Get your party shrouds on again tomorrow for #SpookySunday, the feed that celebrates all things ghostly. Any posts on ghosts in #folklore, fiction, poetry, art, haunted locations, popular culture etc will be most welcome. All (relevant) reposts will be found here: @spookysunday.bsky.social #ghosts

‘To this it must be added, that life in a wig is to a large class of people much more terrifying and impressive than life with its own head of hair.’ ~ Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop. It’s #ReadABookDay on the 6th so we will be recommending favourite books with a quote for this #BookWormSat 📖

Is a late entry acceptable for #WyrdWednesday ? Now that we are entering the last quarter of the year I think that Ray Bradbury’s warning about autumn people is timely

The Green Giant (he who practically invented veggies) was looking for your vote in the autumn of 1960. Usually not one that would make idle threats, but in this case he really wanted your X on the ballot paper. #WyrdWednesday #HoHoHoGreenGiant

Thanks for celebrating the beginning of yet another Wyrd and Wynderful spooky season! We loved your haunting posts. We will announce our next topic on Monday. Let the pumpkin spice lattes flow! 🎃

Oranges Being Peeled on a Conveyor Belt

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Don't follow a spirit into the woods, no matter how fair they might appear. #WyrdWednesday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/How_A_Burgher_Mistook_A_Dead_Cow_For_A_Beautiful_Woman

How A Burgher Mistook A Dead Cow For A Beautiful Woman

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“Un frân ddu, Lwc ddrwg i mi.” ("One crow I see, Bad luck to me”, Elias Owen, "Welsh Folk-Lore", 1887) 🎨Gris Grimley #WyrdWednesday

#WyrdWednesday A recent fun find is this booklet about some spooky folktales of Dartmoor, including Bowerman the hunter turned to stone by a witch, Lady Mary Howard who murdered her husband and now rides a bone coach every midnight, and the Hairy Hands which materialise and cause vehicles to crash.

Mallt y Nos ("Matilda of the Night") is a crone in Welsh mythology who rides with the Wild Hunt. She was once a beautiful noblewoman who loved hunting so much that she refused to go to Heaven if there was no hunting there. Now she chases lost souls forever across the night sky. #WyrdWednesday

#WyrdWednesday Wyrd Wednesday #Celtic: `There were many women (who) loved #Angus, and there was one Enghi, daughter of Elcmair, loved him though she had not seen him. 1/4

Thanks to @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social for the last round! @prairiebones.bsky.social will be here for the remainder of the day. It's basically Halloween at this point so let's see all your scary stuff!

Jack Skellington Waves Hello

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In Germany, you never know when some spirit might jump on your back and won't get off. #WyrdWednesday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Church_in_Altenau

The Church in Altenau

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Spiders mate in #Autumn so are more visible. A spider crossing your path is good luck and saving one's life is good fortune. www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3564... #art #illustration #vintage #WyrdWednesday #decor #posters #folklore #fairytale #superstition

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Little Miss Muffet, from Mother Goose, by Arthur Rackham Please look in my shop for more Mother Goose.

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"The Elf-king sits under a great toadstool, Ir. march. 2, 4; and whoever carries a toadstool about him grows small and light as an elf." (Grimm) 🎨 Louis Moe #WyrdWednesday

In autumn she is Sharada, the goddess of that season: Saraswati prefers this season, the goddess of learning blessing it in India and beyond. It is a time for music, for speech, for learning and art and create but also to regenerate and grow. #WyrdWednesday 🖼: R.R. Varma

#WyrdWednesday Charles Laughton's classic film Night of the Hunter gives the sort of spooky, chilling vibes associated with this time of year - Robert Mitchum creates a constant feeling of looming evil as he pursues two young children along the river ,,,

Old-time Jamaicans said that whenever you arrive home late at night, especially from a nine-night, you should enter your house backwards to prevent any duppies you may have encountered from following you inside. #WyrdWednesday #Jamaica #Folklore

According to superstition, Lucifer landed in a blackberry bush when he fell from Heaven, cursing the fruit, so be sure to finish picking them by Michaelmas, September 29 on Western Christian liturgical calendars. Blackberries Spilling from Tin Cup, c. 1890s Levi Wells Prentice #WyrdWednesday

In Ireland, Damhán ealla are small spiders that float through the air in the Autumn. Whoever they land on will get a new article of clothing, so the spiders are not to be interfered with. redbubble.com/shop/ap/3544... #Folklore #WyrdWednesday #art #vintage #illustration #fairytale #mythology

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The web and the diamonds and the Big Spider himself all fell to the ground" The Big Spider's Diamonds Please look in my shop for more work by Edmund Dulac

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I was wandering in the churchyard of St Mary's by the Tyne, Gateshead, today in typical early autumn drizzle, when I spotted this cute little fellow - and snapped him. Perhaps fitting for summer's end and the turning of the year? #WyrdWednesday #folklore #gothic #graveyard #skull #history #weird

Autumn sees an increase of kitsune sightings and with it, fox fire. As reapers take to the fields, they see foxes moving in and about them, not always a bad sign but always an auspicious one. #WyrdWednesday 🖼️: Jeepster

#WyrdWednesday Wyrd Wednesday #Celtic: On the eve of #Samhain `Aillen's mother came to where his body was lying, and there was great grief on her, and she made this complaint:— "Ochone! Aillen is fallen, chief of the Sidhe of Beinn Boirche; the slow clouds of death are come on him. 1/7

In 1752 the month of September lasted for only 19 days. When the UK switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, 11 days were skipped so Sept 2 was immediately followed by Sept 14. Handy for William Willett of Endon who wagered he could dance non-stop for 12 days & nights 🧵1 #WyrdWednesday

Ghost in Garden ~Carel Victor Morlais Weight #WyrdWednesday

The Witching Hour, 1977 🎨 Andrew Wyeth Notice the faint hexafoil, also known as a witch mark, on the wall. It is there to ward off evil spirits. #art #WyrdWednesday

A strange floating specter was once spotted near the village of Sandhübel. #WyrdWednesday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Singing_Thing_on_the_Fields_Near_Sandh%C3%BCbel

The Singing Thing on the Fields Near Sandhübel

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🍂🌫️⚓ #WyrdWednesday As Autumn fog settles over Newfoundland, old maritime folklore tells of ghost ships haunting the bays and phantom vessels appearing as warnings of approaching storms. 👻🌊 📚 Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore Archive #Autumn #FogFolklore 📸 by Larry St. Pierre.

Final spooky image from me for #WyrdWednesday. John Tenniel's contemporary depiction of Jack The Ripper. #WyrdWednesday #Victorian

#WyrdWednesday Wyrd Wednesday #Celtic: On the eve of #Samhain `Finn rose up before all the men of Ireland, and he made a round of the whole of Teamhair. 1/7

The thickness of apple or onion skins foretells how cold a winter will be. Thicker skins mean colder winters. 🎨Arthur Rackham redbubble.com/shop/ap/3431... #WyrdWednesday #art #illustration #homedecoration #gifts #mythology #folklore #wallart #Autumn #vintage #illustrationart

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Windfall - Autumn Harvest - Arthur Rackham There is quite a lot going on in this beautiful illustration.

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