WyrdWednesday

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#WyrdWednesday And so we come to the end of our time here on this platform. Thank you for your contributions throughout the years. We bid you farewell here, but invite you to join us weekly over on Blusky and Instagram where the Wyrd times will continue. Links in comments.

Endings in both myth and history share a common lesson. Nothing built without care remains secure forever. #WyrdWednesday Art: Victor Charade

#WyrdWednesday "Downfalls, Demises & It's All Over" At Camlann's bloody field, King Arthur falls—mortally wounded, the once-mighty Pendragon breathes his last breath. Yet death is no end: by ancient Celtic enchantment (some say Morgan le Fay's craft), his soul shifts into raven form. He soars stealth, over Britain's wild moors, waiting to return and reclaim his realm. Even kings fade, but Wyrd endures in black wings. 🐦‍⬛👑 #KingArthur #ArthurianLegend Gif: #NiftyBucklesFolklore

#WyrdWednesday "Downfalls, Demises & It's All Over!" #Ragnarok 🔥🐉 Ragnarök: the ultimate final curtain in Norse lore. Odin devoured by Fenrir, Thor slain by Jörmungandr's venom, Loki & Heimdall mutually destroy each other. ⚔️ The World burns under Surtr's flame, drowns in flood—yet renews. 🔥 Even gods can't escape wyrd's weave. Nothing lasts forever. Gif: #NiftyBucklesFolklore

#WyrdWednesday "Downfalls, Demises & It's All Over!" 🐉🔥 Orkney's Muckle Mester Stoorworm, monstrous sea serpent, devoured maidens & poisoned lands. Humble Assipattle crept into its maw, lit its liver with burning peat. The beast convulsed in agony, died exploding—teeth formed Orkney/Shetland/Faroes isles, corpse became Iceland. Mightiest falls birth new worlds from ruin. 🌐🔥 Gif: #NiftyBucklesFplklore

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War is considered the end of the Age of Heroes. In some versions, it was purposefully instigated by Zeus because he was worried that all these demigods could be a threat to the gods. He caused a war to make them slaughter each other. #WyrdWednesday

Founded in 1854, the London Necropolis Railway relieved pressure on churchyards by whisking the dead out to Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey. Its station, near Waterloo, boasted a steam-powered coffin lift & a glass roof so no shadow would be cast on the hearse carriage. #WyrdWednesday

#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: Forgall wanted to prevent his daughter Emer from becoming CúChulainn's wife. This was his downfall. 1/4

In folklore, cursed rulers bring ruin not only upon themselves, but upon their lands. Leadership carries collective consequences. #WyrdWednesday

#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: Diarmuid’s love for Grania was his downfall. Out of jealousy, #Finn refused to heal him from his fatal wounds. 1/10

Nothing says it's all over like a funeral. Unless a cat jumps over the grave, and then the deceased will rise again as a vampire! #WyrdWednesday #catlore

#WyrdWednesday "A galaxy of radiant colours - blues, oranges, purples, pinks - shimmered from the heraldic flags and banners, from the gaudy canvases that roofed the carriages and carts. There was no shouting of orders from the staller or the groom, no panting as liveried servants scampered back and forth with brimming vine-cups and ribald messages. And yet the retinue passed in regal fashion, the animals treading slowly, softly, nodding with contentment. Because their masters and mistresses were dead. All here were dead. Save one. A lone knight - dressed all in black, reined up by the roadside." "King Death" by Paul Finch 🎨 Elzart

#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `Fergus mac Róich was sent into a lake by Ailill to drown the men that were swimming there. Medb’s heart could not bear that, so that she went into the lake. 1/4

Immortality is the bane of Chinese folklore and history, sought by powerful rulers but received by unwitting or pure souls like Chang'e. Emperor Qin Shi Huang believed mercury was the answer to immortality, likely hastening his demise. #WyrdWednesday

#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday The Achilles' Heel, that mortal flaw that contains both a promise of invulnerability and a prophecy of final doom, is ubiquitous across many mythologies. Welsh myth contains one of the more obscure examples. Lleu Llaw Gyffes can only be slain at dusk, while wrapped in a net, standing with one foot in a bath and one on a goat, with a spear forged only on Sundays for a year. His wife, the tragic enchanted woman crafted from flowers, Blodeuwedd, arranges just such a set of circumstances. To be free from her unhappy and unwanted marriage, she conspires for her true love, Gronw Pebr, to hurl the spear, the final ingredient in Lleu's downfall. This is not quite the end for Lleu, however. He transforms into an eagle and flees to a tall oak tree to die. But the magic song of his uncle, the sorcerer Gywdion, changes him back to human form and brings him back to health.

Bean-nighe are harbingers of death, fey who appear as washer women cleaning blood from clothes and armor. When the viewer looks more closely, they realize the clothes being washed are their own: it is an omen of their upcoming demise. #WyrdWednesday

#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `#CuChulainn had loved Blathnait even before she was brought over the sea. She was the daughter of Iuchna, king of the men of Falga. He arranged to meet her again in the west on Samain night. 1/7

One might see Morgause as a damsel, the wife of haughty Lot of Orkney, sister to Arthur and Morgan, mother of Gawain and Agravaine: but she is more, for she is mother of Mordred, and she who shapes him into the instrument of Camelot's demise #WyrdWednesday 🖼️: H.J. Ford

The Titanic’s demise remains haunting because it symbolized certainty undone. Technology promised mastery. Nature answered otherwise. #WyrdWednesday Art: Max Beckmann