Thank you for a great #WyrdWednesday, Wyrdlings! We loved all of your sea shanties and other ocean tales.

Our next topic will be announce on Monday. Have a great week!

#SpookySunday tomorrow so please do feel free to join the feed. Use the hashtag to contribute posts on all things ghostly: #folklore, fiction, poetry, art, info on haunted locations and #ghosts in popular culture. I'm looking forward to another day of phantom fun!
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‘The feather from the ravens breast
 Falls on the stubble lea
The acorns near the old crows nest
Fall pattering down the tree’ ~ Autumn, John Clare. 🍂

Tomorrow’s #BookWormSat embraces the season with autumn in literature. Bring all your fallen leaves and join us. 🍁

Wyrdlings!

It's the time, the bells have rung and the Mothers of the Wyrd return to their graves now!

Thank you all for the wynderfully ghastly tales you shared with us today and fret not, we'll raise again with a new spooky #WyrdWednesday topic Monday next!

Everyone remembers Gwen Stacy's death in The Amazing Spider-Man #121, but in The Amazing Spider-Man #144 she 'returned', in a Gerry Conway written tale. With a cover by Gil Kane and John Romita, and the last panel reveal by Ross Andru, Frank Giacoia and Dave Hunt.
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Rhode Island's Mercy Brown died of tuberculosis in 1892. When her body was exhumed, relatives interpreted its preservation as evidence she was harming her sick brother. Her heart and liver were burned, and the ashes were reportedly used in a remedy for him. #WyrdWednesday

The Wounded Vampire
by Wilhelm Kotarbinski

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“…but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady Madeline of Usher.”

(Edgar Allan Poe “The Fall of the House of Usher”, 1839)

🎨 Harry Clarke

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"A Corpse Awakening : Ligeia Risen From Her Bed Of Death."
The Illustrated London News 18.12.1909.
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“Sometimes they come back”
The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs (1902)
An elderly couple possess a talisman that will grant three wishes. They are warned there will be dire consequences if they use it. Foolishly they wish for money & receive it as compensation for the death of their son.

The modern movie zombie owes an enormous debt to George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead from 1968. Curiously, the film itself generally calls its creatures "ghouls," not zombies. Audiences supplied the name that would redefine the monster. #WyrdWednesday

Art: George Pfau

"I am thy father's spirit, doomed for a certain time to walk the night." William Shakespeare, Hamlet. (Art by William Blake) #WyrdWednesday #folklore #Shakespeare #literature #art #gothic #theatre

#WyrdWednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social #Celtic: “… for the belief of Pythagoras prevails among them, that the souls of men are immortal and that after a prescribed number of years they commence upon a new life, the soul entering into another body”. (Diodorus V.28:5-6)
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"How fares my child, how fares my roe?
This time I come, then never more."

Then the King could not restrain himself; he sprang towards her, and said, "You can be none other than my dear wife."

(Grimm)

🎨 Franz Stassen

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At Samhain it is believed that the dead return home, coming to seek hospitality and see how the living have gotten on. This leads to happy reunions at times, while in other cases, the disappointed dead bring the fright we associate with Halloween today. #WyrdWednesday

#WyrdWednesday The idea that people with tuberculosis could be cured by eating the heart/ashes of a "vampire" who had died of the disease was found in New England. Here is a rare, late example of this remedy for "The White Death" from Pennsylvania.
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Looking for a spooky Halloween read? My new book Atlas Gothica explores 50 gothic destinations around the world, including vampiric graveyards, magical museums, mummy-stuffed catacombs & eerie libraries. Grab it here: mybook.to/atlasgothica #folklore #gothic #history #Halloween #weird #wyrdwednesday

The film Curse of the Undead (1959) is a black and white Western horror film about a mysterious gunslinger-for-hire who's secretly a vampire. A preacher goes up against the vampire to protect the small Old West town he's terrorizing. #WyrdWednesday

In New England's 18th- and 19th-century vampire panics, families sometimes exhumed relatives after tuberculosis struck a household. A corpse showing unexpectedly little decomposition might be blamed for draining life from surviving family members. #WyrdWednesday

In the American South, birds are connected to angels. Many believe feathers found on the ground are signs angels have visited. The dead return as angels, and when a cardinal visits you, it is the spirit of the dead coming to visit you. #WyrdWednesday