Dirk Puehl
Storyteller, Mother of #WyrdWednesday and, until 1 March, exhibitor of #GoldenAgeOfIllustration vintage beauty.
For those of you who feel artsy or litsy in general - find my blog here:
wunderkammertales.blogspot.com
- “The Badger peeps out of his hole on Candlemas Day and when he finds snow walks abroad; but if he sees the sun shining he draws back into his hole” (German country lore) This one seems to be a “Frechdachs” (pert badger, the Germans do have a word for it, of course) judging from his mischievous mien
- Ah so "dachshund" is "badger hound" - thanks for increasing my German vocabulary with this lovely pic
- Close but not a cigar - a "dackel" (the more common German term for a dachshund) is about badger-sized, that's where it comes from. Badgers are too dangerous for an "Erdhund" (lit "dog that goes to ground") to be brought to bay in their sett.
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- Gets a #wyrdwednesday tag! :-) bsky.app/profile/wyrd...
- Wyrdlings! Open the door, get on the floor - since Neanderthals were discussed for the 1st time 169 yrs ago, we give you: “Wyrd Prehistory & Untimely Dinos” as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic – tell us tales based on the Flintstones to Professor Challenger’s Lost World & Godzilla!
- "As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill." 'Bleak House', Charles Dickens, 1852 #WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly
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- It's been... a while since I wrote this one, but I recall having to come across a reference elsewhere as well - top of mind, I wouldn't have known that either :-)
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- ... and a dinner inside an iguanodon!
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- It's his birthday come Sunday... wunderkammertales.blogspot.com/2015/04/benj...
- 👏 Had this one on my shortlist for today as well :-)
- “At last have mortal eyes gazed upon two reptiles of the great primitive ocean! I see the flaming red eyes of the Ichthyosaurus, each as big, or bigger than a man's head.” (Jules Verne “Journey to the Centre of the Earth”) 🎨 Édouard Riou (1867) #wyrdwednesday #bookillustration #booksky
- A student of Doré’s (obviously), Riou stands between earlier 19th engravings and the Golden Age of Illustration, with a heavy focus on the picturesque fantastic à la Jules Verne - his 56 pieces for “Centre of the Earth” can be found below archive.org/details/a-jo...
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- 👏 Wonder if there's a reference to Hugo Ball's "Caravan" (1916)? (... and now I imagine a procession of plesiosaurs of all sizes caravaning it at the bottom of loch for the rest of the day... thank you very much!!!) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ball
- “Some of them who had disappeared into the jungle came back presently driving a young iguanodon before them.” (Arthur Conan Doyle “The Lost World”) 🎨 Harry Rountree (1912) #wyrdwednesday #goldenageofillustration #bookillustration #booksky
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- Definitely kaiju-grade material here!
