#wyrdwednesday

Modern historians have suggested that dragons were proven to premodern populations by none other than unearthed fossilized dinosaur bones. Given how close modern dragons look to these bones it is entirely possible, though dragon truthers would very much disagree. #WyrdWednesday

In autumn she is Sharada, the goddess of that season: Saraswati prefers this season, the goddess of learning blessing it in India and beyond. It is a time for music, for speech, for learning and art and create but also to regenerate and grow. #WyrdWednesday 🖼: R.R. Varma

Autumn sees an increase of kitsune sightings and with it, fox fire. As reapers take to the fields, they see foxes moving in and about them, not always a bad sign but always an auspicious one. #WyrdWednesday 🖼️: Jeepster

The Pschiponza appears during the noon hours at harvest time, and is a danger to laborers who work instead of resting. #WyrdWednesdayhttps://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Pschiponza

Higan is a seven-day Japanese Buddhist festival, a celebration of the equinoxes. The fall version is called shūbun, when farmers assess their harvest and families have ceremonies at ancestral graves. The red spider lilly, a symbol of death, marks the holiday. #WyrdWednesday

Herne the Hunter is mentioned in William Shakespeare's play "The Merry Wives of Windsor" as the ghost of a gamekeeper who has antlers and haunts Windsor Forest. Later people have claimed Herne was originally a British pagan god, but no references to him before Shakespeare survive. 🎨 Alfred Concanen and Thomas Lee #WyrdWednesday #Mythology #Folklore #Shakespeare #WilliamShakespeare #Literature #Poetry #Theatre

Cernunnos is the Celtic horned god, called the great peacemaker and master of the wild places. This figure is largely mysterious, and we only know his name from a single source, a stone pillar in Paris, yet he has captured the modern imagination of Celtophiles. #WyrdWednesday

The Horned Serpent of Muscogee Creek myth has crystalline scales and a gem imbedded in its forehead, feasting on sumac and being a magnet for wild game. Its horns are used for medicine, its scales for divination. #WyrdWednesday 🖼️: Dracarian

#WyrdWednesday: While horned helmets among the #Celtic tribes are well documented in artwork and coins from the period, actual archaeological confirmation of the existence of this particular type of helmet has been rare. Indeed, until now it was thought that the only known example from Iron Age Europe was the Waterloo Helmet found in the River Thames in London, which is ceremonial in nature and differs greatly from Celtic horned helmets depicted elsewhere.` Photo: Warrior with horned helmet depicted on a stele from Bormio (Lombardy), Italy, (early 4th c. BC) Source: https://balkancelts.wordpress.com/2017/03/26/the-tyle-helmet-a-balkan-celtic-horned-helmet-from-bryastovets-eastern-bulgaria/

If you need a masterclass in well-deserved rest, look to the apex Landlord of the Swamp. Nothing relaxes like an alligator on a hot July afternoon -sprawled out in the blackwater mud, soaking up the heat, completely unbothered by the world moving past. #WyrdWednesday #Okefenokee #Nature #WitchSky

#WyrdWednesday #Celtic: `...the voice of Sualtach from the dissevered head still called aloud, as though he were alive, “Your men are being slain, your cattle driven away; your women fall as captives to the men of Erin. In wild Murthemne’s plain Cuchulain all alone still holds the foemen back. Ulster, Arise, arise!” “Too noisy is that head,” King Conor said, moving again and stirring in his sleep; “put it upon the pillar of the house that it may go to rest.” Then one of the warriors, hearing his King’s voice, bestirred himself, and lifted up the head and set it on a pillar; ... .” Source: Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster, by Eleanor Hull Here’s the backstory: https://hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/115011490083543289

In Greek mythology, the moon goddess Selene falls in love with the handsome shepherd Endymion as he sleeps on Mt. Latmus, so she begs Zeus to keep Endymion forever young. Zeus puts the youth into an eternal sleep, and he never ages. Selene visits Endymion every night. 🎨 Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini #WyrdWednesday #Mythology #Folklore #Greece #Roman

The "Wailing Woman" is a terrifying specter of doom that appears during stormy nights on the Lüneburg Heath. #WyrdWednesdayhttps://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Wailing_Woman

“If there is a halo round the sun or moon, then we can all expect rain quite soon.” It's true, the old saying: ice crystals in clouds refract off the light, creating a halo that indicates a front is about to move through the area. #WyrdWednesday

#WyrdWednesday In 1786 a sea monster described as 14 metres long with a human-like head and a hard turtle-like shell was washed up at Porthleven in Cornwall after a storm, as depicted in this contemporary watercolour by Charles Catton. peter-moore.co.uk/blog/histori...

The al-mi'raj from medieval Arabic folklore resembles a yellow hare with a single horn. This creature is so fierce that much larger animals flee from it. The inhabitants of an island in the Indian Ocean gave Alexander the Great an al-mi'raj to repay him for slaying a dragon. #WyrdWednesday #Mythology #Folklore #Literature #Arabia #Medieval #AlexandertheGreat #Monster

In Arabian folklore, one of Sinbad the Sailor's adventures was when he sailed to the City of Apes. The city's inhabitants must sleep in boats on the water since at night savage apes come down from the mountains and enter the city to steal its fruit and attack any humans they find. #WyrdWednesday #Mythology #Folklore #Arabia #MiddleEast #Literature #ArabianNights #Sinbad #Ape

Final one for #WyrdWednesday. (A newspaper cartoon by Hans Arnold from - and I can't think why I'm assuming this - the 1970s.) #mermaid

Ekke Nekkepenn: Merman, adulterer, murderer, Rumpelstiltskin imitator. #Wyrdwednesdayhttps://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Man_of_the_Ocean_Ekke_Nekkepenn

According to the Sawa of Cameroon, the Jengu is a sea witch, a mermaid with wooly hair and a smile with a notable gap. She can cure illness and bring good fortune when worshipped, so have a care and be respectful. #WyrdWednesday 🖼: reneenault