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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 9h

Emily comes from old stock, an aristocratic Southern family that fell on hard times after the Civil War. Life was not what she expected but she remained as defiant as her father. Faulkner's classic tale "A Rose for Emily" is the definition of Southern gothic. #FairytaleTuesday

A cover for A Rose for Emily, showing Rose holding the body of long-dead Homer Barron, dressed in his finest. and holding a botttle with a rat tail coming out of it; it is unclear Emily's age in this image. Artist unknown, but Google refused to let me know who it is.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 10h

Ghuls are djinni or djinn-adjacent monsters of Arabia and the Muslim world, evil spirits that dwell in cemeteries and eat the flesh of the dead: they often disguise themselves as the living and engineer mass feats of death for feasts of their own. #FairytaleTuesday

"Amine discovers the Ghoul" from a version of the Thousand and One Nights, showing the servant Amine seeing a full-blown ghoul uncovering a dead body and revealing it to the woman courting his master, who is also herself a ghoul.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Missouri Constitution clearly states that no taxpayer funds may be appropriated for use at private religious schools. Here is exact language👇🏻

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anyone demanding compliance when all they're doing is breaking the law and lying out of their constantly puckered mouth-anus should NEVER be listened to. To Hell with Traitor Trump. He must be removed from power ASAP.

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Brandywine @meigora.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 05/10/2026

Yūrei are Japanese ghosts, unable to pass on. There are countless types of yūrei in Japanese and indeed international media, most in the form of angry ghosts, onryo. Famous examples include Ringu, Ju-on, and One Missed Call. #MythologyMonday 🖼: N. Davies

A tribute by artist N. Davies for the film Ringu, where the girl is crawling out of the television, with the katakana for Ringu written in an otherwise blank canvas. Her hair obscures her face, just like in the film.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 05/10/2026

Brazilian white lady-style ghosts are called Dama Branca, and are believed by some to be the ghosts of young white women who died in childbirth or violent men, including "honor killings" for those who loved across races. She avenges herself against abusive men. #MythologyMonday

An unknown artist's depiction of a White Lady, showing a woman in a gorgeous complex white gown, frayed at the ends, with skeletal hands; her face is sorrowful, her crown made of bones and laurels, and she is in all white, her head glowing.

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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 04/10/2026

Childhood nightmare

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 04/10/2026

The original headless horseman is the Dullahan of Ireland, carrying his own head as he searches for souls on Ireland's roadways. He may be an evolution of the Irish god Crom Dubh, the Black One. #FolkloreSunday #SpookySunday 🖼️: W.H. Brooke

W.H. Brooke's Dullahan, showing a rider with a horse who has thrown not only his own wailing head into the night, but his horse's head too.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Morning. 🖼️ Joseph Austin

Painting of nine magpies in different poses, in threes, one set above the other.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 01/10/2026

From a distance they are hilarious. Up close... hide your valuables.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 01/10/2026

Fortunately I specified modern historians and did not specify Europe in my generalized post. The Chinese have identified dinosaur bones as dragon bones for at least two thousand years while also identifying that sea fossils in mountains are explained by changes in sea level.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 30/09/2026

There is a contingent that believes dinosaurs are not real and were invented to hide the truth about dragons being real. They're often a subset of young Earth Creationists and flat earthers.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 28/09/2026

The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones by Lex Croucher (not enjoying at all), Witch Hat Atelier #7 (loved), Thirty-Two Words for Field by Manchán Magan (loving)

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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

I found it curious the witch in question who made this offering did a focaccia but who am I to question the Cailleach Bheur's taste in offerings? If anything I'm hungry.

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

Hey, sometimes you gotta treat the lady with some class 😉

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

And a good spread by the look of it!

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

Not with that attitude you can't. Back in the cages on the chicken legged hut, lass.

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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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