Wasteland', T.S. Eliot wrote: "St Mary Woolnoth kept the hours, with a dead sound on the final stroke of nine." #PhantomsFriday #folklore #history #London #gothic #psychogeography #weird #paranormal #architecture #ghosts #poetry #poets
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The Northern Line ticket hall in Bank Tube Station was once the notoriously overcrowded crypt of St Mary Woolnoth's Church, which was cleared of bodies and reinforced when the station was built. Passengers often feel a sense of desolation and some have smelt putrid odours wafting through the tunnels. One ghost sometimes glimpsed in and around the station is the 'Black Nun', a woman whose brother worked at the nearby Bank of England and was executed for forging a cheque. St Mary Woolnoth was designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, a mysterious figure known as the 'Devil's Architect' for embellishing his buildings with 'pagan' adornments like pyramids and obelisks. In 'The Wasteland', T.S. Eliot wrote: "St Mary Woolnoth kept the hours, with a dead sound on the final stroke of nine." #PhantomsFriday #folklore #history #London #gothic #psychogeography #weird #paranormal #architecture #ghosts #poetry #poets
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A color-changing poodle can be seen at the road from Waldwimmersbach to Dilsberg.
#PhantomsFriday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Ghostly_Dog -
A color-changing poodle can be seen at the road from Waldwimmersbach to Dilsberg.
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The elegant dust jacket of the first American edition of 'In Ghostly Japan' by Lafcadio Hearn, 1899.
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Midnight hunt for a ghost in the graveyard of St John's Church in #Hackney, London. Reported on August 26, 1895 - but I'm not sure of the publication. I'm sure a great time was had by all (except perhaps the ghost!)
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The spirits of the dead come to Odysseus when he visits Hades, being comrades from the war regaling him with regrets and fates after the Trojan War, but also family who died waiting for him, including Anticlea, his mother who died of grief waiting for him. #PhantomsFriday
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The spirits of the dead come to Odysseus when he visits Hades, being comrades from the war regaling him with regrets and fates after the Trojan War, but also family who died waiting for him, including Anticlea, his mother who died of grief waiting for him. #PhantomsFriday
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The spirits of the dead come to Odysseus when he visits Hades, being comrades from the war regaling him with regrets and fates after the Trojan War, but also family who died waiting for him, including Anticlea, his mother who died of grief waiting for him. #PhantomsFriday
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The spirits of the dead come to Odysseus when he visits Hades, being comrades from the war regaling him with regrets and fates after the Trojan War, but also family who died waiting for him, including Anticlea, his mother who died of grief waiting for him. #PhantomsFriday
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Some ghosts need a little help to get them to leave the house.
#PhantomsFriday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/God%27s_Reward -
Some ghosts need a little help to get them to leave the house.
#PhantomsFriday
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The two distinctive towers of ruined St Andrew's Cathedral, #Fife, are haunted. Indeed the tallest is known as The Haunted Tower: a White Lady wanders round it. The other has a very polite Ghost Monk. He once offered to help someone struggling up the stairs but, rebuffed, vanished!
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A headless horseman roams the Ziegenberg hill, condemned by the murder he committed in a fit of rage.
#PhantomsFriday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Rider_without_a_Head_on_the_Ziegenberg_hill_near_Zw%C3%B6nitz -
A headless horseman roams the Ziegenberg hill, condemned by the murder he committed in a fit of rage.
#PhantomsFriday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Rider_without_a_Head_on_the_Ziegenberg_hill_near_Zw%C3%B6nitz -
#PhantomsFriday "Fair Rosamund", 19thC English pre-Raphaelite painting by an unknown artist.
According to medieval legend Rosamund was the mistress of King Henry II & they frequently met secretly in gardens. She was poisoned out of jealousy by Queen Eleanor & became a symbol of doomed romance. -
In a 1776 battle, a cannon ball blew the skull clean off a Hessian horseman. Each night, his ghost rises in search of it. 🎨 Here, his stresshead spirit is pursued by further phantoms, those of drowned seamen. And to 'cap' it all they're backed up by gnomes with ninepin balls 👻 #PhantomsFriday
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Some ghosts have no concept of personal space.
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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_White_Cap -
Some ghosts have no concept of personal space.
#PhantomsFriday
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Another Arthur Rackham: 'Marvellous Tales of Haunted Fields and Haunted Brooks and Haunted Houses...'
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Blimey, I forgot to plug #PhantomsFriday. Well you know the drill - tomorrow, posts, ghosts etc.There'll be a break over August, but up again in September when theoretically the hot unghostly days will be behind us (but who can be sure in the UK these days?) All reposts: @[email protected]
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Many ghosts suffer because they moved boundary stones while alive.
#PhantomsFriday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Man_with_the_Boundary_Stone