Wyrd Wednesday
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We are signing off now as the sun sets on this lovely #WyrdWednesday. Thank you for all of your posts about Dark Nights and Darkness.
Our next topic will be announced on Monday. Have a wonderful evening!
Our next topic will be announced on Monday. Have a wonderful evening!
We are signing off now as the sun sets on this lovely #WyrdWednesday. Thank you for all of your posts about Dark Nights and Darkness.
Our next topic will be announced on Monday. Have a wonderful evening!
Our next topic will be announced on Monday. Have a wonderful evening!
a black and white photo of a night sky with a shooting star
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December 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
We are signing off now as the sun sets on this lovely #WyrdWednesday. Thank you for all of your posts about Dark Nights and Darkness.
Our next topic will be announced on Monday. Have a wonderful evening!
Our next topic will be announced on Monday. Have a wonderful evening!
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Since it's #Wyrdwednesday
Let me share a bit more about these alluring creatures that bring darkness and angst to those they meet.
#HistoricalFantasy #HerstoricalFantasy #FantasyNovels #History #SorceryTrials
youtu.be/VFMuPCPm_wM
Let me share a bit more about these alluring creatures that bring darkness and angst to those they meet.
#HistoricalFantasy #HerstoricalFantasy #FantasyNovels #History #SorceryTrials
youtu.be/VFMuPCPm_wM
Book Trailer - The Lure of Water and Wood by Helen Lundström Erwin
YouTube video by Helen Lundström Erwin
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December 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Since it's #Wyrdwednesday
Let me share a bit more about these alluring creatures that bring darkness and angst to those they meet.
#HistoricalFantasy #HerstoricalFantasy #FantasyNovels #History #SorceryTrials
youtu.be/VFMuPCPm_wM
Let me share a bit more about these alluring creatures that bring darkness and angst to those they meet.
#HistoricalFantasy #HerstoricalFantasy #FantasyNovels #History #SorceryTrials
youtu.be/VFMuPCPm_wM
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In 1896, phantom airships were reported across the American Midwest, drifting silently overhead before disappearing into clouds. No wreckage was ever found. #WyrdWednesday
December 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
In 1896, phantom airships were reported across the American Midwest, drifting silently overhead before disappearing into clouds. No wreckage was ever found. #WyrdWednesday
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#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday: `It was said that snowflakes could be shape-shifted witches in which they could hide when they traveled to their secret meetings on the winds.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
December 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday: `It was said that snowflakes could be shape-shifted witches in which they could hide when they traveled to their secret meetings on the winds.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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"Sad on the jutting eminence he sits & views the main that ever toils below...to the setting sun he turns a mournful eye & down his dying heart sinks helpless". This mariner is young, but shipwreck, biting cold & isolation are too much for the human heart to bear. The kite awaits... #WyrdWednesday
December 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
"Sad on the jutting eminence he sits & views the main that ever toils below...to the setting sun he turns a mournful eye & down his dying heart sinks helpless". This mariner is young, but shipwreck, biting cold & isolation are too much for the human heart to bear. The kite awaits... #WyrdWednesday
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The mystery that is the Cornish Fogou. Their purpose unknown but my best guess is for rituals of death and rebirth. #wyrdwednesday Boleigh, Penwith
December 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The mystery that is the Cornish Fogou. Their purpose unknown but my best guess is for rituals of death and rebirth. #wyrdwednesday Boleigh, Penwith
Thanks to @cwreeve.bsky.social for the last round!
@prairiebones.bsky.social s would love to see your art, folklore, and stories about Darkness and Dark Nights on today's #WyrdWednesday
@prairiebones.bsky.social s would love to see your art, folklore, and stories about Darkness and Dark Nights on today's #WyrdWednesday
a painting of an aurora borealis over a body of water
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December 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Thanks to @cwreeve.bsky.social for the last round!
@prairiebones.bsky.social s would love to see your art, folklore, and stories about Darkness and Dark Nights on today's #WyrdWednesday
@prairiebones.bsky.social s would love to see your art, folklore, and stories about Darkness and Dark Nights on today's #WyrdWednesday
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The Aurora Borealis is associated with death among some Indigenous tribes.
The Skolt Sámi believed that the dead bled from their open wounds in the afterlife, creating the ribbons that danced across the sky.
#WyrdWednesday
The Skolt Sámi believed that the dead bled from their open wounds in the afterlife, creating the ribbons that danced across the sky.
#WyrdWednesday
December 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The Aurora Borealis is associated with death among some Indigenous tribes.
The Skolt Sámi believed that the dead bled from their open wounds in the afterlife, creating the ribbons that danced across the sky.
#WyrdWednesday
The Skolt Sámi believed that the dead bled from their open wounds in the afterlife, creating the ribbons that danced across the sky.
#WyrdWednesday
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One day, a strange creature hatched in the village of Wewelsfleth.
#wyrdwednesday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Fluting_Thing_in_the_Owls%27_Gable
#wyrdwednesday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Fluting_Thing_in_the_Owls%27_Gable
The Fluting Thing in the Owls' Gable
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December 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
One day, a strange creature hatched in the village of Wewelsfleth.
#wyrdwednesday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Fluting_Thing_in_the_Owls%27_Gable
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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Fluting_Thing_in_the_Owls%27_Gable
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#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `A young knight of Camelot, Lorois, encountered a hundred thin women dressed in black and riding scrawny horses, who were accompanied by thunder and snow as they rode, followed at a distance by a hundred men of similar appearance.
Source: P.
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Source: P.
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December 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `A young knight of Camelot, Lorois, encountered a hundred thin women dressed in black and riding scrawny horses, who were accompanied by thunder and snow as they rode, followed at a distance by a hundred men of similar appearance.
Source: P.
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Source: P.
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The French town of Loudun watched nuns convulse and scream in Latin during the 1600s. Entire exorcisms were held in public. The line between mass hysteria and something darker is still debated. #WyrdWednesday
December 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The French town of Loudun watched nuns convulse and scream in Latin during the 1600s. Entire exorcisms were held in public. The line between mass hysteria and something darker is still debated. #WyrdWednesday
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"Her pocket-handkerchief, however, on which was her name, she gave to the huntsman, who went and cut the tongues out of the dragon’s seven heads, wrapped them in the handkerchief, and preserved them carefully."
(Grimm)
🎨 Elenore Abbott
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(Grimm)
🎨 Elenore Abbott
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December 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"Her pocket-handkerchief, however, on which was her name, she gave to the huntsman, who went and cut the tongues out of the dragon’s seven heads, wrapped them in the handkerchief, and preserved them carefully."
(Grimm)
🎨 Elenore Abbott
#wyrdwednesday
(Grimm)
🎨 Elenore Abbott
#wyrdwednesday
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Ultimately, all "Get Rich Quick" schemes come with too high a price.
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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Fickle_Xaver_of_T%C3%A4gerig
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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Fickle_Xaver_of_T%C3%A4gerig
The Fickle Xaver of Tägerig
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December 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Ultimately, all "Get Rich Quick" schemes come with too high a price.
#wyrdwednesday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Fickle_Xaver_of_T%C3%A4gerig
#wyrdwednesday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Fickle_Xaver_of_T%C3%A4gerig
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But then there was that talk about a spectre cat.
I ain't frightened of much … but when it comes to ghosts and spectres, I take a back seat, and I don't care who knows it.
The Mystery of M. Felix
B L Farjeon, 1890
Mallory Hart #WyrdWednesday
I ain't frightened of much … but when it comes to ghosts and spectres, I take a back seat, and I don't care who knows it.
The Mystery of M. Felix
B L Farjeon, 1890
Mallory Hart #WyrdWednesday
December 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
But then there was that talk about a spectre cat.
I ain't frightened of much … but when it comes to ghosts and spectres, I take a back seat, and I don't care who knows it.
The Mystery of M. Felix
B L Farjeon, 1890
Mallory Hart #WyrdWednesday
I ain't frightened of much … but when it comes to ghosts and spectres, I take a back seat, and I don't care who knows it.
The Mystery of M. Felix
B L Farjeon, 1890
Mallory Hart #WyrdWednesday
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#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `The snow had ceased and the stars were shining now; the wind had dropped, and only occasionally sounded in weird murmurings through the giant oak-trees on one side of the rath.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `The snow had ceased and the stars were shining now; the wind had dropped, and only occasionally sounded in weird murmurings through the giant oak-trees on one side of the rath.
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Old graveyards often grow colder than the surrounding land at night. Some scientists call it temperature inversion. Locals call it the dead breathing. #WyrdWednesday
Art: Caspar David Friedrich
Art: Caspar David Friedrich
December 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Old graveyards often grow colder than the surrounding land at night. Some scientists call it temperature inversion. Locals call it the dead breathing. #WyrdWednesday
Art: Caspar David Friedrich
Art: Caspar David Friedrich
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"Dark Tales For Dark Nights"🐦⬛
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December 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"Dark Tales For Dark Nights"🐦⬛
#WyrdWednesday
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1/3 A poor girl is selling matches on NYE. If she goes home, she will be beaten for not selling the matches. She lights them one at a time to try to keep warm. www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1731... #WyrdWednesday #illustration #art #winter #Christmas #gifts #fairytale #LegendaryWednesday
The Little Match Girl - Harry Clark Fairytale Christmas by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble
The Little Match Girl - Harry Clark
"In the brightness, the old grandmother stood"
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December 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
1/3 A poor girl is selling matches on NYE. If she goes home, she will be beaten for not selling the matches. She lights them one at a time to try to keep warm. www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1731... #WyrdWednesday #illustration #art #winter #Christmas #gifts #fairytale #LegendaryWednesday
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“In a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Karpathians, a man stood one winter night watching & listening… Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy.”
—Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), “The Interlopers”
#WyrdWednesday 💙📚
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwoa...
—Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), “The Interlopers”
#WyrdWednesday 💙📚
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwoa...
"The Interlopers" by Saki / Lost in the Wilds of Horror
YouTube video by HorrorBabble
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December 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“In a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Karpathians, a man stood one winter night watching & listening… Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy.”
—Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), “The Interlopers”
#WyrdWednesday 💙📚
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwoa...
—Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), “The Interlopers”
#WyrdWednesday 💙📚
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwoa...
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An alchemist's servant inherited his master's entire possessions - as long as he disposed of the former's corpse in very specific ways...
#wyrdwednesday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Alchemist_and_the_Young_Lindwurm
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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Alchemist_and_the_Young_Lindwurm
The Alchemist and the Young Lindwurm
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December 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
An alchemist's servant inherited his master's entire possessions - as long as he disposed of the former's corpse in very specific ways...
#wyrdwednesday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Alchemist_and_the_Young_Lindwurm
#wyrdwednesday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Alchemist_and_the_Young_Lindwurm
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#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `The fairy Sin faked an army of blue men, men with goat heads and similar monsters that made Muircertach mac Erc go mad.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `The fairy Sin faked an army of blue men, men with goat heads and similar monsters that made Muircertach mac Erc go mad.
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Dark doings about to unfold on the cover of my copy of Thrills, Crimes & Mysteries, published in 1936. That sinister fellow could hardly look more 1930s if he tried. TC&M was one of John Gawsworthy's many anthologies. That silvering must have looked great when new.
#WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly
#WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly
December 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Dark doings about to unfold on the cover of my copy of Thrills, Crimes & Mysteries, published in 1936. That sinister fellow could hardly look more 1930s if he tried. TC&M was one of John Gawsworthy's many anthologies. That silvering must have looked great when new.
#WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly
#WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly
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Picking lice off trolls by firelight on dark nights is a time-honored tradition among Norwegian princesses, as Theodor Kittelsen illustrates in this classic work of art from 1900 now belonging to Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design. #Wyrdwednesday
December 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Picking lice off trolls by firelight on dark nights is a time-honored tradition among Norwegian princesses, as Theodor Kittelsen illustrates in this classic work of art from 1900 now belonging to Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design. #Wyrdwednesday
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Learn of the terror that haunted Hudemühlen Castle!
#wyrdwednesday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Hinzelmann
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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Hinzelmann
Hinzelmann
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December 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Learn of the terror that haunted Hudemühlen Castle!
#wyrdwednesday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Hinzelmann
#wyrdwednesday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Hinzelmann
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Dark night, dark tales
Black-and-white illustration by Clyde Caldwell for AD&D 1E module I6 Ravenloft (1983) by Tracy and Laura Hickman. A large carriage drawn by two horses approaches Castle Ravenloft under the dark skies of Barovia. Strahd von Zarovich awaits.
Dark night, dark tales
Black-and-white illustration by Clyde Caldwell for AD&D 1E module I6 Ravenloft (1983) by Tracy and Laura Hickman. A large carriage drawn by two horses approaches Castle Ravenloft under the dark skies of Barovia. Strahd von Zarovich awaits.
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Dark night, dark tales
Black-and-white illustration by Clyde Caldwell for AD&D 1E module I6 Ravenloft (1983) by Tracy and Laura Hickman. A large carriage drawn by two horses approaches Castle Ravenloft under the dark skies of Barovia. Strahd von Zarovich awaits.
Dark night, dark tales
Black-and-white illustration by Clyde Caldwell for AD&D 1E module I6 Ravenloft (1983) by Tracy and Laura Hickman. A large carriage drawn by two horses approaches Castle Ravenloft under the dark skies of Barovia. Strahd von Zarovich awaits.