Thank you, wyrd mothers @cwreeve.bsky.social & Sam for being the ouija board collecting messages of those from the Great Beyond. Wyrd mother @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social raises from the dead now to hear more of the uncanny stories you Wyrdlings tell on this gloomy #WyrdWednesday!

That, o'er the floor and down the wall,
Like ghosts the shadows rise and fall!

The Sleeper
Edgar Allan Poe

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Connecticut's mysterious "JB-55" burial contained a man whose bones had apparently been rearranged after death, possibly as an anti-vampire measure. Researchers later used DNA and genealogy to identify him as likely John Barber, a 19th-century farmer. #WyrdWednesday

The Twilight Zone. Mr. Garrity and the Graves. May 8, 1964. Introducing Mr. Jared Garrity, a gentleman of commerce.... Based on an 1873 incident in Alta, Utah in which a man of commerce arrived in town and offered to raise the dead. The townsfolk raised money to persuade him to leave. #WyrdWednesday

“For God's sake! -- quick! -- quick! -- put me to sleep -- or, quick! -- waken me! -- quick! -- I say to you that I am dead!"

“Edgar Allan Poe “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” (1845)

🎨 Byam Shaw (1909)

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Before the cape came the Slavic upir.
A suicide or the first plague victim might rise and waste away its own kin. Unearth it. Stake it. Burn it.

“Vampire” entered English in the 1700s.

📖 Paul Barber, Vampires, Burial, and Death.
#Vampire #Slaviclore

🎨 Vampire by W.Kotarbinski

Today I’m finishing off Weird Woods

Includes great stories from Edith Nesbit (Man-Size in Marble), E. F. Benson (The Man Who Went Too Far) and Arthur Machen (N)

One tale (An Old Thorn) set on the Wiltshire Downs, is intro’ed as a dark twist on the Glastonbury Thorn legend

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Come, tell tales of the living dead. In Haitian lore, a bokor may bind a soul or body to labour. The Haitian zonbi (zombie) terror is a stolen will, echoing plantation bondage.
In some tales, salt wakes the bound dead.
#Zombie

📖 Alfred Métraux, Voodoo in Haiti
#HaitianFolklore

"Prayers For The Living Dead : A Tragedy Of Mont St. Michel."
The Illustrated London News 4.9.1909.
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#WyrdWednesday Wyrd Wednesday #Celtic: “While you, ye Druids, when the war was done,
To mysteries strange and hateful rites returned:
To you alone ‟tis given the heavenly gods
To know or not to know; secluded groves
Your dwelling-place, and forests far remote.
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A #Draugr is one of the Norse living dead—a #revenant guarding treasure buried with its corpse. With supernatural strength and, in some tales, the power to take animal form, it makes grave-robbing a deadly gamble. 🪙💀

🎨 Jacob Jagoda

#WyrdWednesday #Celtic: “While you, ye Druids, when the war was done,
To mysteries strange and hateful rites returned:
To you alone ‟tis given the heavenly gods
To know or not to know; secluded groves
Your dwelling-place, and forests far remote.
If what ye […]

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“With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase.”

- Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat
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🎨 by John Coulthart

One of the few examples of a walking mummy in Egyptian folklore is when the sorcerer hero Setne breaks into the tomb of Prince Naneferkaptah to steal the magical Book of Thoth. The Book's power lets Naneferkaptah's spirit animate his own corpse to confront the grave robber.
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In the 12th century, William of Newburgh recorded a #revenant at Anantis Castle, often linked to Alnwick. By night, it wandered, spreading pestilence.

Dug from its grave, its corpse was swollen with blood. The living dead… before Dracula. ⚰️

🎨 Felix Ortiz.