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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.
The larger grass known as Job's tears, on account of its glossy, rounded grains, which the Cherokee children
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.
The larger grass known as Job's tears, on account of its glossy, rounded grains, which the Cherokee children
January 16, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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.
The larger grass known as Job's tears, on account of its glossy, rounded grains, which the Cherokee children
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.
The larger grass known as Job's tears, on account of its glossy, rounded grains, which the Cherokee children
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"[Shehrzad]... had read many books and histories and chronicles of ancient kings and stories of people of old time; it is said indeed that she had collected a thousand books... Moreover, she had read books of science and medicine."
—The Arabian Nights, 1909 translation
#BookologyThursday
—The Arabian Nights, 1909 translation
#BookologyThursday
January 15, 2026 at 1:04 AM
"[Shehrzad]... had read many books and histories and chronicles of ancient kings and stories of people of old time; it is said indeed that she had collected a thousand books... Moreover, she had read books of science and medicine."
—The Arabian Nights, 1909 translation
#BookologyThursday
—The Arabian Nights, 1909 translation
#BookologyThursday
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Yggdrasil the World Tree is full of life, but none more colorful than Ratatoskr the Giant Red Squirrel. He climbs up and down the tree, spreading mocking rumors and lies between the eagle at the top and Nidhogg at the bottom, enraging them. #WyrdWednesday
🖼: Raidho
🖼: Raidho
January 14, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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I love this rendition of Ratatoskr...not your ordinary squirrel
Yggdrasil the World Tree is full of life, but none more colorful than Ratatoskr the Giant Red Squirrel. He climbs up and down the tree, spreading mocking rumors and lies between the eagle at the top and Nidhogg at the bottom, enraging them. #WyrdWednesday
🖼: Raidho
🖼: Raidho
January 14, 2026 at 9:12 PM
I love this rendition of Ratatoskr...not your ordinary squirrel
The Chinese version of Thai Nang Tani, Chinese Banana Ghosts fulfill promises when summoned, but ask for a favor in return. If the favor is not returned, the ghost is freed from the banana tree and is free to haunt the fool who betrayed them. #LegendaryWednesday
January 14, 2026 at 6:32 PM
The Chinese version of Thai Nang Tani, Chinese Banana Ghosts fulfill promises when summoned, but ask for a favor in return. If the favor is not returned, the ghost is freed from the banana tree and is free to haunt the fool who betrayed them. #LegendaryWednesday
Yggdrasil the World Tree is full of life, but none more colorful than Ratatoskr the Giant Red Squirrel. He climbs up and down the tree, spreading mocking rumors and lies between the eagle at the top and Nidhogg at the bottom, enraging them. #WyrdWednesday
🖼: Raidho
🖼: Raidho
January 14, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Yggdrasil the World Tree is full of life, but none more colorful than Ratatoskr the Giant Red Squirrel. He climbs up and down the tree, spreading mocking rumors and lies between the eagle at the top and Nidhogg at the bottom, enraging them. #WyrdWednesday
🖼: Raidho
🖼: Raidho
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💫 Join me Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday where the theme is the forest! With your dark forest legends, your lost in the woods traditions, jungle tales, rainforest art, & woodland deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology 💫
January 12, 2026 at 8:17 PM
💫 Join me Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday where the theme is the forest! With your dark forest legends, your lost in the woods traditions, jungle tales, rainforest art, & woodland deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology 💫
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Wyrdlings!
"But I like animals better than the best people," said Doctor Dolittle & since it’s his creator Hugh Lofting's 140th birthday, falling on the Feast of the Ass – yes, that was a thing in the Middle Ages – it’s:
“Talking Animals!”
as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic.
Heehaw!
"But I like animals better than the best people," said Doctor Dolittle & since it’s his creator Hugh Lofting's 140th birthday, falling on the Feast of the Ass – yes, that was a thing in the Middle Ages – it’s:
“Talking Animals!”
as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic.
Heehaw!
January 12, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Wyrdlings!
"But I like animals better than the best people," said Doctor Dolittle & since it’s his creator Hugh Lofting's 140th birthday, falling on the Feast of the Ass – yes, that was a thing in the Middle Ages – it’s:
“Talking Animals!”
as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic.
Heehaw!
"But I like animals better than the best people," said Doctor Dolittle & since it’s his creator Hugh Lofting's 140th birthday, falling on the Feast of the Ass – yes, that was a thing in the Middle Ages – it’s:
“Talking Animals!”
as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic.
Heehaw!
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In changeling folklore, a common reason given as to why spirits like fairies and trolls take children is because they cannot have children of their own: thus human children are needed to create more such creatures. Beware what they leave behind. #FairyTaleTuesday
🖼️: J. Bauer
🖼️: J. Bauer
January 13, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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In the Syrian tale "Sheikh of the Lamps," an Ifrit—a djinn associated with fire—magically impregnates a young woman with a beautiful daughter. Fifteen years later, the daughter loses her anklet in a river. A prince finds it, tracks her down, and marries her. #FairyTaleTuesday
January 13, 2026 at 2:21 AM
In the Syrian tale "Sheikh of the Lamps," an Ifrit—a djinn associated with fire—magically impregnates a young woman with a beautiful daughter. Fifteen years later, the daughter loses her anklet in a river. A prince finds it, tracks her down, and marries her. #FairyTaleTuesday
In changeling folklore, a common reason given as to why spirits like fairies and trolls take children is because they cannot have children of their own: thus human children are needed to create more such creatures. Beware what they leave behind. #FairyTaleTuesday
🖼️: J. Bauer
🖼️: J. Bauer
January 13, 2026 at 1:50 PM
In changeling folklore, a common reason given as to why spirits like fairies and trolls take children is because they cannot have children of their own: thus human children are needed to create more such creatures. Beware what they leave behind. #FairyTaleTuesday
🖼️: J. Bauer
🖼️: J. Bauer
He is Lancelot du Lac, Lancelot of the Lake: carried off by fairies as his father's kingdom burns, Lancelot was raised on an enchanted isle, aging faster than a normal child would, and was instilled the blessings of the fairies, thus his name. #FairytaleTuesday
🖼️: H. Pyle
🖼️: H. Pyle
January 13, 2026 at 1:48 PM
He is Lancelot du Lac, Lancelot of the Lake: carried off by fairies as his father's kingdom burns, Lancelot was raised on an enchanted isle, aging faster than a normal child would, and was instilled the blessings of the fairies, thus his name. #FairytaleTuesday
🖼️: H. Pyle
🖼️: H. Pyle
Hailing from the tin and copper mines of Cornwall and Devon and imported to Appalachia are knockers, small dwarf-like fairies who work alongside miners. Grant them a piece of food and they may warn you of impending collapses or help find ore veins. #FairytaleTuesday
🖼: J.B. Monge
🖼: J.B. Monge
January 13, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Hailing from the tin and copper mines of Cornwall and Devon and imported to Appalachia are knockers, small dwarf-like fairies who work alongside miners. Grant them a piece of food and they may warn you of impending collapses or help find ore veins. #FairytaleTuesday
🖼: J.B. Monge
🖼: J.B. Monge
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Im my ALL IN THE FAMILY rewatch, and it’s nuts how much this show remains relevant. Archie Bunker operates on fear. It’s his default setting. Fear that he’s not important, that he won’t get what he wants, that other people are having a better life than him. Carroll O’Connor was a brilliant actor.
January 11, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Im my ALL IN THE FAMILY rewatch, and it’s nuts how much this show remains relevant. Archie Bunker operates on fear. It’s his default setting. Fear that he’s not important, that he won’t get what he wants, that other people are having a better life than him. Carroll O’Connor was a brilliant actor.
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When cruelty becomes normal, compassion looks radical.
January 12, 2026 at 12:50 PM
When cruelty becomes normal, compassion looks radical.
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#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Brân the Blessed led an expedition to retrieve his sister from her imprisonment in Ireland. During this military expedition he suffered a fatal wound from a poisoned spear.
Dying, he instructed his warriors to cut off his head (bsky.brid.gy/r/bsky....).
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Dying, he instructed his warriors to cut off his head (bsky.brid.gy/r/bsky....).
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King of all of Britain, Brân the Blessed was a benevolent giant. When his sister was mistreated by the Irish, he destroyed them all, returning mortally wounded. He had his men remove his head and bury it at Tower Hill in London, keeping watch on invaders. #MythologyMonday
🖼️: Peter Diamond
🖼️: Peter Diamond
January 12, 2026 at 7:08 PM
#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Brân the Blessed led an expedition to retrieve his sister from her imprisonment in Ireland. During this military expedition he suffered a fatal wound from a poisoned spear.
Dying, he instructed his warriors to cut off his head (bsky.brid.gy/r/bsky....).
1/3
Dying, he instructed his warriors to cut off his head (bsky.brid.gy/r/bsky....).
1/3
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Magni, son of the Norse god Thor and the giantess Járnsaxa, is exceptionally strong by god standards, due to being half-giant. When Thor slays the giant Hrungnir and gets trapped under his leg, only Magni, then three days old, can lift the leg to free his father. #MythologyMonday
January 12, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Magni, son of the Norse god Thor and the giantess Járnsaxa, is exceptionally strong by god standards, due to being half-giant. When Thor slays the giant Hrungnir and gets trapped under his leg, only Magni, then three days old, can lift the leg to free his father. #MythologyMonday
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In the myth of the Giant's Causeway—a path across the sea that connects Ireland to Scotland—the epic hero Fionn mac Cumhaill forges the Causeway to track down the giant Benandonner, who has threatened his homeland, only to flee in fear when he sees how enormous the giant is. #MythologyMonday
January 12, 2026 at 2:41 AM
In the myth of the Giant's Causeway—a path across the sea that connects Ireland to Scotland—the epic hero Fionn mac Cumhaill forges the Causeway to track down the giant Benandonner, who has threatened his homeland, only to flee in fear when he sees how enormous the giant is. #MythologyMonday
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In the Greek myth of Talos—first recorded around 700 BC—Zeus, the king of gods, has the blacksmith god Hephaestus build a giant bronze man to protect the island of Crete from invaders. Talos has a tube inside him flowing with ichor, a fluid that gives him life. #MythologyMonday
January 12, 2026 at 2:41 AM
In the Greek myth of Talos—first recorded around 700 BC—Zeus, the king of gods, has the blacksmith god Hephaestus build a giant bronze man to protect the island of Crete from invaders. Talos has a tube inside him flowing with ichor, a fluid that gives him life. #MythologyMonday
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First page of a 1924 article in 'Wide World Magazine' on an old perennial of #cryptozoology. 'Wide World' came from the same publishers as 'The Strand', George Newnes, and in 1942 Pound was appointed its (final) editor.
#seaserpent #cryptid #legends #Fortean #Foteana
#seaserpent #cryptid #legends #Fortean #Foteana
January 12, 2026 at 2:36 PM
First page of a 1924 article in 'Wide World Magazine' on an old perennial of #cryptozoology. 'Wide World' came from the same publishers as 'The Strand', George Newnes, and in 1942 Pound was appointed its (final) editor.
#seaserpent #cryptid #legends #Fortean #Foteana
#seaserpent #cryptid #legends #Fortean #Foteana
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I initially read this as Brian Blessed and thought it was some kind of weird surreal obituary/tribute
King of all of Britain, Brân the Blessed was a benevolent giant. When his sister was mistreated by the Irish, he destroyed them all, returning mortally wounded. He had his men remove his head and bury it at Tower Hill in London, keeping watch on invaders. #MythologyMonday
🖼️: Peter Diamond
🖼️: Peter Diamond
January 12, 2026 at 3:21 PM
I initially read this as Brian Blessed and thought it was some kind of weird surreal obituary/tribute
King of all of Britain, Brân the Blessed was a benevolent giant. When his sister was mistreated by the Irish, he destroyed them all, returning mortally wounded. He had his men remove his head and bury it at Tower Hill in London, keeping watch on invaders. #MythologyMonday
🖼️: Peter Diamond
🖼️: Peter Diamond
January 12, 2026 at 12:23 PM
King of all of Britain, Brân the Blessed was a benevolent giant. When his sister was mistreated by the Irish, he destroyed them all, returning mortally wounded. He had his men remove his head and bury it at Tower Hill in London, keeping watch on invaders. #MythologyMonday
🖼️: Peter Diamond
🖼️: Peter Diamond
Intrepid sailors take shelter in a cave, only to discover it belongs to a massive one-eyed giant! Through ingenuity they escape. This isn't the Odyssey but part of the voyages of Sinbad, one of many Nights borrowed from other cultures. #MythologyMonday
🖼: H.J. Ford
🖼: H.J. Ford
January 12, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Intrepid sailors take shelter in a cave, only to discover it belongs to a massive one-eyed giant! Through ingenuity they escape. This isn't the Odyssey but part of the voyages of Sinbad, one of many Nights borrowed from other cultures. #MythologyMonday
🖼: H.J. Ford
🖼: H.J. Ford
The Dagda is Irish myth's jolly giant, the harper who puts the seasons in order, led his people to Ireland's green shores, whose cauldron of plenty feeds the masses, whose club kills twenty with a swing but revives with a tap. He is the fertile god, the Good God. #MythologyMonday
January 12, 2026 at 12:19 PM
The Dagda is Irish myth's jolly giant, the harper who puts the seasons in order, led his people to Ireland's green shores, whose cauldron of plenty feeds the masses, whose club kills twenty with a swing but revives with a tap. He is the fertile god, the Good God. #MythologyMonday