#wyrdwednesday — Public Fediverse posts

@juergen_hubert Interesting. I wonder how many more countries claim him.

Every Scot knows of course that Pontius Pilate was born in the wee hamlet of Fortingall in Pertshire ...

https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/fortingall/fortingall/index.html

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There is a surprising amount of #Bible fanfiction in German folklore.

My favorite example of this is the story that Pontius Pilate was originally from northern Bavaria, where he built a beautiful city that ultimately sank beneath the ground...

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Pilatusstadt

There is a surprising amount of #Bible fanfiction in German folklore.

My favorite example of this is the story that Pontius Pilate was originally from northern Bavaria, where he built a beautiful city that ultimately sank beneath the ground...

#WyrdWednesday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Pilatusstadt

Somewhat comedic but more truthful than Marvel Comics' approach, the classic series Valhalla adapts Norse myth in all of its weird glory, not shying from the gods' natures despite the cartoony style. It's a must-read. #WyrdWednesday

Somewhat comedic but more truthful than Marvel Comics' approach, the classic series Valhalla adapts Norse myth in all of its weird glory, not shying from the gods' natures despite the cartoony style. It's a must-read. #WyrdWednesday

"She had a face only a mummy could love." Not the only time Hammer's posters undermined their own films. 'Drink A Pinta Blood A Day' on Taste The Blood Of Dracula's and the two plasters on the neck of the girl on 'Dracula Has Risen From The Grave (obviously)' - although that is witty. #WyrdWednesday

Anime and manga culture literally saved Japanese yōkai: the 1960s saw a series of manga like GeGeGe no Kitaro, which focused on yōkai and bakemono, the monsters of Japanese myth. This led to a revival in their study and to new stories, as well as moral panics. #WyrdWednesday

Anime and manga culture literally saved Japanese yōkai: the 1960s saw a series of manga like GeGeGe no Kitaro, which focused on yōkai and bakemono, the monsters of Japanese myth. This led to a revival in their study and to new stories, as well as moral panics. #WyrdWednesday

I am Merlin. Merlin Ambrosius. Merlin Silvester. The wisest man at the court of King Arthur, and the greatest fool. Well, shall we say the only adult? In days of old, when knights were bold. Merlin. My mother was a virgin. My father was the devil. - From 'Merlin' by Robert Nye #WyrdWednesday #legend

🥀🖤🥀'Night and Sleep' - by Evelyn De Morgan - shows Night guiding her son Sleep through a dusky sky, as he scatters poppies over the land. #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

🥀🖤🥀'Night and Sleep' - by Evelyn De Morgan - shows Night guiding her son Sleep through a dusky sky, as he scatters poppies over the land. #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

Once, a mother was so devasted by the death of her young child that she decided that no ordinary grave good would do.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Bread_Shoes

The Woe Mother was the ghost of an evil midwife who haunted the city of Augsburg.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Woe_Mother

The malice of some mothers-in-law will not even end in death.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Banished_Paper_Miller%27s_Wife

If a mother murders her child and buried them beneath an oak tree, and if one day planks from this tree are used for a ship, the the soul of the murdered child will turn into a klabautermann - a shipboard spirit.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Klabautermann

"The baby lay wide awake in its crib, staring with deep, sharp blue eyes. 'It's not nice being afraid of the thing you birthed.' Her whisper lowered. 'He lies there, listens to us talking, waiting for you to go away so he can try to kill me again!' #WyrdWednesday #RayBradbury #BookChatWeekly

"The baby lay wide awake in its crib, staring with deep, sharp blue eyes. 'It's not nice being afraid of the thing you birthed.' Her whisper lowered. 'He lies there, listens to us talking, waiting for you to go away so he can try to kill me again!' #WyrdWednesday #RayBradbury #BookChatWeekly

On her deathbed, a woman once desperately tried to convince her daughter to accept her kobold - but she refused.

Soon after, the mother was found with a snapped neck.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Woman_is_killed_by_her_Kobold

The "Howling Mother" is a strange specter that haunts the town of Zellerfeld.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Howling_Mother

Try and get hold of a copy of 'House Mother Normal' by B S Johnson (1971) if you can. Set in an old people's home, it's one of the most original, gruesome, hilarious black comedies I've read - and with an ending so shocking and disgusting even I didn't see it coming. #WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly

Try and get hold of a copy of 'House Mother Normal' by B S Johnson (1971) if you can. Set in an old people's home, it's one of the most original, gruesome, hilarious black comedies I've read - and with an ending so shocking and disgusting even I didn't see it coming. #WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly

If a child is born with a caul over their head, it is the mother's duty to burn the caul to ash and give the ashes to the child together with her milk.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Unh%C3%AEr_or_Unhuer

Isis' cowhorn crown came from her interfering in the contest between her son Horus and brother Set. Horus beheaded his mother in rash irritation but replaced her head with a cow's head; at morning she revived, and now with a crown showing Horus' apology. #WyrdWednesday

Isis' cowhorn crown came from her interfering in the contest between her son Horus and brother Set. Horus beheaded his mother in rash irritation but replaced her head with a cow's head; at morning she revived, and now with a crown showing Horus' apology. #WyrdWednesday

Happy #WorldCarnivorousPlantDay! Meet the Swollen Bladderwort. She floats on the Okefenokee like a yellow star, but beneath her "snowflake" arms lies a hungry Mother. Her tiny bladders are vacuum traps that snap shut in a blink, sucking life into a watery grave. #WyrdWednesday #Okefenokee #Nature

Happy #WorldCarnivorousPlantDay! Meet the Swollen Bladderwort. She floats on the Okefenokee like a yellow star, but beneath her "snowflake" arms lies a hungry Mother. Her tiny bladders are vacuum traps that snap shut in a blink, sucking life into a watery grave. #WyrdWednesday #Okefenokee #Nature

Happy #WorldCarnivorousPlantDay! Meet the Swollen Bladderwort. She floats on the Okefenokee like a yellow star, but beneath her "snowflake" arms lies a hungry Mother. Her tiny bladders are vacuum traps that snap shut in a blink, sucking life into a watery grave. #WyrdWednesday #Okefenokee #Nature

Happy #WorldCarnivorousPlantDay! Meet the Swollen Bladderwort. She floats on the Okefenokee like a yellow star, but beneath her "snowflake" arms lies a hungry Mother. Her tiny bladders are vacuum traps that snap shut in a blink, sucking life into a watery grave. #WyrdWednesday #Okefenokee #Nature

In the Okefenokee, Motherhood has scales and cold, amber eyes. The Great Gator Mother guards a mound of rot and peat like a queen. She is the swamp’s toothy Madonna... nurturing her brood in the blackwater while ready to snap the world in half. #WyrdWednesday #Okefenokee #Witchsky

In the Okefenokee, Motherhood has scales and cold, amber eyes. The Great Gator Mother guards a mound of rot and peat like a queen. She is the swamp’s toothy Madonna... nurturing her brood in the blackwater while ready to snap the world in half. #WyrdWednesday #Okefenokee #Witchsky

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"This was #Walpurgis Night! Walpurgis Night, when, according to the belief of millions of people, the devil was abroad—when the graves were opened & the dead came forth & walked. When evil things of earth & air & water held revel." Bram Stoker "Dracula's Guest" #WyrdWednesday #bookchatweekly

"This was #Walpurgis Night! Walpurgis Night, when, according to the belief of millions of people, the devil was abroad—when the graves were opened & the dead came forth & walked. When evil things of earth & air & water held revel." Bram Stoker "Dracula's Guest" #WyrdWednesday #bookchatweekly

"This was #Walpurgis Night! Walpurgis Night, when, according to the belief of millions of people, the devil was abroad—when the graves were opened & the dead came forth & walked. When evil things of earth & air & water held revel." Bram Stoker "Dracula's Guest" #WyrdWednesday #bookchatweekly

A #witch who lived in the #Neolithic burial chamber at Lligwy, #Anglesey, was wrongly blamed for a series of storms and angry fishermen threw her into the sea. But a young man dived in and saved her. In gratitude, she gave him a charm which brought him good luck all his life #WyrdWednesday #folklore

An example of the superb concept artwork Kay Nielsen created for the 'Night On A Bare/Bald Mountain' sequence in Disney's 'Fantasia'. #WyrdWednesday #KayNielsen #Disney #illustration #witchcraft #witch #Walpurgisnacht #Walpurgisnight

🌿🏵️🌿Primrose flowers were believed to ward off the spells of Faeries. #MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

🌿🏵️🌿Primrose flowers were believed to ward off the spells of Faeries. #MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

Those inverted horns are useless weapons but that fundament can fart feculent flame as far as 12km. This is the artillery of the bonnacon, a composite creature with a bull's head & horse's mane. Olfactory overwhelm fells its foes when accosted by its acrid ejectamenta #WyrdWednesday #MedievalSky

The star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) wears twenty-two pink tentacles on her snout like a fleshy crown, sensing the swamp’s secrets through the dark. She "sees" the earth with a "fingery" touch! A fascinating star faced mammal in the Okefenokee muck. #WyrdWednesday #EarthDay #Okefenokee

Deep in the muck lives the Two-Toed Amphiuma, a slick shadow with a dragon’s heart. No eel, but a giant salamander of the old world. When the swamp parches, she sleeps in a slime cocoon. Watch your hands in the dark water... she bites hard and never lets go. #WyrdWednesday #EarthDay #Okefenokee

The pink sundew offers a "honey" that’s nothing but a sticky grave, glittering like diamonds in the bog heat. Once touched, the tentacles curl in like a slow choking fist to melt life into soup. Beauty in the swamp isn't always what it first appears to be. #WyrdWednesday #EarthDay #Okefenokee

Deep in the tea-colored Okefenokee, the Hooded Pitcher Plant is a lighthouse of lost souls. It uses translucent "windows" to trick insects with a false sky, luring them into a stained glass trap of digestive fire. A wonderful, macabre marvel of the swamp. #WyrdWednesday #EarthDay #Okefenokee

Flowers and the world's bounty depicted in arguably Guiseppe Archimboldo's masterpiece - his portrait of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, as Vertumnus, Roman god of the seasons (1591). Archimboldo's composite portraits are among my favourite works of art. #WyrdWednesday #16thC #mannerism #artsky

Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem 'Jabberwocky' may be based on the County Durham legend of the Sockburn Worm. This foul-smelling, poisonous dragon, who lived on an isolated peninsula in the River Tees, was beheaded by a local noble. Jabberwocky describes how "The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head, He went galumphing back." Carroll's father was the rector of the nearby village of Croft. In the village church is a carving said to have inspired the Cheshire Cat. #WyrdWednesday #folklore #literature #weird #mythology #gothic #history #poetry #poems #poets #churches

'Ludwig', a TV show for children, features a Beethoven-obsessed crystal egg that lived in a forest and... and... if I try and describe it any further, my brain will melt. It was shown in 1977 when I was 13 and I don't think I ever quite recovered. #WyrdWednesday #kidstv @[email protected]