#WyrdWednesday Manhattan nearly had a 200ft high owl mausoleum. New York Herald publisher and owl fan James Gordon Bennett Jr commissioned the design in 1906, but the architect Andrew O’Connor was murdered before it could be built and the plan sadly abandoned. www.atlasobscura.com/articles/man...

#WyrdWednesday #Celtic: `Ferb died with grief for Maine, and Nuagal died with grief for her husband and for her two sons. And a grave was made for them, and a stone put over it, and their names were written in Ogham; and Rath Ini got the name of Duma Ferb, Ferb's Mound, after that.
And this was the first blood shed in Ulster on the account of the Brown Bull of Cuailgne.`
Source: Cuchulain of Muirthemne by Lady Gregory

According to Jewish folklore, the inert body of the Golem of Prague was stored in the attic of Prague's Old New Synagogue. Some say it still lies hidden there. Supposedly, during World War II, a Nazi agent entered the attic to search for the Golem, and then mysteriously died. #WyrdWednesday

#WyrdWednesday #Celtic: "O Emer, what shall I do without my #Cuchulain, my fine nurseling, going in and out from me, to-night?", said Conall, father of kings.
"O Conall, lift me to the grave. Raise my stone over the grave of the Hound; since it is through grief for him I go to death, lay my mouth to the mouth of Cuchulain.
"I am Emer of the Fair Form; there is no more vengeance for me to find; I have no love for any man. It is sorrowful my stay is after the Hound."
And after that Emer bade Conall to make a wide, very deep grave for Cuchulain; and she laid herself down beside her gentle comrade, and she put her mouth to his mouth, and she said: "Love of my life, my friend, my sweetheart, my one choice of the men of the earth, many is the woman, wed or unwed, envied me till to-day: and now I will not stay living after you."
And her life went out from her, and she herself and Cuchulain were laid in the one grave by Conall. And he raised the one stone over them, and he wrote their names in Ogham, and he himself and all the men of Ulster keened them.
But the three times fifty queens that loved Cuchulain saw him appear in his Druid chariot, going through Emain Macha; and they could hear him singing the music of the Sidhe.`
Source: Cuchulain of Muirthemne by Lady Gregory

Sheela na Gig are strange gargoyle like ornaments that adorn castles and cathedrals all over Europe. Depicting a woman with a stretched and overly large vulva or labia, the carvings held evil at bay, keeping demons and evil spirits from entering these places. #WyrdWednesday

Sheela na Gig are strange gargoyle like ornaments that adorn castles and cathedrals all over Europe. Depicting a woman with a stretched and overly large vulva or labia, the carvings held evil at bay, keeping demons and evil spirits from entering these places. #WyrdWednesday

#WyrdWednesday #Celtic: `Conchubar came down to the strand and five hundred men along with him, to bring Deirdre away to Emain Macha, but all he found before him was her white body on the ground, and it with-out life. And it is what he said:
"A thousand deaths on the time I brought death on my sister's children; now I am myself without Deirdre, and they themselves are without life.
"They were my sister's children, the three brothers I vexed with blows, Naoise, and Ainnle, and Ardan; they have died along with Deirdre."
And they took her white, beautiful body, and laid it in a grave, and a flagstone was raised over her grave, and over the grave of the sons of Usnach, and their names were written in Ogham, and keening was made for their burial.`
Source: Cuchulain of Muirthemne by Lady Gregory

'Manners Maketh Man': so spake William of Wykeham, Agent Galahad- & James Evelyn, the 18th c. founder of the Beef & Faggot Charity. His parents' memorial monument bears this motto. It started life in Surrey but was expensively transported to Northumberland in 1928 by a wannabe baronet #WyrdWednesday

112 feet below the surface of the Louise Mine Lake in Crosby, Minnesota, a life-size replica of Jason Voorhees (from the Friday the 13th film franchise) can be found, chained to the bottom of the former mine pit. #WyrdWednesday #horror