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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 8h

Long Gu, or Dragon Bones, is a traditional ingredient in Chinese medicine. Once thought to be literal dragon bones, many admit that long gu are the fossilized remains of dead animals, be they dinosaur, birds, or mammals. #WyrdWednesday

An example of fossilized mammal bone used as long gu, held by a human hand, with herbs in the background.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 8h

In the depths of the Congo River Basin, a monster dwells: the Mokèlé-mbèmbé is one of Africa's most well-known cryptids, essentially a dinosaur-like creature that lives in the waterways, terrorizing humans and animals alike. #WyrdWednesday

An unknown artist's depiction of Mokèlé-mbèmbé, here a pleliosaur with fins, in conflict with three hippos as white birds fly around the battle.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 8h

The White River Monster, or Whitey, may be the stuff of Ozark tall tales, but it's also perhaps North America's most friendly river monster. Often described as a giant fish, eel, gar, or dinosaur style sea monster, Whitey is defensive of fish, so be careful. #WyrdWednesday

Whitey as depicted by an unknown artist, here breaking a ship called the Juno using the ridges on its back. It here is a massive fish-looking animal with spikes for teeth, two of which are coming out of the front like horns.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 8h

Modern historians have suggested that dragons were proven to premodern populations by none other than unearthed fossilized dinosaur bones. Given how close modern dragons look to these bones it is entirely possible, though dragon truthers would very much disagree. #WyrdWednesday

$An in-tact T-Rex skull and jaw, fossilized with fracture lines on the snout and occipital areas.$

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Wyrd Wednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yabba-Dabba-Doo, you Wyrdlings! Since the Flintstones premiered on 30 September 1960, it’s: “Modern Stone-Ages: Dinotopias, Lost Worlds & supermodern Saurians!” for this week’s #WyrdWednesday! Come, tell tales of odd places harbouring giant lizards, thawed up icemen & why brontos suddenly appear!

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 29/09/2026

Charles Perrault's version of Cinderella is one of the most popular, and it is this version that installed the pumpkin-as-carriage that Disney animated: this New World crop had become so ingrained in European society by the 17th century it bled into fairy tales. #FairytaleTuesday

William Henry Margetson's depiction of Cinderella and the Fairy Godmother, the latter using her wand/cane to turn a pumpkin and mice into a carriage and horses right before Cinderella's very eyes (also indoors, so that seems unsafe).

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

“When it draws near to witching time of night” (Robert Blair) 🎨 Holls Walck #owlishmonday

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Amid outcry, NY prosecutors have reopened the criminal investigation into the 7 Cornell gang rapists, a case that was covered up 2 years ago. These assholes would’ve been punished if they had written “free Palestine” instead of “free p*ssy.” Cornell leadership should be investigated too.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 27/09/2026

Sheriff George Corwin was called the Strangler during the Salem Witch Trials for presiding over many of the deaths; when he died, he was buried in his basement. Atop of this was built the Joshua Ward House, where people report cold hands around their necks and arms. #SpookySunday

The modern Joshua Ward House, a brick three-story home that has been immaculately maintained, reflecting the sunset through its windows.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 27/09/2026

An Algonquin tale tells that the changing color of leaves is the blood of the Bear, who greedily ate the food stored in preparation of winter and whom the Algonquins chased across the world. Finally hit with an arrow, his blood turns the leaves red in autumn. #FolkloreSunday

An autumn scene inside the silhouette of a bear.

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Join us on 24th September for our autumn and fall-themed #FolkloreThursday! Our hosts will share posts made to the hashtag at the following times BST: 9am-2pm 3.30pm-4.30pm 6pm-7pm 🍂🍎🎃 (🎨John William Godward, Autumn.)

A woman in a flowing red dress with a green sash reaches for grapes hanging from a vine, with a bowl of grapes at her feet. John William Godward, Autumn.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 23/09/2026

The Gaelic Cailleach accepts offerings of bread, often burnt, varying by region and time of year. In autumn, near Samhain, she accepts this gift for her time of year has begun. #WyrdWednesday

The Seaside Forager's Dulse Focaccia as a Soulcake for the Cailleach on the Hebrdies island of South Uist; here it is shown on a stony beach at lowtide with a blue sky above.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 23/09/2026

The ancient Greeks had little agreement over the centuries regarding how to portray the seasons as gods. The most common depiction of autumn was fruitful Karpo, one of the original Horae. A goddess of harvest and ripening food, she attended to Persephone. #WyrdWednesday

A procession for a harvest festival, with a man at the front with the staff of Dionysus, followed by a woman holding sheaths of grain meant to be Persephone, followed by a woman attending her long braid extensions or rope knots from her bun, who is holding hands with the woman or man behind her. This is a statue on a wall, with cracks and damages; the person behind the attendant, aka Karpo, is headless.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 23/09/2026

In Daoist astrology, autumn is the time of the White Tiger of the West and the element of metal. It represents a movement inward, a time to reflect, to grieve, and to celebrate the good things life brings, in preparation for the harsh truths of winter. #WyrdWednesday

A white tiger painting next to a maple tree beside a mountain's fog, by an unknown artist.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 23/09/2026

Mabon, a modern neopagan name for the autumn equinox, derives its name from Mabon ap Modron, himself derived from the pan-Celtic Maponos, the Great Son. Mabon is the second of the main autumn harvest festivals, after Lunasa and preceding Samhain. #WyrdWednesday

Witchy tips for Mabon from @pagangrimoire. The following are images with words beneath them, in order from top left to bottom right, in two lines of three.

An apple: go apple picking or bake with apples;
Trees and a a trail: go for a quiet walk in nature
A broom: Make a broom for your home or altar
A journal: Take time to reflect or journal
An orange leaf: Harness the energy of the season to find balance
A pomegranate: Decorate your altar for the season

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Matthew Meyer @yokai.com · 23/09/2026

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Wyrd Wednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wyrdlings! With Mabon upon us this week, halfway between Lughnasadh and Samhain at the threshold of this year’s autumn, we give you: “Mabon: A Harvest of Stories” as our #WyrdWednesday topic. Come, sit and tell us harvest tales and speak of all things wyrd and wynderfully autumnal!

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 21/09/2026

Hardly faithful to Hephaestus, Aphrodite crawled into bed with her lover Ares and the trap was sprung: god of invention, Hephaestus had created a trap to ensnare the lovers so they would be on full display for all to see, humiliating them as they humiliated him. #MythologyMonday

Costantino Cedini's depiction of Venus and Mars being trapped by a net in a bed made of clouds by tiny little cherubs; the other goods look on in the corner, expectantly, from the Palazzo Capodilista in Padova.

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Bradshaw Lentz @shawbie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ride the Pink Horse

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 20/09/2026

Founded at the onset of Santa Fe's creation, the La Fonda Hotel was where law enforcement tried and hanged outlaws. Though destroyed several times, ghosts of outlaws, businessmen, lynch victims, and one territorial judge have been reported. #SpookySunday

The La Fonda Hotel over a century ago; the modern building looks very different. An adobe building with just two floors is visible with cars of the 1920s visible on a mostly empty street, parked in front of the hotel. Beside it are attached brick buildings in a style similar to the 1920s.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 20/09/2026

Zoroastrian Valentines is called Jashn-e Mehr, an Iranian festival of the autumnal equinox which celebrates the ties that bind, whether platonic or romantic. Dedicated to Mithra, kings were crowned on this holy day and the festival survives Islam. #FolkloreSunday

A celebration of of Jashn-e Mehr at UCTI University of Malaysia, put on by Iranian students there; an altar before a stage is filled with fruits, wheat, tea, candlesticks, and scone-like sweets, along with seasonal flowers and other confections.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 20/09/2026

On Christmas Day, 1948, Ladell Allen's mother noticed she was missing and found her dying from drinking mercury cyanide over a jilted lover. Though once contained to a sealed-off room, the ghost of Ladell Allen now haunts all of Allen House in Monticello, AR. #SpookySunday

A gothic-filtered Allen House showing an Edwardian style two story building with a red roof and white paint from the street, taken by the owner circa 2023. Honestly if I was real estate-savvy in 2023 I'd have bought this thing, that's a bargain for 5500 square feet.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 20/09/2026

In pre-Christian Slavic tribes, Dożynki was an autumn equinox festival, one celebrating the gifts of the earth and the hope of renewal next year, when the gifts would come once again. Holdovers from these celebrations include the baking of massive pancakes. #FolkloreSunday

A painted photo of from the early 20th century showing two traditionally dressed Russian women with the last sheafs of fall.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A favourite churchyard apparition was the one that manifested in the 1940s at St Bartholomew's, Yealmpton, #Devon. The vicar, Rev Dr Byles, was walking through the graves when he saw a big hole in the path before him. Astonished, he skirted it & fetched his wife from the church. [More #SpookySunday

A photograph of St Bartholomew's, Yealmpton, copyright Ruth Sharvill.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The US national average gas price was $3.82 on the day Trump posted this tweet. It is $4.47 today.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What’s Kash working on today?

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Zack Morrissette threads.com/@zacksploitation

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026

"Sinuhe, my friend, perhaps we were born to see the sunset of the world, for the world is already old, and 1,200 years have passed since the building of the pyramids. When I think of this, I want to bury my head in my hands and cry like a child." ("The Egyptian") Mika Waltari was born #OTD 1908

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Anti-Fascist Translator Monkey @translatormonkey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

From last year. A good history lesson.

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Iago from Shakespeare's Othello @bbo-iago.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

An egg in a cup, and God does the matchmaking. Tell a girl her fate floats in the yolk and she will stir it herself into any shape she pleases.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 16/09/2026

Nagual are shapeshifters, human tricksters born with shamanic powers and familiars they can use for good or evil: the person must choose. Found across Mesoamerica with evidence stretching back millennias, modern Mexican naguals are often associated with brujería. #WyrdWednesday

The Borgia Codex, showing two naguals in an Aztec context, including clothes, ways to transform, and associated gods

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 16/09/2026

Found in Mesoamerican art until the Spanish conquest, the Olmec werejaguar motif is found in all manner of art and may have represented rain, sovereignty, or priestly help. Said to be born of women and jaguar, their power was summoned by warriors to defeat foes. #WyrdWednesday

A statue of a werejaguar, which is a man sitting with his knees to his chest, his face having a priestly hat, but his face distorted into a cat-like face.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 16/09/2026

Ancient Mesoamericans imagined the night's sky like that of a cave, with light glistening from each stalactite from far above. Rain is water rushing into our cave, and for that rain gods are given much prominence in Mayan and Aztec mythos. #WyrdWednesday

A Mesoamerican cave full of glow worms, which looks suspiciously like a night's sky reflecting on the cave's water.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 16/09/2026

The mythologies of the Aztec peoples come to us in two sources, in the same book: the Florentine Codex, the most complete work, is written on one side in Spanish, and one side in Nahuatl, recording indigenous life, but sometimes telling it differently. #WyrdWednesday

A picture of an opened Florentine Codex, showing illustrations words, some in Spanish, some in Latin-script bound Nahuatl.

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Wyrd Wednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Wyrdlings! Grito de Dolores rang out to kick off Mexican Independence on 16 September 1810 and, accordingly, we give you: “A Mosaic of Different Worlds – Maya, Aztec, Mexico!” As this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic! Ven, siéntate, cuenta una historia, of the old days and of modern México!

A poster for this week's Wryd Wednesday with the theme: “A Mosaic of Different Worlds – Maya, Aztec, Mexico!” It shows a young person in the jungle surrounded by flora and fauna.

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Pauline Park @paulinepark.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Godyssey Podcast (@godysseypodcast.com): "Many cultures have hyperbole to indicate 'long, long ago" in mythic times, but Korea's is uniquely strange: 'back when tigers used to smoke' is one of many ways #tigers appear in #Korean #folklore & #myth. #FairyTaleTuesday"

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 15/09/2026

He lassos tornados. He brought a storm from California to solve a drought in Texas, only to create the Gulf of Mexico. He dug the Rio Grande to give his horse water. He is Pecos Bill, a giant of Southwestern storytelling and of proportion, too. #FairytaleTuesday

An unknown artist's painting of Pecos Bill lassoing a tornado as it flies away with cowboys and cows, a Texan windmill in the background.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 15/09/2026

Aesop's Fables comments on the intelligence of crows in "The Crow and the Pitcher," which is not so much a fable on perseverance and cleverness, as it is an observable fact that crows are problem-solvers. #FairytaleTuesday

A drawing depicting a crow standing on a rock, putting a stone into an ancient Greek pitcher, showing a farmer and his cow on it

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 15/09/2026

The Scorpion begged the Frog to ferry it across the pond, promising not to sting him, so he agrees; halfway across, the Scorpion stung him. "Why? Now we will both drown," he asks. "A Scorpion cannot change its nature, dear Frog." So goes the famed fable. #FairyTaleTuesday

Artist Michael Morgenstern's depiction of the Scorpion and the Frog, with the frog having a concerning human eye. The sun sets between the scorpion's tail, which angles to the frog's back, indicating how this ends.

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Armchair Classicist (Ryan Schaller) @armchairclassicist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action--that is, whether he is action rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one?"

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Eli Redman @eliredman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This👇

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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

sounds legit

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 14/09/2026

Contrary to popular belief tarot began its life as a set of cards meant for playing games. It was not until the 18th century that tarot became a divination tool. Like most decks it has four suits (the minor Arcana) but adds 22 additional cards (the major Arcana) #MythologyMonday

Modern tarot designed to look like old school Italian tarot, with bright colors, funny hats, and lots of Catholic imagery, including a death with a strong skeletal structure.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 14/09/2026

Roman augurs would watch flocks of birds for movement, direction, shape of flock, and types of birds involved: this divination was called augury, and interpretation taking auspices. The location of Rome's founding was based on Romulus using augury. #MythologyMonday 📸: D. Biber

A murmuration of birds flying in the sky, showing the flock in the shape of a bird flying above a sunsetted mountain horizon.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 14/09/2026

Compasses are ancient, a Chinese invention used first in divination before navigation, as it always seemed to point in certain directions, and directions are sacred to the divinations of the I Ching: thus, all compasses are themselves iron magic. #MythologyMonday

A late Han Dynasty (2nd century BCE to 2nd century CE) compass, with an iron spoon over a brass plate whose various bars and lines indicate the constellations, directions, and trigrams

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 14/09/2026

Puritan divination methods in Massachusetts included divining the face of your future husband. To do this, pray to God while putting an egg yolk in water; break it up and let it spin by way of spoon, and within, God will reveal your future love. Puritan magic! #MythologyMonday

An egg in a cup of water, the yolk at the bottom, with bits connecting it to the top; there is something in the water or a process is taking place, because bubbles fizz at the top.

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Eli Redman @eliredman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Donald....Donald..."

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 13/09/2026

The Red Ghost was an aggressive camel, allegedly a spirit, in the American West in the 1880s, said to have a ghostly rider on its back. When hunters found it, they shot the rider: a skull fell off, revealing a rider who died in the saddle. The Ghost was later killed #SpookySunday

An unknown artist's depiction of the aggressive and angry Red Ghost of Arizona, a skeleton on its back as it charges through the cacti and rugged rocks.

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