C.W. Reeve @CWReeve

Author of weird tales & folk horror, co-host of #WyrdWednesday. Maybe the true horror is the friends we made along the way? 👻 cwreeve.com Nottingham, England Joined August 2018

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WyrdWednesday @WyrdWednesday

8 months ago

This week in #WyrdWednesday we invite you to our Wyrd Masquerade ball. Let's explore lore and history behind masks, costumes and disguises! 🎭

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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

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Rowdy Geirsson @RGeirsson

8 months ago

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! #WyrdWednesday

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Godyssey @GodysseyPodcast

8 months ago

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 🖼: energy69

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1.Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @[email protected] @NeuKelte

8 months ago

#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. 1/3

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Godyssey @GodysseyPodcast

8 months ago

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

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Therese Taylor @ThereseTaylor12

8 months ago

'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

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EssAeEm @EssAeEm

8 months ago

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

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TWhatley🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @whatters1

8 months ago

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. #WyrdWednesday

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Jussi @FinnFolklorist

8 months ago

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, #WyrdWednesday 🧵

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Folklore of Scotland @StephenGeoRae

8 months ago

"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

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Neil G - Poet @Banquozghost

8 months ago

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 #WyrdWednesday art: Byam Shaw 1909

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Joe McCartney @joemccjoe

8 months ago

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

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Era una noche oscura y tormentosa @manuelabennet

8 months ago

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! #WyrdWednesday

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @WarksFolklore

8 months ago

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. #WyrdWednesday

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Folklore of Scotland @StephenGeoRae

8 months ago

"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

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Irish History Bitesize! @lorraineelizab6

8 months ago

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

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WyrdWednesday @WyrdWednesday

a year ago

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!