Folk culture from around the world!
Tell us about mysterious customs and beliefs from your region.
Sceptics/athiests aren't welcome, we just want to hear about your folk customs!
Folk culture from around the world!
Ryan Rogers
Joshua Adams
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Logan Gutierrez
Tell us the story!
Dominic Reed
They dress up like that for carnival.
Jace Garcia
I would love to see that. Hispanic customs like this definitely have a great atmosphere.
Julian Perez
Every country from around the world is welcome here.
Don't forget to post music, too.
Xavier Bennett
They do, southern Galicia has a big carnival tradition. Each town has their own shit.
Evan Allen
Have my favorite muiñeira
Easton Diaz
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Ayden Johnson
Maslenitsa, for exhample.
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Ayden King
There's so much going on here, wish the UK was like that.
Joseph Turner
You have Guy Fawkes night, don't you?
Austin Morris
Despite their looks they're not part of a carnival, no one is sure of how they looked in pre-columbian times.
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Lucas Powell
>Despite their looks they're not part of a carnival, no one is sure of how they looked in pre-columbian times.
same with this guys
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Jace Richardson
I'm from Paris, so there aren't many mysterious customs around. We have quite a few legends like the story of Saint Denis, classic urban legends like crocodiles in the sewers, famous ones like the story of the "Phantom of the Opera" creepy places like the catacombs, but that's pretty much it.
Levi Davis
Fortunately we still have some depictions of how Mayans dressed to fight. As part of a carnival some guys in Southern-Central Mexico still figh but as jaguars
Jordan Myers
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Benjamin Johnson
Nolan Taylor
Boojum is best known by his two great loves: a fondness of pretty girls and his desire for the precious gemstones found throughout Western North Carolina such as rubies, amethysts, emeralds, and sapphires. It is said that in the early 1900’s, it was not uncommon for women bathing in secluded mountain streams to find they were being watched by Boojum from beneath the camouflage of mountain laurels or rhododendron bushes. The startled women would quickly grab their belongings and run away. This often conjured up an angry pack of men from the surrounding area to hunt the Boojum down, but never was he caught. He most surely retreated to one of his many hidden caves in the Balsams where he lived and hoarded his collection of gemstones. Though it is rare for anyone to find his caves, he has created a unique way of protecting his jewels by storing them at the bottom of stone jugs. He then fills the jugs with”pert’nin juice” or what is most commonly known as moonshine. Even if a gem seeker should happen to find one of his many jugs, no self-respecting mountaineer would dare waste this coveted liquid by pouring it on the ground. They would drink the contents until empty which would then be followed by a long, deep sleep. Boojum would return in the meantime and retrieve his gems, leaving the thief with nothing but a splitting headache when he awoke.
Basically an 8 FT tall leprechaun type thing in the area.
Lucas Harris
bump
Joseph Perez
Scissor dance, was originally a dance in honor to the mountain gods in inca and pre-inca times, the interesting thing about this dance is that some moves resemble modern breakdance.
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