UniversalCompendiumCrest ablaze, beak obscured, eye gleaming with a fixed, unblinking stare: the Guianan cock-of-the-rock.
https://universalcompendium.com/gen_images/ucg/1animals/guianan-cock-rock-bird.htm
BC BY-NC-SABabini – Ripple
#Bizarre #Electronic #Experimental #Odd #Strange #Weird #StLouis
CC BY (#CreativeCommons Attribution) #ccmusic
https://babini.bandcamp.com/album/ripple
#Bizarre #Electronic #Experimental #Odd #Strange #Weird #StLouis
CC BY (#CreativeCommons Attribution) #ccmusic
https://babini.bandcamp.com/album/ripple
Ripple, by Babini
5 track album
RagnarTeee
David Castleton (Author)The town of Lanark, Scotland, hosts a strange spring custom called Whuppity Scoorie. On 1st March at 6.00 pm, a 'wee bell' is rung. This is a signal for children to start running around St Nicholas Kirk, making noise & whirling paper balls over their heads. After three laps have been completed, coins are thrown, for which the children 'scramble'. Some say the custom originated in attempts to drive off evil winter spirits. Others claim it recalls the relaxing of curfews as the days lengthened, meaning children could play out longer. Yet another explanation asserts the custom stems from a religious practice in which penitents were whipped as they ran around the church before bathing (or 'scooring') their wounds in the River Clyde. The first written records of the custom date to the mid-1800s though one writer in 1893 claimed the practice was already 120-years-old. #weird #FolkloreSunday #folklore #Scotland #churches #history
HiggsSpotted in a restaurant window and immediately thought of some #cthulhumythos stories
Really #weird idea of art
Really #weird idea of art
One of East London's most gruesome legends is associated with the Bow Flyover. The notorious gangsters the Kray Twins murdered the criminals Jack 'The Hat' McVitie and Frank 'Mad Axeman' Mitchell. There has been much speculation about how their bodies were disposed of and some claim they were laid to rest in the flyover's foundations before being entombed in concrete. Other theories state the bodies were put in the heating boilers of local public baths, placed in the boilers of Bankside Power Station (now the Tate Modern), cremated by a criminal associate who was a crematorium worker, and dumped in the sea. It is unlikely that the bodies were placed under the flyover as the presence of corpses in the concrete would have weakened the structure. #London #crime #gothic #psychogeography #weird #architecture #death #folklore #history #urban #cities
chris actualI never could imagine that I'd witness my country elect a convicted rapist and pedophile-adjacent, silver-spooned, misogynistic serial liar AGAIN after he staged a coup. And he's supported by the section of our society that pays lip service to the value and sanctity of children. AND after all this comes out, he still sits at over 40% approval.