what are some legends or folklore from your country or region?
What are some legends or folklore from your country or region?
Mason Barnes
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Carson Jackson
one time we won a football game
t. minnesota
(pretty sure it's just a myth though)
Daniel Brooks
>Yucatan
The "Xtabai" is a beautiful mayan woman that seduces men (specially drunk ones) , takes them into the jungle, and kills them.
Here you can find the reason why she does this:
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Ian Flores
Evan Fisher
Once upon a time, in what's now the state of Oregon, there was a spirit of the underworld named Llao. He climbed out of the top of Mount Mazama and fell in love with Loha, the daughter of a Klamath Indian chief. But she rejected him because he was ugly, so he got butthurt and rained fire down upon the Klamath. So the Klamath turned to the sky god Llao, who descended upon Mount Shasta in what is now far northern California. A furious battle ensued between the two. (Soundtrack: youtube.com
Daniel Allen
Ryder Martin
I live in CT, there's a cove nearby with an island in the middle. When the tide is out, there's a land bridge you can take over there. There's some legend about how one of the ghosts from the nearby graveyards will raise the tides suddenly drown people crossing.
Jayden James
CT, eh? Have you heard about the legend of the Sleeping Giant?
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Matthew Garcia
Once upon we wuz being weighed by our shackles
Then a great Orange legend sails from across the seas
And BTFOs continental cunts
Making Britain Great Again
It's quite spooky if you think about it.. This is a bronze age legend btw.
Isaac Adams
I have heard of the place, but I never knew the story behind the name
There's a lot of random folklore around here, it mostly amounts to graveyard superstitions though
Nathaniel Martin
bump
James Wright
Ryder Harris
>Guardian Rübezahl (Polish: Liczyrzepa, Duch Gór, Karkonosz, Rzepiór, or Rzepolicz; Czech: Krkonoš or Krakonoš) is a folklore mountain spirit (woodwose) of the Krkonoše Mountains (Giant Mountains, Riesengebirge, Karkonosze), a mountain range along the border between the historical lands of Bohemia and Silesia. He is the subject of many legends and fairy tales in German, Polish, and Czech folklore.
>In legends, Rübezahl appears as a capricious giant, gnome, or mountain spirit. With good people he is friendly, teaching them medicine and giving them presents. If someone derides him, however, he exacts a severe revenge. He sometimes plays the role of a trickster in folk tales.[3]
>The stories originate from pagan times. Rübezahl is the fantastic Lord of Weather of the mountains and is similar to the Wild Hunt. Unexpectedly or playfully, he sends lightning and thunder, fog, rain and snow from the mountain above, even while the sun is shining. He may take the appearance of a monk in a gray frock (like Wotan in his mantel of clouds); he holds a stringed instrument in his hand (the storm harp), and walks so heavily that the earth trembles around him.[citation needed]
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Nathan Johnson
There's this god of air and smithing in finnish mythos who went to pohjola (evil land) to find the maiden of pohjola who was the most beautiful in the land. To gain her hand he had to forge a machine that would create wealth out of nothing and forever, was it grain or gold. Well he spent days upon days failing at making the machine the way it was intended. and after two weeks of failure and anger he has created it. The sampo. Now that his end of the bargain was fulfilled he went and asked the hand of the maiden. She refused and the guy was forced to leave without a groom.
Brayden Moore
Was that machine one of the driving forces behind the success of the ancient FINNIC empire?
Robert Rogers
No it was a evil thing and was thrown to the sea by Väinämöinen
Brody Rodriguez
every christmas you're supposed to put out porridge with butter for the house tomte (basically a garden gnome, later morphed into jultomten aka santa). A woman once put the butter on the bottom of the bowl instead of the top, so the tomte thought he hadn't gotten any butter. So naturally he went out and punched one of their cows to death in rage. Then he ate the porridge anyway and saw the butter was on the bottom, so he like magically enchanted their cows or something as an apology.
Adam Ortiz
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Blake Butler
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Gabriel Rodriguez
the holocaust
Hunter Martin
Based
Carson Foster
> goonbag norm
one day this bloke norm got off his rocker on a slab and 2 bags of shiraz. he got so fucked he killed himself by jumping off the top of the centrelink in newcastle, when we went splat on the pavement, his insides burst, causing all the goon and XXXX to be violently splattered everywhere around him. they say if you walk past the newcastle centrelink and offer a bag of goon to goonbag norm, he'll give you good luck at the greyhounds, but If you drink the goon in front of his resting place, he will be really fuckin pissed, and drain you of your blood and ferment it into goon.
Justin Nelson
There was once people called Thamud who lived in the Hijaz area in Saudi Arabia. Allah sent down a prophet called Saleh to guide them to the true path. At first they doubted Prophet Saleh but with time they accepted his message. When they did, the leaders of Thamud were angry so they asked Prophet Saleh to send down a camel. Allah responded to Saleh's prayers and sent down a camel to them.
The camel sent down gave a lot of milk to the people of Thamud and a lot of Thamud converted. However, the leaders of Thamud grew furious and slaughtered the camel. Saleh told them that they will be punished for their wrongdoings and took his followers with him to travel away from the Hijaz. They say that afterwards they were struck with an earthquake that killed all of the people of Thamud living in Hijaz.
The people of Thamud aren't some legend or myth because if you were to go to the mountainous regions in the western deserts of KSA, you will find weird writings and monuments scattered between the mountains. However, there is little to no information about their civilization except that they were the ones who created Madain Saleh.
Juan Russell
having sex with woman
Alexander Lewis
>Look up Headless Horseman on wiki to learn more
>The first sentence literally says it's European
Isaiah Green
In other words: West Slavic.
Jason Anderson
Folklore is a part of culture, not necessarily ethnic heritage.
Lucas Perez
yesterday the genes, today the folklore, where does it stop ?
Jason Nelson
Kirkonväki is a subclass of Kalmanväki, an undead folk that congregate in the church during night to hold a mass lead by dead priest. Not exactly evil but do not really appreciate being disturbed so if you hear mass during night it is better to steer clear.
Easton Russell
nice thread bump