Another #WyrdWednesday for the books, Wyrdlings! Thank you so much for all of your folklore, stories, and art about journeys! We have some exciting news next week. Please be on the lookout for our next topic, and we will see you soon!

Folklore says phantom ships sail still. The Flying Dutchman, doomed to roam forever, appears as a glowing omen of storm and death. Mariners feared its sight more than the waves themselves. #WyrdWednesday Art: Albert Pinkham Ryder

The immrama were voyages of saints and heroes into the Otherworld. Some ships found islands of joy, others of terror - seas as thresholds between life and death. #WyrdWednesday

#WyrdWednesday Since ancient times there has been the idea of a river symbolising the passage of time, and the concept of life being a journey. It falls on Charon to ferry the souls of the dead across the river Styx, from this world to the underworld.

#WyrdWednesday: The gateways to the #Celtic #Otherworld were usually in burial mounds, wells, lakes, beyond or under the "ninth wave" (= the sea). 1/2

1/7 Odysseus was a hero of the Trojan war who had a 20 year journey to get home to his rightful place as ruler of Ithica and husband of Penelope. https://t.co/7pBPgiMslJ #WyrdWednesday #art #homedecor #mythology #vintage #illustration #giftidea

In "Gulliver's Travels", Gulliver encountered many inventors with foolish inventions on Balnibarbi Island, including a device for randomly creating sentences so that even people with no talent can write books. Thus predicting generative AI several centuries early. #WyrdWednesday

The Arctic itself is a haunted expanse. Franklin’s doomed expedition sought the Northwest Passage, but ice and scurvy swallowed the crew. Their ghosts linger in stories and naval lore alike. #WyrdWednesday

#WyrdWednesday “El Sombrerón” es una figura del folclore guatemalteco y mexicano. Es un hombre de baja estatura, de ojos brillantes, vestido de negro y con un gran sombrero. Es conocido por trenzar las crines y colas de caballos y mulas, y a veces el cabello de mujeres jóvenes.

#WyrdWednesday In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. – Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy The story of the soul’s journey towards God descending into hell, through purgatory & its eventual ascent to paradise

#WyrdWednesday ⚔️ #JasonandtheArgonauts 💀 Jason and the Argonauts (Greek Mythology from the Argonautica)Apollonius Rhodius's epic follows Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece from distant Colchis, assembling heroes on the prophetic ship Argo for a voyage through treacherous

Thanks to @RGeirsson for the last round! @PrairieBones is ready for your Wyrd and scary odysseys on today's #WyrdWednesday

In poetry, Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner makes the sea a haunted stage. Albatrosses, curses, ghostly crews; it is a voyage where the unknown punishes hubris. #WyrdWednesday Art: Gustave Doré

🌿✨ On this #WyrdWednesday, we celebrate Tír na nÓg—the Irish Land of Youth—where eternal happiness and youth are promised beyond the seas. In the tale of Oisín and Niamh, the legendary poet and warrior of the Fianna is lured by Niamh of the Golden Hair, a princess of the

Today's #WyrdWednesday themes: perilous journeys, eerie expeditions, and voyages into the unknown. "Ulyssus and the Sirens", Carl Theodor von Blaas.

#WyrdWednesday 💀⛵️ 👻 🚢👹 Naglfar is a mythical ship from Norse mythology, made from the fingernails and toenails of the dead, that will sail with an army of monsters and giants to fight the gods during Ragnarök, the prophesied end of the world. 💀 Its large size and

#WyrdWednesday #Celtic: `Seven months High King Cormac had gone out from Tara to search for his wife and children, but it seemed to him that he had been absent in the #Otherworld but for the space of a single day and night.` 1/2

"The Vikings are thought to have brought their skogkatts ("forest cats") with them on their travels, with some experts believing that the American Maine Coon is a descendant of the Norwegian Forest Cat " ~William Morris Tile #wyrdwednesday #catlore

"Far over the misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away ere break of day To seek our long-forgotten gold." #Tolkien's complete poem of journey and quest from #TheHobbit, set to music with a 20-minute montage. #WyrdWednesday

The 3rd cen. BC Greek epic poem "The Argonautica" by Apollonius Rhodius charts the mythic voyage of "Jason and the Argonauts" which inspired the 1963 epic fantasy adventure film of the same name. (Original working title: Jason and the Golden Fleece). #WyrdWednesday @WyrdWednesday