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 +This page ''{{PAGENAME}}'' is part of the [[publication bias list of the Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia]], presented by [[Alfred Jarry]].]]
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 +[[Image:Blemmyes (legendary creatures).jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Blemmyes (legendary creatures)|Blemmyes]] from [[Hartmann Schedel]]'s ''[[Nuremberg Chronicle]]'' ([[1493]])]] {{Template}}
# Having [[supernatural]] or [[preternatural]] [[power]]. # Having [[supernatural]] or [[preternatural]] [[power]].
# Having an unusually [[strange]] character or behaviour. # Having an unusually [[strange]] character or behaviour.
# Deviating from the normal; [[bizarre]]. # Deviating from the normal; [[bizarre]].
 +'''Weird''' may refer to:
-== See also ==+*[["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
 +==Etymology==
 +From Old English ''[[wyrd]]'' ("that which happens, fate, chance, fortune, destiny, Fate, the Fates, Providence, event, phenomenon, transaction, fact, deed").
 +==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
 +== See also (2) ==
-*"[[odd]], [[uncanny]]", see [[grotesque]], [[confusion]], [[freak]], [[surprise]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [Apr 2007]+*"[[odd]], [[uncanny]]", see [[grotesque]], [[confusion]], [[freak]], [[surprise]].
 +*[[Weirdo (magazine)]], a magazine sized comics anthology created by Robert Crumb
 + 
 +{{GFDL}}
 +[[Category:Non-mainstream]]

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  1. Having supernatural or preternatural power.
  2. Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
  3. Deviating from the normal; bizarre.

Weird may refer to:

Etymology

From Old English wyrd ("that which happens, fate, chance, fortune, destiny, Fate, the Fates, Providence, event, phenomenon, transaction, fact, deed").

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

See also (2)




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