#hercinia
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #hercinia from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-07 02:55 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-07 02:55 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #hercinia.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-07 02:55 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 5 public posts (spanning ~72 hours).
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Top of the latest posts
This week's medieval beast is the hercinia which is described as a bird with glowing feathers. This hercinia is from an early edition of "L'Acerba etas" by Cecco d'Ascoli (1257-1327). #medievalbeasts #medievalmanuscripts #hercinia
Another technique medieval illustrators used to produce the glow of a hercinia was to give it a gilt background as in this image from a 13th century Second Family English bestiary. #medievalbeasts #medievalmanuscripts #hercinia
Medieval illustrators often used gilt (or white) to show the glow of a hercinia as in this lovely image from the Worksop Bestiary, c1185. #medievalbeasts #medievalmanuscripts #hercinia
What “hercinia” means
WikipediaHercinia is a legendary bird with glowing feathers that inhabited the Hercynian Forest of ancient Germany.
“Hercinia” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#hercinia across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #hercinia straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/hercinia