Lady Nak of Phra Khanong is Thailand's most famous ghost, a vengeful spirit who sought revenge on her neighbors after they revealed she was a ghost to her husband. Put in a jar and thrown in the canal, if the jar is ever opened, she will terrorize Thailand again. #PhantomsFriday

The Centurions of Brampton Road in Cumbria left safety to find out what was making that strange gurgling noise, and never returned. Two thousand years later, it's said on dark, foggy nights, you can hear the sound of Roman soldiers marching, looking for home. #PhantomsFriday

“The moment her shadowy form met his view He gave vent to a sort of a lengthened “Bo-o—ho-o!”— With a countenance Keeley alone could put on, Made one grasshopper spring to the door—and was gone!” (Richard Harris Barham “The Ingoldsby Legends”) 🎨 Arthur Rackham (1898) #PhantomsFriday #booksky

Sir George Blount, of Kinlet, #Shropshire, was so angry at his daughter marrying a man he disliked, he vowed to haunt her after his death. And he did so, on one occasion charging into the Hall on his spectral horse and riding across the table when the family were at dinner. #PhantomsFriday #folklore

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

As an aside to the below piece of intriguing folklore, it's mind-blowing, and not in a good way, imo, that the image used in the post is considered "Adult Content". I understand why an algorithm may think so, but even so it is kinda ridiculous. YMMV, of course.

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Wouldn't be a #WyrdWednesday without Necropants! Need money? Icelandic tradition would advise (though I would not) you dig up a dead man and make from his skin Nábrók, Death Underpants. They're not stylish, but when you've got money, you set the style, right?

Scandinavian mermaids, called havfrue, sjörå, and other names, are harbingers of storms and are seen as fatal omens, sometimes even kidnapping sailors: better to avoid them at all costs, and avert ye eyes. #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday 🖼️: E. Jerichau-Baumann

Wyrdlings! Swedish storyteller Elsa Beskow turns 152 this week, reason enough to give you: “Sabaton, Snorri, Storsjöodjuret - Strange Scandi Stories!” as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic! Come, tell tales, of elks, sea rovers and Nordic Noire!

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

I mean we all know what happened to Saint Valentine, right?

Why is chocolate, a New World commodity, associated with Valentine's Day? Mesoamericans included chocolate in their marriage ceremony and believed it to be an aphrodisiac; whether Cadbury knew that when in 1868 they marketed the first heart-shaped box is unknown #FairytaleTuesday

Valentine's Day was an unremarkable saint day until the High Middle Ages, when bird-watchers remarked that bird breeding season began in mid-February, and Valentine's Day was chosen: birds remain a key motif of this day for love birds. #FairytaleTuesday

The tale "Julnar of the Sea" tells of a Persian king who falls in love with new concubine, who's described as having long black tresses and a face as beautiful as the moon. The concubine, Julnar, reveals she's a mermaid princess from an underwater kingdom. #FairyTaleTuesday

Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable

"Ancient 3,500-year-old statue stolen from Luxor during Arab Spring returned to Egypt" nltimes.nl/2026/02/06/a...

The messenger of the gods is the morepork, an owl of Aotearoa, flying spiritual highways and whose path is an act of divine messaging. Follow the path of the morepork, and you will know the will of the gods. #MythologyMonday 🖼️: J. I. Duque

La Lechuza is a white owl who is in fact a witch, appearing as a massive raptor who preys on souls at night from the Rio Grande Valley on down. Any white owl could be her: so beware. #MythologyMonday

Stolas is the boss owl, a goetic demon and Great Prince of Hell known for his crown, long skinny legs, and knowledge of precious minerals and herbs. He can teach you astronomy, and commands 26 legions of demons. Look out, Neil deGrasse Tyson. #MythologyMonday 🖼: D. Valeriani

Greetings, Myth Lovers! Join us on February 9 with a #SuperbOwl. Which myths are about an owl or feature owls or another ominous bird of the night? Tell us a myth with an owl or nocturnal bird and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts. Don't forget to […] [Original post on thefolklore.cafe]

Might as well embody our mythos🐍

Most witches' familiars are remnants of the holy animals of pagan deities, now applied to witches who in some cases continued pre-Christian folk magic and religion. Cats, for example, are holy to the Nordic "witch goddess" Freyja, and Egyptian Bast. #FolkloreSunday 🖼: D. Zemba

Can't get it up? Blame a witch! Around the world, witches have been blamed from everything to balms that prevent penises from rising to literally stealing the dicks right off men and putting them in trees. #FolkloreSunday

In India witches are typically told as having their feet on backwards. Yet this cannot be in the case in modern witch trials, which still occur with unfortunate regularity: in 2008, 750 women were lynched in Assam and West Bengal alone #FolkloreSunday 🖼️: N. Bandukwala

A number of similar-looking mushrooms and fungi are known by the name Witch's Butter, famous for their edibility and medicinal purposes that keep one alert and alive while a formal diagnosis can be made. Its appearance means a family has been targeted by a witch. #FolkloreSunday

They have many names: wishing trees, fairy trees, clootie trees. Across the Celtic nations from Scotland down south to Brittany and Cornwall, by May hawthorn and oak trees near holy wells and springs are covered in ribbons, wishing for fertility and health. #FolkloreSunday

They ALL decided that RACISM is not a deal breaker

Why did she throw herself onto the train tracks that day? Was it an accident or suicide? Whatever the case, her body was severed and her upper half haunts train stations of Japan looking for her lower half. Beware the Teke-Teke! #PhantomsFriday 🖼: slimyswampghost

Built on a hot spring, Hot Lake Hotel was once known as the Mayo Clinic of the West as it became the West Coast's premiere health resort. A fire in 1934 destroyed the west wing and left it abandoned: the unhealthy dead and haunted administration are said to remain #PhantomsFriday

Edgar Allen Poe by Alberto Martini (1906). A suitable reminder of #PhantomsFriday tomorrow, when posts on all things #ghost will be most welcome: words, art, #folklore, haunted locations etc etc. Just use the hashtag for reposts! #ghosts #legends #Poe #gothic #booksky #BookChatWeekly #artsky

In the fantasy Western film The Valley of Gwangi (1969), a group of cowboys work for a struggling Wild West rodeo. They capture a live dinosaur, an allosaurus, to put on display for profit. Unsurprisingly, the dinosaur doesn't take well to captivity. #WyrdWednesday

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The wampus cat is an American cryptid, a panther that has no set appearance but in recent times the six-armed form has become quite popular. Some give it an indigenous origin, others with colonists moving across Appalachia. #LegendaryWednesday

Modern historians have suggested that dragons were real to premodern populations due to the presence of fossilized dinosaur bones. Given how close modern dragons look to these bones it is entirely possible, though dragon truthers would very much disagree. #WyrdWednesday

In China, it is the tiger, not the lion, that is king: since the development of Chinese writing, the character for ruler, 王, has been noted on the head of tigers via their stripes. As such, they are regal, masculine creatures in Chinese culture. #LegendaryWednesday

In the depths of the Congo River Basin, a monster dwells: the Mokèlé-mbèmbé is one of Africa's most well-known cryptids, essentially a dinosaur-like creature that lives in the waterways, terrorizing humans and animals alike. #WyrdWednesday

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

💫 Join me Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday where the theme is big cats! With your lioness legends, your panther tales, catamount phenomenons, tiger tales, cheetah art, & feline deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology 💫

Wyrdlings! Open the door, get on the floor - since Neanderthals were discussed for the 1st time 169 yrs ago, we give you: “Wyrd Prehistory & Untimely Dinos” as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic – tell us tales based on the Flintstones to Professor Challenger’s Lost World & Godzilla!

There was a rumour that the Government used to monitor all those stone and wooden sleepers for signs of omenic twitching. If the Department Recording And Measuring Anomalous Statues (DRAMAS), existed once, there’s no official record of it now. – #MattAdams

In addition to their seminal work on fairy tales, the Brothers Grimm were linguists, noting the similarities of language. This led to the suggestion that cultures from India to Ireland share an ancestor: the theory of Indo-European language and culture. #FairyTaleTuesday

The work of the Brothers Grimm is an early example of work that aids nationalism. They wanted to create specifically German stories, making them authentically German: except Germany didn't exist as a nation until 1871. It helped create a single German identity. #FairyTaleTuesday

Prior to 1840, the mother, not stepmother, of Hansel and Gretel is the villain who forces her husband to leave the children in the woods, but the Brothers Grimm sanitized the tale, for how could a biological mother do such a thing? Most versions default to that. #FairytaleTuesday

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Well that’s just interesting tbh

Stolen gems from Hindu idols are a common trope in cursed jewelry stories. The Hope Diamond came from a statue, the Black Orlov Diamond from a statue of Brahma specifically, and the Delhi Purple Sapphire from a shrine of Indra. Maybe colonists shouldn't steal? #MythologyMonday

Bringing the Buddha to the digital era, Bansho-ji is traditional a Buddhist temple in Nagoya which has modernized, using ID cards to identify the dead and giving a modern spin on Japanese cemeteries. The dead's statue lights up in gold when the card is scanned. #MythologyMonday

Sidi Chamharouch is a shrine on Toubkal, Morocco's highest peak. There dwells the King of Djinn, considered by many to be a good Djinn, devout and wise: but Toubkhal is his tomb, yet still he grants blessings to the faithful. Many believe he was a pagan deity. #MythologyMonday