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| + | "The true [[weird]] [[weird fiction|tale]] has something more than secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains according to rule. A certain [[atmosphere]] of breathless and unexplainable [[dread]] of outer, unknown forces must be present." --[[Supernatural Horror in Literature]]" (1927) by H. P. Lovecraft | ||
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| + | [[Image:Blemmyes (legendary creatures).jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Headless men|Blemmyes]] from Hartmann Schedel's ''Nuremberg Chronicle'' (1493)]] | ||
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| *[["Weird Al" Yankovic]] (born 1959), American musician and parodist | *[["Weird Al" Yankovic]] (born 1959), American musician and parodist | ||
| *[[Weird fiction]], speculative literature written in the late 19th and early 20th century | *[[Weird fiction]], speculative literature written in the late 19th and early 20th century | ||
| + | *[[Weird Tales]], magazine | ||
| *''[[The Weird]]'', a 2012 anthology of weird fiction | *''[[The Weird]]'', a 2012 anthology of weird fiction | ||
| ==Etymology== | ==Etymology== | ||
| - | From Middle English werde, wierde, wirde, wyrede, wurde, from Old English wyrd, wurd ("that which happens, fate, chance, fortune, destiny, Fate, the Fates, Providence, event, phenomenon, transaction, fact, deed"), from Proto-Germanic *wurdiz (“fate, destiny”), from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with Middle Low German wrd, wrth ("fate, death"), Middle High German wurt ("fate, death"), Icelandic urður ("fate"). Related to Old English weorþan ("to become"). More at worth. | + | From Old English ''[[wyrd]]'' ("that which happens, fate, chance, fortune, destiny, Fate, the Fates, Providence, event, phenomenon, transaction, fact, deed"). |
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
| *[[New Weird America]], a subgenre of psychedelic folk music of the mid-late 2000s | *[[New Weird America]], a subgenre of psychedelic folk music of the mid-late 2000s | ||
| - | *[[Weirdo]] | ||
| *[[Wyrd]], an Anglo-Saxon concept of fate | *[[Wyrd]], an Anglo-Saxon concept of fate | ||
| + | *[[W.E.I.R.D.]], acronym, describes populations that are Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic | ||
| == See also (2) == | == See also (2) == | ||
| *"[[odd]], [[uncanny]]", see [[grotesque]], [[confusion]], [[freak]], [[surprise]]. | *"[[odd]], [[uncanny]]", see [[grotesque]], [[confusion]], [[freak]], [[surprise]]. | ||
| + | *[[Weirdo (magazine)]], a magazine sized comics anthology created by Robert Crumb | ||
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"The true weird tale has something more than secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains according to rule. A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present." --Supernatural Horror in Literature" (1927) by H. P. Lovecraft |
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- Having supernatural or preternatural power.
- Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
- Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
Weird may refer to:
- "Weird Al" Yankovic (born 1959), American musician and parodist
- Weird fiction, speculative literature written in the late 19th and early 20th century
- Weird Tales, magazine
- The Weird, a 2012 anthology of weird fiction
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Etymology
From Old English wyrd ("that which happens, fate, chance, fortune, destiny, Fate, the Fates, Providence, event, phenomenon, transaction, fact, deed").
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See also
- New Weird America, a subgenre of psychedelic folk music of the mid-late 2000s
- Wyrd, an Anglo-Saxon concept of fate
- W.E.I.R.D., acronym, describes populations that are Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic
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See also (2)
- "odd, uncanny", see grotesque, confusion, freak, surprise.
- Weirdo (magazine), a magazine sized comics anthology created by Robert Crumb
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