First recorded in 156, China's most popular origin myth says the universe was born of a cosmic egg, and from that egg was born Pangu, a perfect oneness of yin and yang. It was he who separated heaven from earth, yin from yang, setting the world in motion. #WyrdWednesday

Basilisks are the King of Serpents, small but deadly, able to kill with a glance and so venomous a trail follows its slithering path. Made by cockerel hatching a snake or toad egg, it is a strange chimera. #WyrdWednesday

A Welsh method to see if fairies have replaced your child with a changeling is to hollow out an egg shell and cook a meal in it. The shocked changeling will say, "I have seen the acorn before the oak but never the likes of this before." Then, it will often vanish. 🎨P. J. Lynch #WyrdWednesday

Wyrdlings! Of course it’s all about eggs in the week before Easter, so we give you: “World Emergence, Resurrection, Egg-and-Spoon Race – of Good and Bad Eggs!” as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic. Come and put all your story eggs in our wyrd & wynderful Easter basket!

The big defining test of our time: Do you think Palestinian life has equal worth? Our politicians and media outlets don't even pretend to pass it.

Dagonet the Fool is today portrayed as the cowardly court jester of Arthur, but once the title of Fool marked him as a dangerous, dim-witted, and violent knight very loyal to Arthur and the Round Table, but unpredictable. #FairytaleTuesday

The realization that the year was not exactly 365 days proved quite a headache for Western astrologers, and the switch from Julian to Gregorian calendars created a shift from observation-based astrology to a more numbers-centric astrology. #MythologyMonday

Her grin knowing how this arrest looks (Published in The Atlantic today)

8 Million Americans turned out to make No Kings 3 the biggest protest in our history. We did it because we love our country. We are committed to protect it from those who would do it harm. 🇺🇸 IM🍑MENT NOW!!!!! (Orange you glad I didn't mention his name? 🍊 🤮) #PresidementiaBelongsBehindBars

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Sunday roasts are cherished in the land of The Wind in the Willows…what’s everyone having for dinner…any cooking tips?

The ancient Greeks note the Enarees among the Scythians, shaman who were often male but dressed and acted feminine. Many shamanic cultures of Central and Northern Eurasia have similar shamanic traditions, as shamans are the gatekeepers of in-between places. #FolkloreSunday

Freyja is one of the great teachers of Norse myth, teaching not only Odin the feminine art of seidr, magic and divination, but also mortals who would learn the art; she and her brother also were givers of agricultural secrets. #FolkloreSunday

One of the major symbols of modern neopagan religions is the triple moon, showing the moon in three phases: waxing crescent, full moon, and waning crescent. Connected to feminine energy, ever-changing, many things all at once. #FolkloreSunday 🖼: L. Perry

Medieval Irish scholars categorized monsters and spirits as morrígna, a class of phantom. Most prominent was the banshee, or "fairy-woman," whose scream foretold death in the great families. In Old Irish this title belonged to the Morrigan, the Phantom Queen. #PhantomsFriday

Outside Melbourne's Young & Jackson Hotel & Pub, a beautiful young woman can sometimes be seen leaning against a light pole. Approach her at your peril: the closer you get, the more obvious the signs her ghostly throat has been slit, ear to ear. #PhantomsFriday

Called Mushuk Nina by the Quichua of Ecuador, this Spring Equinox Festival represents the beginning of the Andean New Year, a time for purification and renewal, time to plant seeds for the future, both physically and spiritually. #LegendaryWednesday

After Dumuzid was sent to the Underworld for not mourning his wife Innana's death, his sister and mother, goddesses of plants and things that grow, came to her and begged her to retrieve him: for nothing could grow while Dumuzid was beneath the earth. #WyrdWednesday

At the spring equinox, Teotihuacán swells with visitors, coming to seek the old Aztec gods for health and vitality. This is an attempt to honor indigenous ancestors and their astronomical prowess: many buildings line up with the equinox exactly. #LegendaryWednesday

While her reputation is a much disputed point, Lucrezia Borgia is thought to have been a prolific poisoner, helped by her education of herbs and plants. She used this to help end threats to the powerful Borgia family. #WyrdWednesday 🖼: D.G. Rossetti

Loughcrew Cairns' T-cairn lines up with the spring equinox, much as Newgrange at Bru na Boinne lines up with the winter solstice. Many suggest the Irish may have had a spring equinox festival, potentially informing the timing of St. Patrick's Day #LegendaryWednesday 📷: R. Hurson

Devil's Bit Scabious is called that because the Devil, envious of the perfection of the plant, stole part of the roots and gave it a stem that abruptly comes to an end. Spite drives much of the Devil's actions in folklore, it seems. #WyrdWednesday

💫Join me #Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday where the theme is the #SpringEquinox. With your solstice legends, springtide tales, Ostara traditions, blackberry-winter art, & Vernal deities. Give me your #legend #folklore #photo #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #mythology #art💫

Wyrdlings! For Novalis’ birthday on #WyrdWednesday and in honour of his Blue Flower of Romanticism, we give you: “Mysterious, Mythical and Magical Plants” as this week’s topic. Come and share tales of mandragoras, world-ashs and all the flowers of evil you can think of!

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In some parts of China, if you hang an iris above your door in late spring, it will not let evil enter that place. A symbol of spring and thus renewal and life, evil spirits are repelled. Eating the iris will help to prolong life, goes ancient flower lore. #FairytaleTuesday

Fifteen days after the spring equinox, families in China head to the family tombs with brooms, incense, and stories of their ancestors. Qingming is Tomb-Sweeping Day, a day of family reverence and reflection each spring honoring the ancestors. #FairyTaleTuesday

Spring is the time of royal snails, which in the ancient past meant it would have been time to cultivate and begin using snail shells for Tyrian purple dyes: the famous purple dyes of royalty trace their origins back to certain snails along the Levant. #FairytaleTuesday

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We know cats were domesticated by 7500 BCE because of the first known grave of a cat: on Cyprus, an eight month old cat is buried not far from its owner. Notably, cats aren't native to Cyprus, so it must have been brought by prehistoric sailors. #MythologyMonday

In the ancient Near East from the time of Assyria and Babylon onward, dogs were associated with protective magic and spellcraft, associated with the goddess of healing Ninisina. Dog is man, and god's, best friend, it seems. #MythologyMonday

In perhaps the most relatable tale of a religious prophet ever, Muhammad's adoration of cats was such that he supposedly said, "I would rather do without my own cloak than disturb [a cat] sleeping upon it." His favorite cat's name was Muezza. #MythologyMonday

The Egyptian fertility god Hapi, despite being considered male, was portrayed as an androgynous figure with feminine breasts, a large stomach, and a fake ceremonial beard. He was said to bring a rich harvest with the annual flooding of the Nile, which nourished the soil. #MythologyMonday

Disembodied footsteps, a phantom black dog with a serious attitude problem, and the Dun Cow in the courtyard - all to be found at the end of a ley line. My post for the Our Warwickshire blog on the folklore of Warwick Castle👇 www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/arti...

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. "dee-yoo-kwah-kaw-yah-dee"

“Contemplating my companion.” (G. J. Whyte-Melville "Bones and I or The Skeleton at Home") 🎨 A. Forestier (1868) #PhantomsFriday #BookSky #BookIllustration

Woman with two boys and a ‘female spirit’. A particularly striking portrait photograph of a woman with two boys, possibly taken by William Hope (1863-1933) circa 1920. 📸 from the Science Museum Group Collection #PhantomsFriday

Shucks and the Wild Hunt roam the folk landscape of Dartmoor; Dewer, a Wisht huntsman is said to chase people up to the highest point in the area around Dewerstone Woods until they fall to their death… #PhantomsFriday

'What! not yet laid, poor ghost!' cried the Englishman, while we started back in affright. 'Home to thy grave. Thou hast appeared what thou wert not; now thou wilt become what thou didst but seem.' – A hoax ghost is found in the chimney in F. Schiller's The Ghost-Seer 1787–1789 #PhantomsFriday

“All things fade at the shore, beneath the black water. Where the Nøkk sings softly, a song not meant for air, the lake does not answer back. Only those tangled in silent reeds remember what lies below and know the water does not belong to us” - Aconite #dungeonsnyth #printmaking

#RenéGruau Galerie Tallien, (1976)

Elfwisk – a Hookland dialect word for fate. While it can be translated as god-wished, it's more often used to imply that ill or fortunate happenstances in a person’s life are being manipulated by unseen forces of a somewhat lower order, often for no reason other than their fierce merriment. #WOTD

Let’s not return to the “animation is for kids” fallacy, please. maggiemcneill.com/2026/03/16/p...

In the Irish folktale "The Haunted Cellar," a clurichaun—a drunker, more sinister counterpart to the leprechaun—breaks into an Irish lord's wine cellar, where he gets drunk and plays pranks on the servants. He's described as a six-inch man with a red and purple nose. #FairyTaleTuesday

Sick as a dog. Probably going to stop posting until this weekend or maybe next Monday. I'll reshare if I can.

Irish merfolk, called merrows, wear a magic red hat, hood, or cloak (depending on the translation) called a cohuleen druith, which enables them to breathe underwater. If this item is lost or stolen while they're on land, they can't return to the ocean. #MythologyMonday

Dis Pater is a Roman god of the underworld, later absorbed into the cult of Pluto. His name means "Rich Father," and he is a god of rich land, both above and below: he is an agricultural god, and a god of gems, mines, and gold. #MythologyMonday 🖼️: S. Galeotti

The Puyang burial, from China's Yangshao culture (c.5000-3000 BCE), sees a man buried with two formations made of stones, one a serpentine dragon, the other a tiger. It is among the earliest Neolithic depictions of a dragon. #MythologyMonday