In Palestinian folktale The Golden Pail, a prince undertook a quest after his father said, "prove yourself worthy of the throne through hardships." With djinn horse Ballan, he overcame feats, escaped murder, outwitted evil minister, and learning to be a good ruler. #WyrdWednesday
ALT A photo of a book titled Speak Bird, Speak Again, opened on pages 86 and 87, with the title of the story The Golden Pail on the top right of the page.
Leif Eriksson awareness being promoted on Leif Eriksson Eve.
Leif Eriksson Day is October 9th and honors the Vinland voyage, but the norns decreed that I shall promote Varangian Guard awareness tomorrow instead. Just like fate, wyrd goes ever as wyrd must!
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Bran's Voyage was to find the Otherworld, so moved by a song was he. He sailed west with three companies, meeting Mannanan mac Lir, losing a crewmember to the Isle of Joy, and finally landing on the Isle of Women, where one year is countless decades. #WyrdWednesday
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ALT Artist energy69's depiction of the Voyage of Bran, showing in very stylized form a galley full of oars and a man hailing a coming chariot on a blue, green, and orange sea, the man within shirtless and looking like Leonidas from 300: he is Manannan macLir, and two other horses run on the other side of the ship, wildly greeting the voyagers. In the far distance, the silver light of Tir na nOg can be seen and a mountain beyond; the sun is setting around Mannanan's head.
#WyrdWednesday: `One day, Cormac, the High King of Ireland, was captivated by a youth dressed in splendid robes and finely costumed. Over his shoulder he carried a nine-belled stick, each bell shaped like a golden apple.
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ALT My Celtic High King from El Druida histórico, dunailline.org, licenced under CC BY-SA-NC
Thor took a short voyage with Tyr's father Hymir, meant to be a fishing expedition, but the Thunderer knew better. He eschewed gentle seas to fish to the harsh churning waves and used an ox head for bait: he caught Jormungandr the World Serpent, who got away. #WyrdWednesday
ALT An unknown artist's depiction of the final battle between Thor and Jormungandr, showing Thor leaping with a massive, too-long instead of too short handled Mjolnir from a stormy mist into the Midgard Serpent, a massive snake with pointy teeth and a long tongue, with horns all over the serpent's back.
'by midnight, all sleepless watchers hear and fear a wild south-west storm. That storm roared frenzied, for seven days. It did not cease till the Atlantic was strewn with wrecks ... '
Charlotte Bronte, Villette. @Nick_Holland_#WyrdWednesday
Long ago, the goddess Pele traveled across the ocean in her canoe to search for a suitable home where her fire and lava would be safe from the waters of her sister and rival Nāmaka the sea goddess, ultimately settling inside Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano. #WyrdWednesday
The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish.
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In 2008, a Spanish woman named Lerina Garcia claimed to have woken up in a reality slightly different from the one she remembered. She noticed small but unsettling discrepancies, such as minor changes in her workplace,
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ALT Alt text: A surreal digital artwork showing a woman sitting on a purple bed inside a glowing, cocoon-like cave or portal. She is touching a radiant, swirling light resembling a nebula or galaxy that fills the space before her. The cave’s outer surface appears cracked and dark, contrasting with the vivid cosmic colors within. Outside the cocoon, the background is misty and ethereal, with faint lights and shapes suggesting another world or dimension.
"If that machine can do what you say it can do, destroy it, George! Destroy it before it destroys you!"
#WyrdWednesday#fantasy#film
The Time Machine, 1960
Dir. George Pal
Casting my eyes upwards, I beheld a spectacle which froze the current of my blood. At a terrific height directly above us, and upon the very verge of the precipitous descent, hovered a gigantic ship …
MS Found In A Bottle
Edgar Allan Poe
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art: Byam Shaw 1909
Jim and Hilda Bloggs' journey through life. They survived The Blitz. An atomic bomb can't be all that different ... can it? As told in Raymond Briggs' WHEN THE WIND BLOWS, first published in 1982.
#WyrdWednesday#80s
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise
. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before!
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A cave in a hill near Haselor was believed to contain an iron chest full of treasure secured by 3 locks and guarded by a cockerel. One intrepid treasure-seeker found his way to the chest only to be ripped apart by the guardian before he could open the 3rd lock.
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"The natives over there are cannibals. They eat liars with the same enthusiasm as they eat honest men" ~ Captain Nemo
#WyrdWednesday#conceptart#film
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 1954
Dir. Richard Fleischer
The Papar (Old Irish, "father"/"pope") according to early Icelandic sagas were wandering Christian monks who took secluded residence in parts of Iceland before its habitation by the Norsemen of Scandinavia as evidenced by the sagas & recent archaeological findings! #WyrdWednesday
Wyrdlings!
Are you up for a Punch and Judy show this #WyrdWednesday?
We want to see your wyrd & wynderful
“Dolls, Puppets & Effigies”
for this week’s topic and hear your tales of them, from Henson to Healing Poppets!
Wyrdlings! This Wednesday is National Weather Person's Day (apparently)! So this week's #WyrdWednesday theme is:
'Under the Weather - On Snowstorms, Sea Breezes, and Cyclones!'
Bring us tales of meteorological mayhem, atmospheric artwork and talk of typhoons and tornadoes!