# ukiyoe monsters storytelling cumbria shakespeare yokai folklore

1809 Theodore Hook made a wager he could make 54 Berners St the most infamous house in London. He sent there chimney sweeps, wedding cakes, doctors, lawyers, priests, fishmongers & more! Onlookers gathered. The city stood still. The Berners St Hoax was a success!

2 29
2020-05-20

Some oddness for this week.
'Athletic Contests of Turtles' - Harada Keigaku. 🐢

16 29
2020-05-06

A HOBGOBLIN'S MIRROR makes anything good in the world appear bad & all that is evil & worthless seem attractive in The Snow Queen. If a fragment enters a person's eye they will see only faults, if a splinter enters their heart it will turn to ice 🎨 T. Pym, 1883

61 198
2020-04-29

“ derived from a circumstance which happened about 200 years ago, almost too ridiculous to be credited, an ancient possessor being said to have slain a noxious, cockatrice”

Mythical creatures of Cumbria: https://t.co/K2jKznwomk

4 11
2020-04-29

Macbeth, the three witches, Hecate, and the eight kings, in a cave. Stipple print by R. Thew after J. Reynolds.

3 5
2020-04-23

It's *that* time of the week again...

Get head-spinningly wyrd & wynderful and share your stories, images and... things with tomorrow &
will RT them after 0900 AM GMT.

9 22
2020-04-15

“Tommy’s Cousins” (1873) a short sister story to Kingsley’s The Water Babies for ✨🦞 The sea-anemones bowed & waved their fringes to the mermaid & welcomed her home. “I have here a poor little urchin who has been naughty & has been punished.”’ 🐡

11 28
2020-04-08

It's *that* time of the week again...

April Fool's Day and - We'll RT things tomorrow after 0900 AM GMT.

Warning: Sharing Corona-related hoaxes with this # gets you cursed until the thirteenth generation of your race will have disappeared!

9 36
2020-03-31

“I suppose it was a romantic way to perish, for a mouse.” (L.M. Montgomery, “Anne of Green Gables”)

Welcome to the 3rd with Swiss artist Margaretha Dubach's 22 dioramas telling the wyrd & wynderful adventures of Otto Maus.

13 34
2020-03-18

In Japanese folklore, tales are told of yonaki-ishi or night-crying stones. These stones cry loudly at night and it is believed to be because they are possessed by a spirit, usually of someone who has been murdered and is seeking revenge.
1/3

18 52
2020-03-11

The 3 witches are characters in William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'.They hold a striking resemblance to the 3 Fates.Their origin lies in 'Holinshed's Chronicles' (1587), a history of England, Scotland and Ireland. Other possible sources include treatises on witchcraft.

32 91
2020-03-04