Post mythical or folkloric creatures from your cunt, everything is allowed.
Pic related is the Beast of Gévaudan, it was actually real, an unknown serial killer used some kind of Wolfdog for killing people, some modern hypothesis said it was actually a Spotted Hyena.
>>61535559
gulyabani
>>61535559
Why were people such bad drawers back in the day?
Anyways, Bigfoot. You all know about Bigfoot, right?
Wyomingites
>>61535632
whats bigfoot?
Wolpertinger. Really hard to catch as you have to pour salt over its tail or it will flee.
We have a ton. Some we share with different nations. Mostly other germanic ones. The Mara for example. "Mare" in English.
I'd to read a few books about other countries' folklore desu. Has anyone got any recommendations?
>from norse mythos
Trolls
Giants
Elves
Dwarves
Dark elves
And most other standard fantasy cliche creatures.
>>61535559
The "Tió the Nadal" (Christmas Log)
It's a log that the kids beat up with a stick in the Christmas Eve, with the rythm of a song.
When the kids do that, the log "shits" small gifts. Sweets, small toys, and food for Christmas.
Traditionally, if it is possible, the log is put to burn before the ritual. And you hit it while it's in flames. This is becoming less common, tho. Due to people living in cities, mainly.
It probably has the same origin of the Yule log.
>>61536105
(shit).
Forgot to explain: This is a tradition of Catalonia, Occitania, and Aragon. And "Tió de Nadal" is its Catalan name.
>>61535944
>created just to fuck with tourist
Germany sure is /devilish/
>>61535559
Banshee/Bean Sidhe
Dullahan
Selkie
Leprechaun
Faerie
Far darrig
Oilliphéist
>>61536004
Best mythology movie ever
The D&D nerds will knw these ones. (Swedish/Scandi folkloric creatures from around 1400 and onwards)
Draug
Changeling
Will o the wisp
Fearies
This lovely woman called "Çarşamba Karısı"
>>61535559
Witches can shoot fireballs and make your life harder than it was or can help you if you are not complete asshole. Really they are like to play on feels.
>>61536389
For example.
Skinwalker, wendingo, or whatever you want to call it.
>>61536105
A log that shits gifts... what?
>>61536273
why are certain areas closed off Norway
what are you hiding Norway
Wandlerkrähe (changing crow)
It is said to exist in Northern German towns that have bridges. Whenever it - in its crow form - flies underneath a bridge - and nobody is looking - it comes out on the other side as a seagull. And vice versa of course.
>>61535981
The Mothman Prophecies is good. Pretty good movie too.
>>61536519
Forgot generic picture of a bridge.
The tooth fairy
Dragon
Haggis
Voldemort
>>61535559
Of Catalan Mythology:
The Aloja, Goja, or also "Dona d'aigua (water woman)".
Aloja: əlɔ́ʒə
Goja: gɔ́ʒə
(note that the "J" is not the Spanish J. It's a completely different sound. It would sound horrible that way)
They are our version of the Nymph.
Aloges are feminine beings that live in lakes, springs, ponds, caves with water, and other places with fresh water.
They are of extreme beauty. With blond or red long hair that reaches their feet and blue eyes.
They can live for thousands of years. They are (usually) not malicious beings, and will avoid contact with humans. But if somehow you encounter them directly, bad things could happen to you.
It's said that, during the night, you can hear their music coming out from the caves their hide in.
>>61536485
>desire to know more intensifies
>>61536475
Goatman
We have la Llorona, crazy woman who drowned her kids, commited suicide and now roams moaning "aaaaaaaaay mis hijos" (my kids) and stealing children.
We have the dreamtime here in Australia. I'm not super knowledgeable about it but it's basically aboriginal mythology about how a lot of things came to be, essentially their interpretation of how the world was formed. One of the popular ones is the rainbow serpent which as it move it made paths in the ground which turned into the rivers and what not. Another one is the bunyip or yowie, the bunyip is supposedly a sort of evil spirit that haunts lakes and rivers and attack people at night. When the settlers came here the aboriginals warned them of the bunyip and many settlers believed them to be real and would hear howling at night. Some of the stories are quite interesting. Google dreamtime stories and there should be quite a few. We used to learn about them in school.
>>61536561
I remember there was this sporting goods store in a town a used to live by that had a jackolope head mounted on the wall.
Bored taxidermist are great.
>>61536367
Can you tell a little more about this? I got as far as "wednesday woman" from google but that led to nothing interesting and I don't want to loose this thread and chance to ask spending all my time googling bs.
Chupacabra
Saw one when I was little outside my grandparents ranch just outside San Antonio, Texas.
Inugami is the spirit of dog that possesses to curse. It's popular in Kansai area.
How to make Inugami
You lock a hungry dog up and put food in front of it. When the dog is dying, you chop its neck, and the head flies to bite food.
You burn it, put the bone into a container, hide it in the cabinet or under the floor and worship it. It will be your Inugami.
How to work Inugami
Once Inugami recognizes what you want, it possesses someone to achieve your success.
For example, if you want money, Inugami possesses the rich and causes some diseases. Finally he bring money to you to get rid of diseases.
The summoner of Inugami and those who are possessed are called Inugamitsuki (means possessed by Inugami).
If you are possessed by Inugami, your son and daughter are going to be possessed as well.
Inugami isn't always submissive, sometimes it injures you.
So Inugamitsuki is kept away from non-Inugamitsuki.
>>61536762
Chupathingy
>>61536477
It's just our variation of the Yule Log tradition.
We are slightly scatological.
>>61536706
That's not scary. If I hear that my reaction is to scream:
"Fuck off, we're full". And in the next elections, I vote for Trump,
>>61536706
Is that the donkey lady? Or is she another entity?
>>61536728
I couldn't find anything on English only thing was that it resembled "Alkarısı"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_(folklore)
Anyway her deal is to mess with people who don't tidy up earlier then she comes on wednesday and messes with the people of that house sometimes steals childrean in front of them
>>61536954
No, I just googled, donkey lady is some deformed thing, la llorona is a ghost
>>61536904
You'll be afraid when she steals your children and uses them to get welfare
>>61536273
TUSSELADD! Kek
One of my favourite movies desu.
>The ahuizotl (from the Nahuatl āhuitzotl for "spiny aquatic thing") is a legendary creature in Aztec myth.
>The creature is described as dog-like, its waterproof fur often clumping up to create spikes (hence its name). The ahuizotl has hands capable of manipulation and an additional hand on its tail. The ahuizotl is feared due to its liking for human flesh, especially nails, eyes, and teeth. It is said to live in or near the water and to use the hand on the end of its tail to snatch its prey, dragging the person into the depths to drown them. Victims of the ahuizotl, Aztec beliefs state, are destined for the paradise of the god Tlaloc.
it seems the fucker made it to mlp, dont know if that's good or bad
La Umita
it's a horrible floating head that errs in pain, crying and screaming. In theory, it's the wandering soul of a man punished for his sins.
Laidly Worm
Barghest
Bogles/Duergar
Mother Shipton
Pennhill Giant
just going for local folklore, not nationwide
>>61537089
Chupacabra's arch nemesis? Never heard of this thing.
>>61537163
well, ahuizotl is actually mythical, chupacabras is more recent
>>61536802
>How to make Inugami
You lock a hungry dog up and put food in front of it. When the dog is dying, you chop its neck, and the head flies to bite food.
Have there been any incidents where someone has tried to create one? I keep reading of shamans and voodoshit in Africa but similar cruel myths exist in many cultures. Though I can't recall one in Nordic mythology that needs animal cruelty and torture. Sounds more like witchcraft than a positive charm.
>>61537290
Makes sense. Nobody believes me that I once saw one though.
Skinny, mangy, and quick as lighting and of course, ugly as fuck.
>>61536707
Yowie gonna come get ya
>>61536004
> Bland tomtar och troll
I'm still looking for the translation of those books
>>61537351
where did you spot it?
depending on your answer it may have been an illegal immigrant
>>61537384
see
>>61536762
No, it was a canine like creature and look identical to the pic, only skinnier.
>>61537410
maybe a Coyote with a disease?
>>61537358
Fuckin yowie
![ps-10880-nzp[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/FLDG2S2.jpg "ps-10880-nzp[1].jpg")
We got the Taniwha, apparently they dislike it when you build bridges, lucky we have Maori tribes that talk to it for us and lets us know we can't build a bridge in certain places.
Wouldn't want to get eaten.
>Chaneques are legendary creatures in Mexican folklore. They are conceived of as small, sprite-like beings, elemental forces and guardians of nature.
>By tradition, these beings would attack intruders, frightening them so that their soul would abandon their body, which the chaneques enclosed in the depth of the land. If the victim did not recover their soul through a specific ritual, he or she would become ill and die soon after.
>In some contemporary legends, chaneques are described as children with the face of old men or women, that make people go stray during three or seven days, after which the victims cannot recall anything that happened... although it is thought that they are taken by the chaneques to their home in the Underworld, of which the entrance is a dry kapok tree.
sounds to me like an elf, or whatever you call those small tricksters
>>61537384
no idea m8, maybe a xoloizcuintli
>>61537496
No, it was exactly like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feqt97XVEUc
>>61537538
That's what people speculate, but from recent testing done on captured specimens, it's DNA wasn't a match.
>>61537652
meant for >>61537410
>>61537365
I can have a look. My grandmother used to read them to me every night.
i only care about youkai and stuff in touhou. rest is shit
>>61537672
isn't the original chupacabra a lizard thing and not a mangy looking dog
>>61535559
Bean Sídhe (lady of the Síd) who marks impending death with a keening wail. Although shes not really a creature but a person of the mounds.
>>61536475
In Alaska it's called kushtika, takes the form of a otter with a mans head. Crys like a baby to lure people out into the woods then it KILLS YOU. And it's real
>>61536475
Nice sneakers homie
Bigfoot is real. Why won't you believe, you fucks.
I've heard it myself
I have a friend from the northwest of Argentina and he told me that there they have some sort of creature called Curupi from the aboriginal folklore of that region.
From what I've heard, legends have it that this thing likes raping young girls and robbing them of their virginity.
>>61536706
pretty awesome run of batwoman had her up against this creature
>>61539209
That's a big dick 2bh
>>61535559
If you go to the forest better do not fuck with this dude and forest too. Name is Leshiy.
>>61539209
el boli
>>61535559
Malaysia and Indonesia. (Sometimes Singapore)
Pictured, Toyol, (Toy-old)
Use by its master to steal money from target.
Origin, died featus that have been worshipped. Live by sucking master's blood from toethumb. Will kill master if not fed. Can be inherited. To know if someone have this creature, when he/she dying, the face turned green and they will be in prolong agony before finaly RIP. Toyol will be roaming, find new master.
Other creatures
Pontianak (blood sucker bitch), summoning rites was recorded by Frank Swettenham book.
O'lele (specifically eats male dicks roaming in jungle)
Penanggal (bodiless bitch with beating heart and organ, silver trails emits from it, flying head)
Hantu Raya/Galah (taller than tree, have master)
Bunian (alt world human, some called them Jinns, dressed in 14th century Malay, have invisible cities in Banjaran Titiwangsa area, disrespect their city border will result getting lost in their cities, if no help from outside world, soul will lost, real body will die because malnutrition.)
And many more. :-D
>>61538992
heard wailing tonight
imagine it was just a fox having a ride
dragons and giants were real without question and I would think the creature that goes under the dwarf/faerie/gnome/elf name (not the tolkienized but the original) were likely real as well
not sure about the others
>>61535559
The Copperdick Owl.
>>61541014
Usually when thought it that way, the otherwise happen.
>based on experience
Comfy thread, do go on.
In my hometown, we have a myth about a 9 feet tall man, who'd beg residents of nearby houses for their kida since his died in a freak accident. If they said yes on their own and trusted him, the kids would be treated well. Should they turn him down he's eat the kids.
There's more to it I'm sure but that's all I can Muster up now, it's been almost two decades since I last heard the tale
Here in Costa Rica there is a town near me that supposedly has a creature that is like an old woman who jumps from roof to roof and runsacracross power lines and looks in people's windows and scares them.
>>61541487
She runs on the power lines, pues.
>>61536561
just play the witcher games
>>61535944
Is that not an american jackalope?
>>61542260
This.
D-don't forget to buy expansions many folklore and fights there.
>>61542312
yes of course there's also this new GWENT™ game coming next year very traditional folklore Slavic card game you should probably pre-order
>>61541390
that's pretty creepy
>>61536561
fucking shit i used to believe this was a real animal till i was like 16
lost a bet thanks to you fuckers
>>61537672
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DDr8WPAgpQ
The update video is pure fucking gold
>>61542312
>>61542353
fuck off everyone knows witcher shit
>>61536519
that's probably the least spectacular wondrous creature I've heard about. What's the point?
>>61537089
IIRC one of the greatest Aztec emperors was named after that thing
>>61539780
>Penanggal (bodiless bitch with beating heart and organ, silver trails emits from it, flying head)
That's some trippy shit
>>61543936
but no one knows anything about australia
>>61542201
I remember seeing this artifact on a history textbook talking about turkish mythology when i was younger.
>>61544065
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penanggalan
More detailed explanation.
Intelligent scots
>>61536004
>dark elves
I've never heard about dark elves. Maybe they're a Swedish thing, yes?
>>61536105
This is great
>>61535559
Every picture of the Beast of Gévaudan I see reminds me of an ancient mammal called Mesonychid. Pic related.
These little guys. If you see them at night and they invite you to dance with them, you better dance well or they'll break your legs. If they ask you a question you better not offend them or you'll be trapped in their dance circle and will die of exhaustion. If they invite you to their cave to meet their queen you better refuse cuz when you'll leave the cave 10 years will have go outside the cave. If you please them tho they'll give you gold, you'll have until the sunlight to take as many as you can, but if you're too greedy and try to take more after the sun has shone, all your gold will disapear.
pic related is the headless mule, a common folkore in certains regions of brazil
Saci: a deficient black child who smokes and makes mischief, cheating travelers in the forest.
Ho-Oh
9 tailed fox
Kirin
>>61536004
What's even the difference between troll and ice giant? I used to think trolls are uglier but ice giants apparently sometimes have claws or horns as well.
>>61547253
kek
looks like the description of an average Brazilian
we use to tell children that the Greggio will kidnap them if they don't behave
>>61536004
what's the difference between a dark elf and a dwarf?
I thought they were the same thing.
Cuck Claun at midnight knocks at your door if you open it he will ask you
>do you wanna see something funny?
if you answer yes he will fuck your wife
if you answer no he will fuck you
if you don't open the door he will take a shit at your doorstep
a terrible event that ancient slavs were dreading
>>61547674
I thought Poles were Sarmatian Wends...
This is a Witte Wief. They are local white, wise women who appear on misty mornings.
If you jack off too much Molester will posses your cock, grow to unbelievable proportions and mouthfuck you then just leave you cockless and with your own jizz in your mouth.
>>61547800
This is a Zwarte Piet. They are magical negroes that accompany Wodan when he returns from Spain in the guise of a Greek Saint, and are analogous to Odin's Ravens from Norse Mythology.
They break into homes when everyone is sleeping and they leave surprises.
How can that bitch think she can fuck me with my big cock and her fish cunt I dont know lol
>>61547873
what the fuck is Odin doing in Spain?
Vacationing in Majorca?
>>61547469
just like my animu
These are Hunebedbouwers. They are a local form of Ettin/Jotunn that like to stack stones.
>>61535559
http://www.sussexarch.org.uk/saaf/dragon.html
http://www.somptingestate.com/sompting-s-dragon-in-the-knucker-hole-pond <realknuckerhole
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knucker
The knucker has a lot of local legends, there are a few knuckerholes dotted around and traditionally a knucker was slain in many stories by Bevis of Hampton, who went on to international fame, as well as the local slayer Jim Puttock.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevis_of_Hampton
>>61547873
Niggers breaking into home when everyone is sleeping...
Good job Nederlands
>>61547917
Pretty much. He likes the weather of Spain better.
Caipora: A small Indian mounted on a peccary collared that protects forests and animals. Scares hunters and like to tobacco.
These are Kabouters. They are pretty much gnomes, but live in mushrooms and always have a pointy red cap. They were ruled by king Kyrië from Hoogeloon in the Campine region of North Brabant.
Garden gnomes are largely based on them.
Boitatá
Native myth about a giant fire-y/light-ey snake that protects the forest against people trying to start/spread wildfire. It lives in rivers/lakes and is, in fact, our version of will-o wisp
>>61536302
Indeed
Domovoj
Yara/Iara/Mãe-d'água
Our mermaid (used to be a triton, but the myth changed with time). Drowns unsuspecting sailors, enchanted by her song. Lives in the Amazon river.
What mythology is this being from? I've heard of them a while ago.
Basically a nymph with feet that point backwards. They confuse you because you will follow their footprints the wrong way.
Pink river dolphin
A real, but shy and rare animal, is linked to a myth about single moms.
During the day, the dolphin lives normally in the water. After sunset, he leaves to the ground, well-dressed and as a fully-grown man, to seduc e a girl - leaving the 'victim' before sunrise. When a girl didn't know who the father of her child was, she often blamed the pink river dolphin.
>>61548541
We have the Curupira, which is basically that (but is a male)
Tursas
>>61548345
t typical fucking ruski
>>61548610
>We have the Curupira, which is basically that (but is a male)
The one I read about was distinctly female. I remember it because I looked up images and couldn't decide wether those chicks were hot with their tits out but ther feet all backwards.
Cuca
a female alligator-looking witch, sleeps only one night per 7 years. Parents scare kids telling them the Cuca will kidnap them if they don't sleep.
>>61536105
>>61536135
>This is a tradition of Catalonia, Occitania, and Aragon.
In that case the clearly germanic tradition could go back to Great Migration days. Catalonia is a toponym derived from "Goth-Alania", from when it was conquered by a confederation of Visigoths and Alans.
Wallahmudjee
Basically an annoying cunt that pulls sneaky shit on white fellas like rearranging their stuff when not looking.
Basically a bit of a dickhead
>>61544065
There's pretty awesome manga by Shintaro Kago about one.
Vitória-Régia
It's a native myth about the lily pad plant (we call it vitória-régia, a homage to Queen Victoria (yep, the UK one). Quite cuck-y, I might say).
It was said that the moon, the goddess Jaci, would 'kiss' and fill with light the faces of the young virgin female natives of a particular tribe by moonrise. By moonset (sp?), Jaci would take away her favorite natives, transforming them in stars.
The warrior naiá, one of those said virgins, was obsessed by such story. By nightfall, she would try to find Jaci as much as possible, to no avail. Stopped eating and driking, and no shaman (called pajé by our natives) could restore her mind.
One day, resting near a lake, she saw the reflection Jaci on its surface. Blind by her dream, she jumped in and then drowned. Appaled by such sacrifice, Jaci made Naiá unique among her stars - she became the 'water star', or the lily pad. Its flowers only blossom at night and become pinky by sunrise.
>>61535559
<< there was this cool movie which seems to be inspired by the story that you mentioned
>>61539780
ayy lmaoooo
jersey devil i guess
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Devil
>>61536475
A wendigo is completely different from a skinwalker
Anhangá
A native myth about a shapeshifter forest spirit, n ormally under the guise of a white deer with fire-y eyes. It usually protects cubs and females breastfeeding their offspring.
The hunter would hear a whistle, and then its prey would just disappear into thin air. It's said Anhangá would redirect bullets to the hunter's loved ones (sometimes Anhangá would make a loved one show up as a enticing prey to the hunter).
If you were attacked by a wild animal, crying 'Valha-me, Anhangá' (more or less 'help me') would save you from such attack. Offering tobacco to it would allow you to go on a successful hunt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothman
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>>61547241
Why the fuck does it have fire coming out of the stump?
>>61536519
german imagination everyone
>>61549451
It was a snitch mule so Brazilians put some tires around its head and put it on fire.
Most mythical creatures of russia - ghost of communism. Or you can take google translate and visit on sn on russian imageboards.
Russian creepy more creepy but others.
>>61549036
Which one do you like to be your nightmare?
There's also another female ghost named Hantu Tetek (Kopek). Lit translation, Booby Ghost. This bitch loves to hide people particularly little boys under her humongous boobs, active during sunset/twilight. People trapped under her boobies can see people outside the boobies but outsider cannot see the trapped person. Needs someone with supernatural power to unlift the curse or else, she dragged the body into the forest, lost, and found dead, after years.
>she can transform into hot chick to lure boys. Effect on gay boys is unknown.
>>61549576
oh my god who comes up with this shit
None of the nightmare and no horror story never frightened me like a dream that I burn in the flames of a nuclear explosion. And unlike the fictitious stories - this is real.
>>61549576
definitely the booby ghost
>>61536762
Hello SA brother.
Mexicans in Southside all swear it exists.
>>61549644
i read this post in russian accent
>>61537290
>he's in Spain now
wey
![a10q2_html_m6aca9d2d[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/MLMDhK2.jpg "a10q2_html_m6aca9d2d[1].jpg")
>>61548974
really enjoying the Brazilian stuff, the only thing I knew about was mapinguari.
>>61543717
They can be, there's a papillomavirus that infects rabbits and makes them grow fucked up 'horns' all over their head. They're actually just hardened carcinomas though.
>>61539209
So a Bolivian.
Corpo-seco
Our undead myth! Pretty recent too (more or less 80 years ago)
A guy, known for spanking his parents, was murdered. He was so evil, though, that even his grave rejected him and he started to haunt the cemetery.
The autorithies decided to bury him far away from the city, and a priest told them to do it in a small cave which entrance was close to a small river, as it was said such creatures couldn't cross water. A friend of the defunct volunteered to take him to the new grave, but the priest warned him to take a strong stick, as the dead could rebel.
And the dead man indeed woke up and tried to murder his 'captor', but the spanking did the job.
It is said that every Friday, at midnight, Corpo-seco shows up near streams and lakes, asking passerbys to help him cross the water body, in exchange of telling the place of a hidden treasure cache. Either on the boat or on the helper's back, Corpo-seco starts to gain weight and drowns people or sinks boats, killing his helpers. Others say he sticks near roads, sucking blood from unsuspecting people and avoiding being sent to Hell.
Albeit being a myth from São Paulo, other states have similar myths, and even in Minas Gerais there's a place called 'Serra do Corpo-seco', where people can hear its screams (much like Gollum) when passing nearby.
Skogsrå, a beautiful girl who appears in the woods and can bless your rifle so that the first shot on the field of battle will never miss.
Thing is, she's actually attached to a tree, and you can tell by her back being murky oak.
>>61549957
Kind of like this, but probably not so tumblr
>>61548345
Reminds me of a book I read years ago.
we have many (and many more almost forgotten) here in Sardinia.
There's the Bobotti, like an ogre or "black man" from the mainland, he kidnaps children.
The Mother of the Sun, who's an evil woman supernatural being that roams the streets in the warmest hours (after midday) and also steals children.
The Ammuntadori is a creature that kills people through their dreams, there's also another spirit that gets into people's dreams and is called the "Master of Deceits", but this one only gives nightmares.
And then there's regular shape shifting witches, fairies that make clothes out of gold, forest and rain spirits and demons, devil bulls that hang out with demons, man eater women in the bottom of wells, green horses that grant luck,
>>61550029
etc*
Homem do saco
Takes away children that don't behave and the parents are fed up with them. Such entity would knock on the door of families with naughty children, and the parents would decide if they wanted to give the brag away or not. Noone would never see the taken child again
Sisimique
Is a central america creature, likes to dance in burning forests and their feet are backwards so if you see his footprints you may think you're getting away when in reality you're going to his cave
>tfw Irish folklore creatures all bog standard shit like Banshees, vampires and demons
Boring as fuck. The only remotely interesting one is Balor with his one leg and one eye. Maybe the water horse cunt that comes out and tricks women into riding it and then brings them to the sea to drown them.
>>61548908
Name?
>>61549644
wew
>>61549123
Surely you could have chosen a better picture.
>>61550029
Muh nuraghi
>>61536004
Those aren't technically animals and you forgot the tomtes.
I'm not reading through 157+ replies. Has anyone mentioned the Jersey Devil?
It has the head of a horse, large wings and claws, and has a roughly four-foot-long serpentine body. They say it moves extremely fast and has a blood-curdling scream. Legends go (or I guess went) that it wreaks havoc on farmers' crops and livestock and poisons pools and creeks.
It's also kind of like a banshee (I mean, besides the blood-curdling scream) in that it appears to people as an omen or a warning when some bad shit's gonna happen. When a person sees the Devil, they see an omen of disaster to come. According to early legends, its appearances have come before shipwrecks and the outbreak of war.
IIRC the Jersey Devil was said to have been the child of a witch named Mother Leeds. The baby was born normal but then transformed into a huge winged monster taller than a man. It killed the midwife before flying up the chimney and around the village, then flying off into the forest.
>>61550306
>American trying to do Italian regional bantz
shig
Anhanguera
meaning 'old devil' by the now extinct Goyas natives, it was a real Bandeirante (explorer from São Paulo in the XVII-XVIII centuries) called Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva, nwoadays considered the discoverer where is now the state of Goiás.
Bartolomeu heard of an enormous gold lode in the teritory of the Goyas natives. He was stopped by them when he noticed the natives had way more people and weren't afraid of powder guns. He thought of another way to defeat the stubborn indians (they didn't want foreigners there).
He promised them that in 1 day he would transform water into fire, if they didn't let him pass. The natives were obviously unafraid of that and amassed to the chosen spot to see what that man would do.
He concocted a device made up by a portfire and a powder chamber, sealed from the water. The latter part was under the surface, to give the impression the water was breathing fire. He more or less made some kind of fireworks.
After igniting the portfire, the resulting fire spread quite far and very loudly.
The result was so astounding that the indigenous people treated him like a creature from the myths (as they really believed he made water into fire), and dubbed him Anhanguera.
He never found the aforementioned lode, but another gold mines were discovered and made him quite rich and to live long (more than 80 years old). To this day, other natives still tell the story of an old davil that managed to turn water into fire.
>>61535559
His name is "el martinico".
>>61549576
Right, why was this not in the witcher games.
>>61550382
>I'm not reading through 157+ replies.
Psst. Control-F.
>>61550457
Merrigold is basically that
>>61535559
the 'Terrone'
said to lurk in bars all day doing nothing, found on beaches scratching his balls during summer; his mating call is a gibberish of spat out screams
the worst enemy of the 'Terrone' is the prospect of having to work, wich he runs from doing some barely legal (or often righfully criminal) gimmicks to survive
>>61547600
They are, dwarves are a re-imagining.
Though it's odd to see modern fantasies which always have elves and dwarves, yet they're completely different species? Like wow, what a coincidence.
>>61548793
Yep. (Castillians always say that's not true because they want to diminish our image).
It's more likely that the "Lonia" means just "land", tho. So "Land of Goths". Since the Alan presence was not significative as far as I know (they were more around the Balearic Islands, but not so much in "mainland" Catalonia).
And of course, our old name was "March of Gothia". So a evolution to "land of goths" makes perfect sense. This territory was some kind of gift that the Frankish Empire gave to the Goths as a reward for expelling the moors (the moors didn't stay for even a century here). Large parts of Catalonia were "emtpy" and new towns were founded and repopulated with Goths and other people coming from the north of the Pyrenees.
btw: I don't know if you noticed but I wrote "Tio the Nadal" instead of "Tio de Nadal" in the first text. That's obviously an error.
Some of our myth is shared with Galicia. It differs the further south you go.
Almajonas - litthe, tall wandering spirits of dead mothers and their children.
Alma de Mestre (Master's soul) - The souls of wrestless christian sailors who were lost at see. The cries of gulls are in fact their cries which the gulls carry.
Coca/Coco (female/male) - Things that have flaming pumpkins, coconuts or similar fruits for heads. Origin of the jack'o'lantern.
Maria Gancha/Maria das Grades (Hook/Jailor Maria) - A woman who lives in wells and has the ability to travel underground from well to well . It drags in people who stare into the bottom of the well and puts them inside cages.
Insonho/Pesadelo (Nightmare) - Some hooded guy with a hole on his hands who holds people down while they sleep. People survive because they can breathe through the holes. The only way to take him off you is by removing his hood. He'll run to the rooftops and try to buy the hood back from you.
João Pestana (Eyelash João) - Shy and scaredy man who looks for quiet and dark places. Is startled by noise and people fall asleep when he's close.
Pedro Chosco - It's like the sandman.
Maria da Manta (Covers Maria) - A horned woman with flaming eyes that drags people who fell asleep near rivers and lakes.
Jã - little household fairy people. Trade food for linen cloth. If you don't give food and just the linen, they burn your house.
Peeira - The seventh born daughter. Has the hability to turn into a wolf, control packs of wolves and calm werewolves down. Has an "unealthy" interest for wolves if you know what I mean...
Hirã - The eigth born daughter. Turns into a seasnake when she turns 12.
Rosemunho - Sudden tornadoes that pop up in the middle of crossroads and fuck people up by throwing them across large distances.
Cavalum - A demon than inhabited the island of Madeira before people got there. It's a fire breathing white horse with bat wings who absolutely dislikes people, hence why he lived in a desert island.
>>61550509
>we northerners are not butthurt at all I swear xDD
>>61550537
>>61548793
I didn't mean to write "March of Gothia" but "Duchy of Gothia", sorry. March of Gothia is more ambiguous and usually restricted to French Catalonia.
>>61550518
But I thought they were different in nordic myth.
Elves beings of light, beautiful and immortal that lived in a separate realm, while dwarves/dark elves were shorter, uglier beings that dwelled in dark forests, underground and with darkened skin from their manual labours.
>>61550627
Yes, but they're both elves, which implies they share a common origin. The rivalry between elves and other elves seems a lot more reasonable than between elves and some entirely different race.
>>61550169
Head Prolapse Elegy
>>61549641
Ikr. Lol. Ask the ancestor. 70% of the ghost, ghoul and the likes here have tight vajayjays. So pick one.
>>61549676
Do you like the booby ghost?
Another female ghost is Langsuir. {L-aah-ng-sew-wear}. As you might've guess, a bitch who likes to suck blood, hot chick turned ugly, loves men.
>(Normal boobs tho)
When in the forest or lonely road, if encounter unworldly stench or sweet smells, never talk about it loudly because duh, it's her bait. Best way would be pretend didn't notice the smell till it disappear. Her turf would be messy tangled roots big ol' tree. It can walk and flies. Oh, it can possess and sing too. One of her jam would be this song: http://youtu.be/0Z_zoepU35M
>>61550457
Perhaps no interest in SEA myth legends by the gaming industries. Usually, it's either Japan myth or the chinks. SEA is always not in the spotlight. If I'm them, I will bring fresh ideas from SEA, which is totally new to consumer from the other side of the world.
>>61546990
lmao
>>61550881
would definitely play a game with the boody and the sucker demons
>>61535855
Big ape man thing that lives in the woods
>>61537158
Tell me anon what do you know about barghests?
America has a lot of spooky goblins running around, probably pioneer legends or bedtime inventions that spun into mythology.
Mayans used to call nahual a man who learned enough of his animal companion to the point he was able to chage skins with him
>>61538685
Yes, in Puerto Rico it's more of a humanoid/reptilian/alien creature, but here in Texas and Mexico it's a mangy canine like creature.
After my childhood like experience followed by other people's sighting and even capturing, I'm fully convinced there's something out there which science has yet to catch up to.
Everytime somebody captures one live or at least on camera, it's EXACTLY what I saw. Not a few similarities here and there, but literally the same creature I witnessed running across my grandparents ranch when I was a young boy.
>>61548615
>Tursa
Finnish and Karelian mythology/folklore is fucking dank.
(cont.)
Bicho cidrão - The restless spirit of a shepherd that lives in the isle of Madeira. He is capable of calling storms and leading the sheep.
Bisarma - Gigantic souls, whose legspan cross valleys, who sing monotone songs that can be heard cross country.
Bruxas Lavadeiras (Washing witches) - Witches dressed in white, who run around villages at night holding lamps, steal your clothes and run on rooftops. They have tons of fun washing the clothes they stole in nearby rivers and lakes. If you want your clothes back, go to the nearest river or lake and follow the giggling and laughter of women. If they see you, they turn into ducks and geese and fly away.
Carago (used nowadays as interjection when you're frustrated) - Some sort of warlocks who knew demon speak, summoned demons around fires, could predit the future by hearing the song of birds and did crop circles. They could be somewhat real since these practices were actually banned by law in the middle ages.
Carro da concedeira (The conceder's cart) - A cart driven by the devil who cruised around town gathering witches who proceeded to dance on top. The devil would personally step off the cart and slap you silly if you looked at it.
Cavalo do pensamento (thought horse) - A horse who runs across the sky at high speed and spits fire from eyes and mouth.
Corredor (runner) - the seventh born son. At night, he turns into a wolf/dog and is magically compelled to run through 7 bridges, 7 fountains, 7 mountains, 7 crossroads and 7 dog houses. Make him shed blood and he'll be delivered from the curse.
Corrilário - A special werewolf who can go everywhere he pleases (in Portugal, werewolves only keep to roads). One turns into a Corrilário if the baptism is not done properly, if one breaks too many promises or dies a result of a broken promise.
what up mein neger
>>61546990
In Norse mythology, svartálfar (O.N. "black elves", sing. svartálfr), also called myrkálfar ("dark elves", "dusky elves", "murky elves", sing. myrkálfr), are beings who dwell in Svartalfheim (Svartálf[a]heimr, "home of the black-elves"). Scholars have noted that the svartálfar appear to be synonymous with the dwarfs and potentially also the dökkálfar ("dark elves"). As dwarfs, the home of the svartálfar could possibly be another description for Nidavellir (Niðavellir, "dark fields").
We seriously need more interesting threads like this...
We're so used to the /pol/ threads and other bullshit which happened before our lifetime. We need living interests growing in our discussions.
Tired of the same ol' shit.
>>61535559
The tokoloshe. Dick so long it has to carry it over its shoulder. Even a fucking song about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcK0GjTHv_o
>>61550153
That's funner than pioneer Joe making a spooky story about some tall deer thinger standing on two egs he swore he saw while he was out pissing.
>>61551104
>Pope Lick Monster
WTF
>>61551104
What's crazy is that image doesn't even include 75% of all creature sightings throughout the lower 48.
>tfw none of these are real
>>61551104
>Pope Lick Monster
You fucking Protestants, I swear.
Fradinho da mão furada (Little Pierced Hand Friar) - A little guy dressed in red who can fit through keyholes. Usually a benevolent household fairy, but causes you terrible nightmares if he happens to fall asleep on top of you.
Homém do chapéu de ferro (Man of the iron hat) - A powerful warlock who shows up Sunday midnight and waits near fountains or under trees by the road. He is a tall man wearing a metal hat, has bronze for skin and a large mouth from ear to ear that spits fire and smoke. He makes a living killing and stealing people. He is active for three days, each day he is accompanied by a different black animal: Pig, Rooster, Deer. These are his animal companions who are posessed by demons. He is able to quell storms, which he only does when the demons ask, because he preffers actually fucking up peoples lives by causing wildfires, eartquakes and eruptions.
Velha da égua branca (White Mare Hag) - An old woman riding a white mare, who dresses in white and wears a white veil with red flowing stripes, holding a knife on her left hand and a pan on the right hand. She travels around hitting the knife against the pan. It is said that the only thing the Man of the Iron Hat fears is this woman.
Secular das Nuvens (Cloud Secular) - A group of warlocks who can summon and control storms. To become one, you need only great mathematical knowledge and to kill a man slowly.
>>61552475
that pic is not from Portugal
>>61550029
sardinian folklore is on a whole different level, i love it
>>61552538
I know, I wanted to post this one instead.
I have a collection of masks from everywhere in the same folder.
>>61551772
agree
>>61552653
I love this one >>61551695
>>61552893
Also comes in loli mode.
>>61551104
I'm from Ohio and I have never even heard of the Frogman
>>61551104
The "Skinwalker" is not from that old british horror movie called "Xtro"?
>>61551904
And of COURSE it's Jack Parow. What is the deal with his hat?
![fagerberg[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/kGgbeIH.jpg "fagerberg[1].png")
>>61537365
Can't help you there, but I can tell you for a fact it's filled to the brim with awsome tales.
Such as this one about changelings;
A princess is kidnapped by trolls and replaced with their own offspring against the wishes of the troll mother. The changelings grow up with their new parents, but both find it hard to adapt: the human girl is disgusted by her future bridegroom, a troll prince, whereas the troll girl is bored by her life and by her dull human future groom. Upset with the conditions of their lives, they both go astray in the forest, passing each other without noticing it. The princess comes to the castle whereupon the queen immediately recognizes her, and the troll girl finds a troll woman who is cursing loudly as she works. The troll girl bursts out that the troll woman is much more fun than any other person she has ever seen, and her mother happily sees that her true daughter has returned. Both the human girl and the troll girl marry happily the very same day.
Moro.
He is of evil, you must kill him.
Gabacho
He is of evil, kill him
Portuga
Brings towel real nice and cheap
![big_thumb_1a2931403c50382847e538b16bf62525[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/I7s1BnV.jpg "big_thumb_1a2931403c50382847e538b16bf62525[1].jpg")
>>61547557
The typical troll would be an isolated creature, dim witted, ugly and prone to living in caves with a social family structure much like the humans.
The Ice Giants hail from Niflheim, the "Abode of Mist", and more of a chaotic force rather then thinking beings.
Born from the sweat of the world giant Ymer they crave naught sleep nor sustenance.
The longing for Rangarök and foreverlasting cold is what drives them.
![k%C3%A4llr%C3%A5[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/cs15wXs.jpg "k%C3%A4llr%C3%A5[1].jpg")
I really hope the book "Nordiska Väsen" gets a translation.
It's only available in Swedish as far as i know, but it's totally fucking awsome if you're into mythological beastiariums.
If anyone's intrested the ISBN is; 9789132161438
![IMG_0056[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/izsk6fn.jpg "IMG_0056[1].jpg")
>>61563489
Oh, and the same guy is making a book about norse gods. (which im totally getting)
It's due in about 2 weeks time.
The helhorse
In Denmark, when a new church had to be build, an animal (sometimes a horse) was buried before the construction began.
In case of the the animal being a horse, one of its legs was chopped of and it was buried alive, so that it until the judgement day would be trapped between life and death. This horse would then haunt the local town, showing itself as a decaying body, sometimes without a head. Seeing it either meant that you were going to die, or you could die as a result of seeing it, which could happen if you walked outside a later night. You could hear the helhorse before you could see it because it walked on three legs and the horseshoe on its third hoof wasn't attached properly, giving off a distinct sound when walking.
An example of a site were the helhorse was well known was the Roskilde cathedral. Inside the cathedral on the floor is a giant black gravestone without any inscriptions on. It is said a helhorse is buried beneath and that in the night the helhorse will rise from beneath the stone, and whoever might be inside the church when the helhorse does this, may god have mercy on his soul.
A story:
A father was walking outside on late evening with his daughter. The father at a point finds his daughter looking back and he asks what's wrong. "But dad, didn't you even see the grey horse walking bye?". When they get home the daughter gets terribly sick and dies later.
Another story (not entirely related):
A man walks home alone one night. Upon finding a horse walking bye itself he climbs the horse for a ride home. The man tries to make the horse walk in the middle of the road, but it instead it walks in the side of the road, so the man slaps the horse in its head, which causes its head to fall of. In terror he falls of the horse himself, but as he looks back on the horse, its head is now attached again, starring at the man.
>>61550553
what are these muslim women doing?
