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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 3d

An echtra ("adventure") is an Old Irish tale of a journey into the Otherworld set in pagan times. An immram ("voyage") is a similar Old Irish tale, but is set in Christian times and the Otherworldly journey is usually by sea. Both involve meeting supernatural beings.
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Wyrd Wednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social · 3d

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!

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 3d

In the 1657 satirical French novel The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon and Sun, the narrator observes that morning dew found on grass is sucked up by the sun, so he attempts space travel by bottling the dew and using the bottles to fly. (It doesn't work.) #WyrdWednesday

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 3d

During their Mount Everest expedition in 1975, Dougal Haston and Doug Scott befriended a ghostly “third climber” who helped them survive the journey and guided them down an uncharted path. Thanks to this encouraging presence, they reached the summit safely. #WyrdWednesday

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 3d

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

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DreamSwarm @dreamswarm.bsky.social · 3d

George Meliere’s 1902 silent and fun sci fi classic ‘Voyage dans la Lune’
Strange spaceships and strange aliens on a strange journey into the unknown
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Julie Shiel @forgottenbeauty.bsky.social · 3d

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. www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/4434... #WyrdWednesday #art #homedecor #mythology #vintage #illustration #giftidea

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Lynne S @ghirlandia.bsky.social · 3d

‘Hera has sent us a pilot; let us follow the cunning bird’

How the Argonauts sailed to Colchis

Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales
1898 #wyrdwednesday

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 3d

#WyrdWednesday
King Arthur's quest was in search of the magical Cauldron of Dyrnwch - folklore said that the cauldron would only boil to provide food for the brave, it would never boil for those who were cowardly.

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · Jun 15

#BookWormSat
"Tri lloneit prytwen yd aetham ni idi
Nam seith ny dyrreith ogaer sidi."
[Three fulnesses of Prydwen we went into it.
Except seven none rose up from the Fortress of the Mound"]

Arthur leads 3 boatloads of men into the Underworld, from which only 7 men returned.
from Preiddeu Annwn

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 3d

In “Gulliver’s Travels" by Jonathan Swift, 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.
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A map of the island of Balnibarbi, from "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift.

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Wyrd Wednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks to @cwreeve.bsky.social for the last round!

@prairiebones.bsky.social is ready for your Wyrd and scary odysseys on today's #WyrdWednesday

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 3d

Sir Gawain must journey through the 'wyldrenesse of Wyrale' to fulfil his quest - the beheading contest with the Green Knight: "Sometimes he warred with dragons & with wolves/sometimes with the crag haunting woodwose/with bears, bulls & boars, or pursued by giants across the fells" #WyrdWednesday

Image of knights in blood red cloaks, a black cloaked Mari and scarlet swords suspended from the ceiling. The Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead (2024). 'Into the Wyld' was an exhibition exploring the legacy of the medieval poem 'Gawain and the Green Knight' Gawain journeys through the wilderness of the Wirral so the topography of the north west was a major theme of the collaborative exhibition and day long conference

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Signe Maene @signemaene.com · 3d

1/3 According to a Flemish folktale, bokkenrijders or buckriders, who were said to be thieves, ghosts, or sometimes even witches, and rode through the sky on the backs of goats in Flanders and the Netherlands, had stolen the Queen's laundry.

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Art from Affiche: "De Bokkenrijder of het skelet." Opdrachtgever: Het Hollandsch Tooneel. Shows a buckrider riding through the sky. Castle in the far distance. Clouds.

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 3d

Psyche and Cerberus
by Edmund Dulac
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Illustration depicting Psyche encountering Cerberus, the guardian of the underworld, a three headed dog with fiery eyes and snakes on his back. Psyche is clutching the honey cakes that she has brought to throw to Cerberus as a distraction.

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Mina Stillwater @minastillwater.bsky.social · 3d

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John Q. Adam (6th US president) approved a mission to investigate the hollow earth theory, due to Army officer, John Cleves Symmes, Jr.’s idea “that there were openings thousands of miles wide at the Earth’s poles through which one could venture inside our planet”

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 3d

Thor took a short voyage with Tyr's father Hymir, meant to be a fishing expedition, but the Thunderer knew better. He eschewed gentle seas to fish to the harsh churning waves and used an ox head for bait: he caught Jormungandr the World Serpent, who got away. #WyrdWednesday

An unknown artist's depiction of the final battle between Thor and Jormungandr, showing Thor leaping with a massive, too-long instead of too short handled Mjolnir from a stormy mist into the Midgard Serpent, a massive snake with pointy teeth and a long tongue, with horns all over the serpent's back.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 3d

Bran's Voyage was to find the Otherworld, so moved by a song was he. He sailed west with three companies, meeting Mannanan mac Lir, losing a crewmember to the Isle of Joy, and finally landing on the Isle of Women, where one year is countless decades. #WyrdWednesday

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Artist energy69's depiction of the Voyage of Bran, showing in very stylized form a galley full of oars and a man hailing a coming chariot on a blue, green, and orange sea, the man within shirtless and looking like Leonidas from 300: he is Manannan macLir, and two other horses run on the other side of the ship, wildly greeting the voyagers. In the far distance, the silver light of Tir na nOg can be seen and a mountain beyond; the sun is setting around Mannanan's head.

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The FolkLore Press @thefolklorepress.bsky.social · 3d

"The natives over there are cannibals. They eat liars with the same enthusiasm as they eat honest men" ~ Captain Nemo

#WyrdWednesday #conceptart #film

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 1954
Dir. Richard Fleischer

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 3d

Clotilde Graves/"Richard Dehan"'s story "The Great Beast of Kafue" (1917) tells of a perilous journey to southern Africa to find the last surviving brontosaurus. #WyrdWednesday

Color illustration by Charles R. Knight of a brontosaurus submerged in water in the foreground. Another lighter-colored brontosaurus is approaching the water in the background.

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Putri Prihatini @putriprihatini.bsky.social · 3d

In Palestinian folktale "The Golden Pail," a prince undertook a quest after his father said, "prove yourself worthy of the throne through hardships." With Ballan, a djinn horse, he overcame grueling feats, escaped murder, and outwitted evil minister, earning skills to be a good ruler.
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A photo of a book titled Speak Bird, Speak Again, opened on pages 86 and 87, with the title of the story The Golden Pail on the top right of the page.

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 3d

#WyrdWednesday The voyage of the Ice Viking, or, Entombed in an Iceberg for Centuries
Drifting for ten centuries through the uncharted seas north of the Arctic Circle, the body of a Viking king a thousand years old has been returned at last to civilization.
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 3d

See Rome discover’d, Italy made playne,
The Roman Library, a golden gaine:
Hunns old Parthenope, with Venice met,
And strong Brundusium, in Ottranto set…

—from the RARE ADVENTURES & PAINEFULL PEREGRINATIONS of William Lithgow, AKA “Lugless Will” (c.1582–c.1645)
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TITLE PAGE:

The Totall Discourse,
Of the Rare Aduentures, and painefull
Peregrinations of long nineteene Yeares Trauayles,
from scotland, to the most Famous
Kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and
AFFRICA.

Perfited by three deare bought Voyages,
in surueighing of Forty eight Kingdomes ancient
and Moderne; twenty one Rei-publickes, ten
absolute Principalities, with two
hundred Ilands.

The particular Names whereof, are Described
in each Argument of the ten Diuisions of this
History: And it also diuided in
Three Bookes; two whereof, neuer
heretofore Published.

Wherein is Contayned, an exact Relation, of the
Lawes, Religion, Policies, and Gouernment of all
their Princes, Potentates, and People.

Together with the grieuous Tortures he suffered, by the
Inquisition of Malaga in spaine, his
miraculous Discouery and Deliuery
thence: And of his last and late
Returne from the Northerne Iles

Cælum non Animum.

BY William Lithgovv.

Imprinted at London by Nicholas Okes, and are to be sold by
Nicholas Fussell and Humphery Mosley at their shops in
Pauls Church yard, at the Ball, and the white
Lyon. 1632.

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