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That's a wrap for today's eggcelent #WyrdWednesday! Blessing to all who celebrate Easter, and for all of us... we will be in touch on Monday with a new topic. Take care! 🐇🐣
Photo of a limestone sculpture from 5th century BCE that shows Helen of Troy being born, hatching from the egg that Queen Leda laid.
In Greek mythology, Zeus appeared in the form of a swan to Queen Leda of Sparta. As a result, Leda laid two eggs. From one egg hatched Helen and Pollux (demigod children of Zeus), and from the other hatched Clytemnestra and Castor (mortal children of Leda's husband King Tyndareus).
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#WednesdayWins - Cornish egg, basilisk egg, sun egg, or cosmic egg #WyrdWednesday is #April1st Feast of Fools #April foolish day 🤡 Reflects the deliverance of medieval mysteries, hoaxes & pranks according to folklore & legend, custom made in great antiquity 📚 silicasun.wordpress.com 🪺 #silicasun 🥚📗💙
Frontispiece of 'The Were-Wolf' by Clemence Housman, illustrated by her brother Laurence, with a picture showing someone opening the door of a cottage and peering into the gloomy interior.
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Reprint of Clemence Housman's 'The Were-Wolf' illustrated by her brother Laurence.
"Acknowledgement of a Creation Myth: Before the world became the world it was an egg. Inside the egg was dark. The rat nibbled the egg and let the light in. And the world began" - Rat Film (2016)
#WyrdWednesday Art by J Grandville 1840
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Still harvested by a few fishermen in reed nets at Lake Texcoco, Ahuautle are eaten - deep fried - as a delicacy similar to caviar in Mexico ...
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The Aztecs believed Ahuautle - eggs of the Axayácatl fly - to be the food of the gods. They filled the chest cavities of human sacrifices to the fire god Xiuhtecuhtli with the eggs.
Thanks to @wunderkammertales.bsky.social for the last round!
@prairiebones.bsky.social will be here for the remainder of #WyrdWednesday to talk about the folklore of EGGS!
Easter egg; photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `To steal the redbreast's eggs was very unfortunate. The theft made the person a victim of witches or the devil.`
Source: FOLK-LORE AND FOLK-STORIES of Wales by Mary Trevelyan
Easter egg; photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `To steal the redbreast's eggs was very unfortunate. The theft made the person a victim of witches or the devil.`
Source: FOLK-LORE AND FOLK-STORIES of Wales by Mary Trevelyan
Ancient carving depicting a deity with a helmet and a serpent wrapped around them
In Orphic cosmogony, Φάνης (Fanis), aka Πρωτόγονος (Firstborn), was an intersex deity who burst forth from the silver egg of the universe created by Χρόνος (Time).
Their name means "light" or "shine"; appropriate for the deity who gave birth to the universe.
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As this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic is “... of Good and Bad Eggs!” Remember the controversial "Humpty Dumpty" children's rhyme? It may have started life as a riddle, the answer to which was "An egg!" Later, it developed military and political interpretations, which may have contemporary application!
A cracked egg in folklore could be a warning. Maybe something inside was not meant to hatch, or not meant for this world. #WyrdWednesday
Art: Tom Brown
One day a countryman going to the nest of his Goose found an egg all yellow and glittering. He took it home and found to his delight that it was an egg of pure gold.
The Goose & the Golden Egg
Aesop
Don Daily #wyrdwednesday
Easter egg, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `The man who was daring enough to rob an eagle's nest of its eggs could expect to be bereft of repose ever afterwards.`
Source: FOLK-LORE AND FOLK-STORIES of Wales by Mary Trevelyan
Easter egg, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `The man who was daring enough to rob an eagle's nest of its eggs could expect to be bereft of repose ever afterwards.`
Source: FOLK-LORE AND FOLK-STORIES of Wales by Mary Trevelyan
In Cornish folklore, mermaid purses (ray and shark egg sacs) are considered highly magical objects that, when buried on the corner of your property, will protect your family. To find a mermaid purse is said to foretell an impending financial windfall.
art: Harry Clarke #WyrdWednesday
I am the egg man
They are the egg men
I am the walrus
Goo goo g'joob...
Come on, wyrd and wynderful egg people! It's #wyrdwednesday and walrus-bearded Mother @wunderkammertales.bsky.social here longs to collect more egg tales from you!
A drude might sneak into the coop at night and swap a hen's egg with one of their own.
The Drudenei, a drude's egg, is smaller but has apotropaic effects. It protects your house from lightning and keeps other druden from stealing your children and replace them with changelings.
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Easter egg, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: Here‘s an example of the Irish love of colour: "And the eagle and cranes were red with green heads, and their eggs were pure crimson and blue;"
Source: High Deeds of Finn, and other bardic romances of ancient Ireland
Easter egg, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: Here‘s an example of the Irish love of colour: "And the eagle and cranes were red with green heads, and their eggs were pure crimson and blue;"
Source: High Deeds of Finn, and other bardic romances of ancient Ireland
An unknown artist's depiction of Pangu emerging from his egg, in such a way that land is represented by one piece of yin yang, the water the other. He is muscular, bearded, and wears grass as a skirt.
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
Aldrovandi's 1640 woodcut of a basilisk, showing a being with a snake-like tail, a humped, scaled back, eight chicken-like legs, and a chicken head with a crown on it.
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 changeling stares in shock at what a farmer's wife is cooking. Illustration by P. J. Lynch.
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
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The color green represents nature, life & fertility. In ancient Egypt green represented the god Osiris, god of resurrection & fertility. redbubble.com/shop/ap/3465... #illustrations #art #homedecor #LegendaryWednesday #WyrdWednesday #mythology #folklore #Passover2026
