4/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Wednesday
#WildlifeWednesday
#WombatWednesday
#WhiskersWednesday
#EightiesWednesday
#WednesdayWallpaper
#WednesdayGreen
#WordlessWednesday
#WatercolourWednesday
#WyrdWednesday
#LegendaryWednesday
4 of 8 #WednesdayHashtags
John Mills as Quatermass.
‘Huffity, puffity, Ringstone Round
If you lose your hat it will never be found
So pull your britches right up to your chin
And fasten your cloak with a bright new pin
And when you are ready, then we can begin
Huffity, puffity, puff…’ — Nigel Kneale, ‘Quatermass’ (1979) #WyrdWednesday
For #WyrdWednesday, a couple of pages from 'More Beasts For Worse Children' by Hilaire Belloc, 1897.
#BookChatWeekly #Victorian
“Hooray! That the duchess in the Stern does not know
That my name is Hahnenkikerle!”
#WyrdWednesday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Hahnenkikerle
For reasons known only to themselves, Kinder decided to use a cursed version of Humpty Dumpty spouting gibberish to advertise Kinder Surprise in the 1980s.
Genuinely horrifying stuff.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSVG...
#WyrdWednesday
“He who shall take a pinch of the powder in this snuff-box and say the word ‘Mutabor’ shall be able to transform himself into any kind of animal and understand the creature’s language.”
(Wilhelm Hauff "The Caliph Storck")
🎨 Andrey Babanovsky
#wyrdwednesday
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
Jabberwocky
By Lewis Carroll
#WyrdWednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social
“I am as old
as Bohemian gold,
but I never dared in my life
to brew beer through an eggshell.”
#WyrdWednesday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Frau_Gauden
Spike Milligan in a yellow bustbin.
“Mrs. Dighty in her nightie walking in the dark, trod upon a puppy dog's tail and made the creature bark.
Mrs. Dighty in her nightie let the puppy go, by lifting up her instep and raising her big toe.” ~ Mrs. Dighty, Spike Milligan.
#WyrdWednesday #BookologyThursday
A photograph of Chesterton playing with a little girl. "Viewed from that other side, a bird is a blossom broken loose from its chain of stalk, a man a quadruped begging on its hind legs, a house a gigantesque hat to cover a man from the sun, a chair an apparatus of four wooden legs for a cripple with only two."
"Everything has in fact another side to it, like the moon, the patroness of nonsense."
G. K. Chesterton, the father of Father Brown, in his essay "A Defence of Nonsense" (1902)
#WyrdWednesday #BookologyThursday
#WyrdWednesday #BookologyThursday
'O! My aged Uncle Arly!
Sitting on a heap of Barley
Thro' the silent hours of night,--
Close beside a leafy thicket...'
Not Only Peter Cook... But Also Dudley Moore's wistful, elegiac performance of nonsense poet Edward Lear's verse
youtu.be/HG_n3JVbeEc
"As certain as the sun behind the Downs
And quite as plain to see, the Devil walks."
Original Sin On The Sussex Coast by John Betjeman 1954.
From the street names and Cooch Behar reference this is clearly set in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex.
#WyrdWednesday #BookologyThursday #Bexhill #Sussex #Poem #1950s
Good morning, lil' wyrdlings! Welcome to this week's wynderful #WyrdWednesday / #BookologyThursday crossover!
The theme:
“Absurd Words, Nonsense Poems, and Nursery Rhymes!”
@cwreeve.bsky.social here - SHOW ME SOME WYRD 👻👻
The Mad Hatter declaims to the Dormouse in one of Tenniel's illustrations for 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'.
'Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.'
- The Mad Hatter
#WyrdWednesday #LewisCarroll
Gulliver getting tied up at night by the tiny Lilliputians, in a 1939 animation.
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift gave us Brobdingnagian (giant), Lilliputian (tiny) and Yahoo (let's go with 'uncouth').
(I haven't read it, and for years all my knowledge of the book came from watching a cartoon on the telly, which only included the Lilliputians.)
#WyrdWednesday absurd words
"Gone With The Wind" (1939) infirmary
"In the distance I spied an infirmary train, blood oozing from the carriages. [...]
Patients bandaged and amputated, some down to the digit of a pinky.
"These are poets of old," said a doctor, "mutilated at every wedding, anniversary or baptism speech.""
Journey to Amager (1829)
#WyrdWednesday
#WallsonWednesday #WednesdayWalls
#WatercolourWednesday
#WaterfallWednesday
#WednesdayWindows
#WellsOnWednesday
#WildlifeWednesday
#WindmillWednesday
#WindowsOnWednesday
#WindowsWednesday
#WoodensDay
#WyrdWednesday
The lure of Atlantis edited by Michael Wheatley
3am finish!!: The Lure of Atlantis
Another fun entry in the Tales of the Weird series, with a nice variation of pulp styles
From REH’s Kull, to Clark Ashton Smith, Lovecraft and Verne; there’s also utopias and pseudo-science. All of which I enjoyed
@blpublishing.bsky.social
#wyrdwednesday 🪐📚💙
Join us tomorrow and Thursday for our literary #WyrdWednesday / #BookologyThursday crossover with @bookcat.bsky.social!
🌳🦄🌳Unicorns were believed to live within the undisturbed hearts of deep forests.
#FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreSunday
Hey! Diddle, diddle!
#BookologyThursday is ‘over the moon’ as we team up with #WyrdWednesday for a wynderful collaboration to celebrate Dr Johnson’s famous dictionary with:
"Absurd Words, Nonsense Poems, and Nursery Rhymes"
as this week's joined topic!
Wyrdlings,
271 years ago #OnThisDay, Dr Johnson published his famous dictionary & even if “aardvark” was left out, #BookologyThursday’s BookCat & the Mothers of #WyrdWednesday team up, take the opportunity & give you:
“Absurd Words, Nonsense Poems, and Nursery Rhymes”
as this week’s joined topic!
I love seashells; I have them on my Tarot reading table for querents to hold when they need some reassurance/ comfort/ distraction/ grounding #wyrdwednesday
The witching hour is said to fall in the dead of night, often around midnight, or in the deeper hours between 3 and 4.
It’s a time long tied to folklore, when the boundary between our world and whatever lies beyond is believed to wear thin. 1/
#WitchyWednesday #WyrdWednesday
The Dragon's Eye cave is a secret, abandoned mine shaft that is tucked away under Upholland in Lancashire, England. A small group of urban explorers and neighbors are the only ones who know exactly where it is. The cave can only be reached through a "window in the floor,"
#Dragons #WyrdWednesday 1/
So long, and thanks for all the riddles, Wyrdlings!
Our next #WyrdWednesday topic will be announced on Monday. A big thank-you to everyone who participated today!
The fun doesn't need to end, either! Do consider participating in #BookologyThursday tomorrow. And again on Saturday for #BookWormSat 🫶
#WyrdWednesday
"A house based on a foundation like the skies
A house one has covered with a veil like a secret box
A house set on a base like a goose
One enters it blind,
Leaves it seeing."
Answer: the School
A very early example of a riddle, found on a Sumerian tablet dated around 1800bce.
In 1895, Bridget Cleary was murdered by her husband, Michael. He believed fairies had abducted his real wife and left a changeling in her place, hence the Irish nursery rhyme:
Are you a witch or are you a fairy?
Or are you the wife of Michael Cleary?
#WyrdWednesday
According to Welsh lore, black cats bring good luck. There's even a nursery rhyme about it:
A black cat, I’ve heard it said,
Can charm all ill away,
And keep the house wherein she dwells
From fever’s deadly sway.
#WyrdWednesday
