#wyrdwednesday

@Godyssey@pagan.plus · May 20, 2026

The Gashlycrumb Tinies, Edward Gorey's famous alphabetical tale of children dying, is a dark, humorous riff on 19th century tales of children receiving bizarre and deadly punishments for disobeying their parents. #WyrdWednesday 🖼: E. Gorey

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@Godyssey@pagan.plus · May 13, 2026

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

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Jürgen Hubert

@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · May 06, 2026

Once, a mother was so devasted by the death of her young child that she decided that no ordinary grave good would do. #WyrdWednesday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Bread_Shoes

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Jürgen Hubert

@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · May 06, 2026

The Woe Mother was the ghost of an evil midwife who haunted the city of Augsburg. #WyrdWednesday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Woe_Mother

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Jürgen Hubert

@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · May 06, 2026

The malice of some mothers-in-law will not even end in death. #WyrdWednesday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Banished_Paper_Miller%27s_Wife

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Jürgen Hubert

@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · May 06, 2026

The "Howling Mother" is a strange specter that haunts the town of Zellerfeld. #WyrdWednesday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Howling_Mother

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@Godyssey@pagan.plus · May 06, 2026

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

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@Godyssey@pagan.plus · May 06, 2026

Daughter of the Fisher King, the Grail Maiden has many names, among them Elaine, Amite, and Elizabeth, and she holds the Holy Grail until one so pure as to claim it arrives. In some tales, she is the mother of Galahad, Lancelot not knowing this. #WyrdWednesday 🖼️: Rackham

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@Godyssey@pagan.plus · May 06, 2026

In 1897 in West Virginia, a man called Trout Shue was convicted for strangling his wife. The star witness? His wife, Elva Zona Heaster Shue, appeared to her mother and explained her death: strangled, her neck broken, down to which vertebrae. He was found guilty. #WyrdWednesday

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@Godyssey@pagan.plus · May 06, 2026

After all she had done for Jason, all the death and bloodshed to get power, Medea snapped when he left her for Princess Glauce of Corinth: killing her own children, she gave Glauce a dress soaked in poison which killed her. #WyrdWednesday 🖼️: Neithy

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Jürgen Hubert

@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · May 06, 2026

Even death will not prevent some mothers from breastfeeding their newborn children. #WyrdWednesday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Love_after_Death

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Jürgen Hubert

@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · May 06, 2026

A poor mother of nine children once convinced her husband that he should one of her children over to an evil spirit in exchange for prosperity - but she reconsidered at the last moment. However, in the end she buried them all. #WyrdWednesday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Old_Mill_in_Klein-Glienicke

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@Godyssey@pagan.plus · Apr 29, 2026

The first "witch hunt" was Roman, records Livy, stating how in 331 BCE at least 170 women were executed under the statutes of the Twelve Tables for their magical involvement in an epidemic that ravaged Roman crops, claiming it was magical poison. #WyrdWednesday

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@Godyssey@pagan.plus · Apr 29, 2026

Iceland's Katla volcano began life as Katla the witch, who threw herself into a glacial ravine fearing she would have been caught after killing a young shepherd who used her magic speedster pants. When her anger rises, this volcano blows its top. #WyrdWednesday

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@Godyssey@pagan.plus · Apr 29, 2026

In early modern European folklore, witch's ointment is a salve by which witches could fly, rubbed on either their bodies or on objects like brooms. Made from the fat of children and various herbs, the herbs were likely a hallucinogen and the fat not human. #WyrdWednesday

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@Godyssey@pagan.plus · Apr 29, 2026

Black dogs have been a witch's familiar since witches have walked the Paths of Night, as these are favored animals of Hekate, Greek chthonic deity of magic and secrets. #WyrdWednesday

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@Godyssey@pagan.plus · Apr 29, 2026

Toads have long been associated with witches as familiars of choice, both as the source of healing salves and deadly poisons. Toads as familiars appear in the Scottish witch trials of James VI, who faced attempted poisoning by toady witches. #WyrdWednesday

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Jürgen Hubert

@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · Apr 22, 2026

"Germanica" is an otherworldly city that only a few people have visited by accident. #WyrdWednesday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Postman_of_Itzehoe

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Bevan Thomas

@bevanthomas@mstdn.ca · Apr 01, 2026

In Finnish folklore, the demigod magician Väinämöinen fell into the sea. There, a waterfowl lay three eggs on his knee. Väinämöinen moved his leg, causing the eggs to break. The yolks became the sun, the egg whites became the moon, and the shells' crumbs became the stars. #WyrdWednesday #Mythology #Folklore #Finland #Väinämöinen #Vainamoinen

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Jürgen Hubert

@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · Mar 04, 2026

Few magical flowers come with detailed notes written in golden letters on black vellum. #WyrdWednesday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Wunderblume_on_L%C3%B6bau_Mountain

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