What's your favorite myth/legend/fairytale from your nation?

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Batman

King Arthur

Tenochtitlan foundation

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>>72140573
The Song of Roland then the Song of the Saxons.

Popol Vuh

>What's your favorite myth/legend/fairytale from your nation?
Swedish crusade into funland

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John Henry was also nice to read when I was a kid.

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>>72141502
>The Song of Roland

The saga of Búkolla

the holocaust

>>72140573
The Bible.

>>72140613
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>>72141746
what a great thread

>>72140573
Obama being born in the USA

Robin Hood
He helped the proletariat

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>>72141759
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>>72140613
>>72140573
>not "USA is a white country and always has been"

>>72140573
the american dream

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>>72140573
there's this guarani explanation for eclipse that a blue jaguar eats the sun and they have to pray hard, make lots of noise and throw arrows to the sky or the sun would be eaten forever
then i saw the blue jaguar used in an anime. noice

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>>72141803
OP said from YOUR nation tho

>>72141852
We're still part of the empire lad

>>72141502
Do you remember the face of your father?

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Zwarte Piet

Children actually believe it. The Dutch news also reports stories about it in the weeks leading up the the celebration. And Sinterklaas (from which you stole santa claus) actually arrived in the country by steamboat organized by the government.

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Adamastor the greatest bakemon

>>72141764
Swedish crusades here are a de facto myth. Look it up you doofus.

Tenten vilu and Caicai vilu

>>72141923
ah ok if you say you're a brit diaspora then ok, sorry

>>72141759
ah ok if you say you're a jew diaspora then ok, sorry

>>72142041
The queen's our head of state, your opinion: discarded

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>>72142094
Don b mean to paraguay

>>72141928
What ?

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I just love the language of bylinas.

Interesting how Novgorod cycle is about wealth & fun and Kiev cycle is about Vladimir's orders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIIE0Jb5tDo

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Peau d'âne.

A king had a beautiful wife and a rich castle, including a marvelous donkey whose droppings were gold. One day his wife died, after making him promise not to marry except to a woman whose beauty and attributes equaled hers. The king grieved, but was, in time, persuaded to seek another wife. It became clear that the only woman who would fit the promise was his daughter.

She went to her fairy godmother who advised her to make impossible demands as a condition of her consent: a dress as bright as the sun, a dress the colour of the moon, a dress all the colours of the sky, and finally, the hide of his marvelous donkey (which produced gold, and thus was the source of his kingdom's wealth). Such was the king's desire to marry her that he granted all of them. The fairy godmother gave her a marvelous chest to contain all she owned and told her that the donkeyskin would make an excellent disguise.
Illustration by Gustave Doré

The princess fled and eventually found a royal farm where they let her work in the kitchen, despite her ugliness in the donkeyskin. On feast days, she would dress herself in the fine gowns her father had given her, and one such day, the prince came by her room and peeped through the keyhole. He fell in love at once, fell ill with his longing, and declared that nothing would cure him but a cake baked by Donkeyskin, and nothing they could say of what a dirty creature she was dissuaded him.

When Donkeyskin baked the cake, a ring of hers fell in it. The prince found it and declared that he would marry only the woman whose finger it fit. Every other woman having failed, he insisted that Donkeyskin try, and it fit. When she had dressed herself in her fine gowns, his parents were reconciled with the match. Donkeyskin later found that her father had remarried to a beautiful widow and everyone lived happily ever after, except the donkey.

>>72142313
:3

>>72140573
the 6 gorillion is an amusing fairytale

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCuuRRrfOXo

>>72142038
This

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>>72142847
noice

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>>72141461
This plus

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>>72140573

>>72145192
Salsa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vElesOzhxHw

toire no hanakosan
hanako-san in toilet

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The closest thing to a dragon we have

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>the tameness of american legends

wew

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who else find it bizzare that some folktales can be similar eventhough the folks themselves lie in different part of the world.
Tir na nog legend from ireland and Urashima taro from japan.
can someone enlighten me?

>>72142036
This. Nothing but raiding-parties with a bit of polish.

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>parents tell girl not to play with matches
>she plays with matches
>burns to ashe

german bedtime stories are the best bedtime stories

>>72150751
This was my favourite story when I was little. In my book people found her frozen body on the last page.

>>72140573
johnny appleseed :D

>>72150967
who?
story ends there

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12116/12116-h/12116-h.htm

>>72140573
The no more gasolinazos (increase in gas prices by goverment order)

I want to believe

Niebelungenlied. Pretty ebin

>>72150967
You aren't talking about the little match girl?

>>72140573
That of Kalevala.

The legend of Blenda

According to the legend, the events took place in the time of Alle (Anglo-Saxon Ælla), King of the Geats, when this king lead the Geats in an attack against Norway. King Alle had marshalled not only the West Geats, but also the South Geats (or Riding Geats) of Småland, and so many men had left for Norway that the region was virtually defenseless.

When the Danes learned of Småland's precarious situation, they took advantage of it and attacked the defenseless small lands. Blenda was a woman of noble descent in the Konga Hundred and she decided to send the fiery cross to rally all the womenfolk in the hundreds of Konga, Albo, Kinnevald, Norrvidinge and Uppvidinge. The women armies assembled on the Brávellir, which according to Smålandish tradition is located in Värend and not in Östergötland.

The women approached the Danes and told them how much they were impressed with the Danish men. They invited the men to a banquet where they were provided with food and drink. After a long evening, the Danish warriors fell asleep and the women killed every single one of them with axes and staffs.

When King Alle returned, he bestowed new rights on the women. They acquired equal inheritance with their brothers and husbands, the right always to wear a belt around their waists as a sign of eternal vigilance, the right to beat the drum at weddings, and so forth. The five hundreds were combined into the land of Värend, which means the "defense", since it was a bulwark for Geatland. Blenda's village was called Värnslanda and a location near the battle ground was called Bländinge.

>>72140573
There is a Goblin that fucks you up if you don't sleep the Siesta.

He comes to you in the afternoon, he has a hand covered in wool and the other not. He gives you a choice "Wool or fist". If you choose wool, the goblin then will remove the wool and will reveal that he actually had a metal gauntlet.

He will then proceed to fuck you up with that gauntlet.

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*teleports behind you*

psssh nothin personnel kid

Orpheus.

Legend of the electricity comes from power plug and money from ATM and making the poor squat

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The one about a man who wishes to pour salt on a crow's ass and end sup with his own castle.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey-man_of_Delhi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dullahan

>>72140573
That finns were overlords of us.

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>>72140573
yo'u don't wan't t'o kno'w...

the good and old "brazil is the country of the future"
some people actually still believe in it

>>72150751
the cats are crying. That bad kid made the cats cry, what a little cunt.

>>72157876

hehehe... the best mythology we have.
but i don't think ppl believe in this bullshit any longer.

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>>72140573
Wanda, pre-christian princess of Poland.

She killed herself because she didn't want to marry a German.