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Weird Creatures Thread 2015-12-17 23:18:16 Post No. 17096677
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>inb4 OPs mom
The characteristic of cynocephaly, having the head of a dog—or of a jackal—is a widely attested mythical phenomenon existing in many different forms and contexts.
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>>17096677
I've heard this too. But why dogs? Aren't they supposed to be protectors/guardians of the underworld? Some of them can have more heads than one, or retain human characteristics, have no heads or bird wings etc
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The Dover Demon is a small humanoid reported from Dover, Massachusetts. It was the subject of an intensive scare during the 1970s, when multiple witnesses came forward with their sightings.
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>>17096787
Human bodies with anything that shouldn't be there is pretty spooky
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The kappa is typically depicted as roughly humanoid in form and about the size of a child. Its scaly reptilian skin ranges in color from green to yellow or blue.
Used to keep Jap children from playing in dangerous water.
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A red cap or redcap, also known as a powrie or dunter, is a type of malevolent murderous dwarf, goblin, elf or fairy found in Border Folklore. They are said to inhabit ruined castles found along the border between England and Scotland. Redcaps are said to murder travellers who stray into their homes and dye their hats with their victims' blood (from which they get their name).
Redcaps must kill regularly, for if the blood staining their hats dries out, they die. Redcaps are very fast in spite of the heavy iron pikes they wield and the iron-shod boots they wear. Outrunning a redcap is supposedly impossible
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Satyr is one of a troop of ithyphallic male companions of Dionysus with horse-like (equine) features, including a horse-tail, horse-like ears, and sometimes a horse-like phallus because of permanent erection
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Kelpie, or water kelpie, is the Scots name given to a shape-shifting water spirit inhabiting the lochs and pools of Scotland. It has usually been described as appearing as a horse, but is able to adopt human form. Some accounts state that the kelpie retains its hooves when appearing as a human, leading to its association with the Christian idea of Satan.
The origin of the belief in malevolent water horses has been proposed as originating in human sacrifices once made to appease gods associated with water, but narratives about the kelpie also served a practical purpose in keeping children away from dangerous stretches of water, and warning young women to be wary of handsome strangers.
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>>17096890
he looks as bored as i feel.
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In European bestiaries and legends, a basilisk is a legendary reptile reputed to be king of serpents and said to have the power to cause death with a single glance. According to the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder, the basilisk of Cyrene is a small snake, "being not more than twelve fingers in length," that is so venomous, it leaves a wide trail of deadly venom in its wake, and its gaze is likewise lethal; its weakness is in the odor of the weasel, which, according to Pliny, was thrown into the basilisk's hole, recognizable because all the surrounding shrubs and grass had been scorched by its presence.
It is possible that the legend of the basilisk and its association with the weasel in Europe was inspired by accounts of certain species of Asiatic snakes (such as the king cobra) and their natural predator, the mongoose.
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Behold... The nightwalkers..
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ziB35K9shuI
There's something terrifying about this video.
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The Axehandle Hound (sometimes spelled as axhandle hound, ax-handle hound, or similar), is an American fearsome critter of Minnesota and Wisconsin. Overall, it resembles a dog with a roughly axe-like shape. It has a head shaped like an axe blade hence the name, complemented by a handle-shaped body atop short stubby legs. It subsists on a diet consisting entirely on the handles of axes which have been left unattended.[
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Ammit lived near the scales of justice in Duat, the Egyptian underworld. In the Hall of Two Truths, Anubis weighed the heart of a person against the feather of Ma'at, the goddess of truth, which was depicted as an ostrich feather (the feather was often pictured in Ma'at's headdress). If the heart was judged to be not pure, Ammit would devour it, and the person undergoing judgement was not allowed to continue their voyage towards Osiris and immortality. Once Ammit swallowed the heart, the soul was believed to become restless forever; this was called "to die a second time". Ammit was also sometimes said to stand by a lake of fire. In some traditions, the unworthy hearts were cast into the fiery lake to be destroyed. Some scholars believe Ammit and the lake represent the same concept of destruction.
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>>17096933
Is it that fact that nothing is happening, there's no way to explain it and that you can totally see it and it isn't blurry
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The bunyip is a large mythical creature from Australian Aboriginal mythology, said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes. The origin of the word bunyip has been traced to the Wemba-Wemba or Wergaia language of Aboriginal people of South-Eastern Australia.
However, the bunyip appears to have formed part of traditional Aboriginal beliefs and stories throughout Australia, although its name varied according to tribal nomenclature.
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Hidebehind, a brute which would seize unwary lumberjacks and devour them, and was said to be so swift that it could hide behind the nearest tree before a man turned around.
No one actually knows what it looked like because, they hide behind stuff... So no pic
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>>17096959
I think it's the way they move. I also cant figure out how a person can make such a costume, meaning it could be real. They have no torso. Its just legs and head. Brrrrr fuck dat. Fuck yosemite. Fuck america. I'll stick to England ta.
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>>17097000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXrmRW_v1s8
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The Hoop Snake is a snake which bites its tail to enable it to roll like a wheel
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>>17096994
>le kill all jews
Outdated meme, friend
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The Kapre is a filthy giant who likes to smoke huge rolls of cigars, and hide within, and atop large trees, particularly the balete and old acacia or mango trees. A Filipino bigfoot, it scares away little children who play at night.[4] If you're stuck in a place and you keep going around in circles, you said to be played around with by a Kapre. To escape its control, you must remove your shirt/clothing, and wear it inside-out.
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>>17096890
he would suck childrens anuses out from underwater
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>>17097148
Forgot pic
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>>17097118
It's the meme that keeps on giving, anon. It never gets old.
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>>17097151
Kek'd
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A Sarimanok is a magical, mythical bird who brings good luck to anyone who are able to catch it. A Sarimanok known as Magaul is associated with the legend of Malakas and Maganda. Magaul was the Sarimanok bird that pecked the bamboo from where Malakas and Maganda were born from
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Spring-heeled Jack is an entity in English folklore of the Victorian era. The first claimed sighting of Spring-heeled Jack was in 1837.Later sightings were reported all over Great Britain and were especially prevalent in suburban London, the Midlands and Scotland.
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The Krampus is a horned beast that accompanies Santa during Christmas time. Krampus role in Christmas was to take away naughty children and then torture them or eat them for being bad. He'd carry them in his basket that he carried on his back
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>>17096890
This guy
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The Mothman is part man part moth. Mothman has said to be spotted mostly within West Virginias Point Pleasent. It's home is thought to be the old TNT factory within the town. People believe Mothman warns people of danger before they happen in the area he is spotted in. Reasons for this is because the gold bridge that collapsed during and which people said they saw him
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The Flatwoods Monster, also known as the Braxton County Monster or the Phantom of Flatwoods, is an alleged unidentified extraterrestrial or cryptid reported to have been sighted in the town of Flatwoods in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States, on September 12, 1952. Stories of the creature are an example of a purported close encounter of the third kind.[1]
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>>17096677
Try using the catalog sometime, OP.
>>17095316
>>17095316
>>17095316
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>>17097295
No one doesn't make threads just from seeing another thread similar to the thread they want to make
Stupid faggot
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>>17097295
This thread is better
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>>17096787
It's literally the most basic "weird" creature anyone can come up with.
"Sooo it's a guy... but with a dog's head".
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The Tennessee Wildman is thought to be some sort of Bigfoot. He supposedly has either dark grey hair or dark ginger hair, is about 7 feet tall and is always accompanied with piercing red eyes. It is known to spout out a disturbing war cry that can frighten anyone that hears it and has a horrible smell that's reminiscent to the Skunk Ape. It's very aggressive in behavior and could possibly be the archenemy of Sasquatch ironically, often fighting for territory reasons. Not surprisingly the Wildman possesses great strength, agility and speed. There have been many groups of men that have went out hunting for the creature but all the times, usually they don't find anything or something traumatizing happens. The monster is known to have a strange targeting obsession with dogs and women. Many women came out to say the Wildman had attempted to snatch them up and carry them away. It is suspected, however, that these attempts were always unsuccessful.
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The Owlman, sometimes referred to as the Cornish Owlman, or the Owlman of Mawnan, is a purported owl-like cryptid that was supposedly sighted around mid-1976 in the village of Mawnan, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom The Owlman is sometimes compared to America's Mothman in cryptozoological literature. Some think that the Owl man is the Mothman
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>>17097287
This thing always just looked like a short angry nun to me. Then again that's pretty terrifying anyway.
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According to the tale that dates back to the mid 1700s, the Headless Nun was an 18th-century resident of the area named Sister Marie Inconnue (Inconnue being the French for 'unknown') who was subsequently beheaded.Details of the story vary: in one version, a "mad trapper" cut off her head and ran into the woods with it. In another, two sailors cut off her head after she refused to divulge the location of a treasure. The story holds that Sister Marie's head was never found, resulting in her spirit forever roaming the area in search of it. Today, "Headless Nun" tours are among the tourist attraction offerings at French Fort Cove.
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The Minnesota Dog-Man is an alleged cryptid sighted in various Minnesota counties. It is similar to the Michigan Dogman and The Beast of Bray Road. It could very well be the same type of creature.
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The Gee-Gee Bird is a strange bird reported to live in North America. It was described by the soldiers of World War II who were positioned in Alaska. Although never seen, the bird could be heard making a strange noise as it flew by. It made the sound “Gee-gee-geezus-its-cold”, hence the name Gee-Gee Bird.
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Popobawa
The Popobawa is an evil spirit that allegedly thrives on the island of Pemba, near Tanzania in Africa. It has caused mass panic over the years. The Popobawa is said to be a bat-like creature with one eye. It is medium sized and has leathery skin. In Swahili the Popobawa's name means "bat wing".
This creature is a shapeshifter, being able to transform into anything
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The Yule Cat (Icelandic: Jólakötturinn or Jólaköttur) is a monster from Icelandic folklore, a huge and vicious cat said to lurk about the snowy countryside during Christmas time and eat people who have not received any new clothes to wear before Christmas Eve. The Yule Cat has become associated with other figures from Icelandic folklore as the house pet of the giantess Grýla and her sons, the Yule Lads.
The threat of being eaten by the Yule Cat was used by farmers as an incentive for their workers to finish processing the autumn wool before Christmas. The ones who took part in the work would be rewarded with new clothes, but those who did not would get nothing and thus would be preyed upon by the monstrous cat. The cat has alternatively been interpreted as merely eating away the food of ones without new clothes during Christmas feasts. The perception of the Yule Cat as a man-eating beast was partly popularized by the poet Jóhannes úr Kötlum in his poem Jólakötturinn.
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A troll cat (also milk rabbit, troll ball) is the familiar of a witch in Scandinavian folklore. Either in the shape of a cat or a ball, troll cats sucked milk from cows and spat it out in the witches' milk pails, and went into homes to lick up cream. Related creatures are milk hares and milk rabbits.
They were created using human hair, nails and shaving wood
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The Mad Gasser of Mattoon (also known as the "Anesthetic Prowler", Friz, the "Phantom Anesthetist", the "Mad Gasser of Roanoke", or simply the "Mad Gasser") was the name given to the person or people believed to be responsible for a series of apparent gas attacks that occurred in Botetourt County, Virginia, during the early 1930s, and in Mattoon, Illinois, during the mid-1940s.
Whether the attacks were anything more than a case of mass hysteria, if the individual reports were connected, and the ultimate explanation for the events all remain debated.
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White Death, also known as the Alaskan Tiger, is a large feline that inhabits the swampy areas outside Paxson.
Nowadays people don't see it as often
It is said for very human it kills it gains a new stripe on it's back
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According to the legend, Boo Hags are similar to vampires. Unlike vampires, they gain sustenance from a person's breath, as opposed to their blood, by riding their victims.[1][2][3]
They have no skin, and thus are red. In order to be less conspicuous, they will steal a victim's skin and use it for as long as it holds out, wearing it as one might wear clothing. They will remove and hide this skin before going riding.
When a hag determines a victim is suitable for riding, the hag will generally gain access to the home through a small crack, crevice, or hole. The hag will then position themselves over the sleeping victim, sucking their breath. This act renders the victim helpless, and induces a deep dream-filled sleep. The hag tends to leave the victim alive, so as to use them again for their energy. However, if the victim struggles, the hag may take their skin, leaving the victim to suffer. After taking the victim's energy, the hag flies off, as they must be in their skin by dawn or be forever trapped without skin. When the victim awakes, they may feel short of breath, but generally the victim only feels tired.
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According to legend, the Golden Bear was a large golden Ursus arctos. Members of the Ursus arctos (brown bear) species can reach masses of 130–700 kilograms (290–1,540 lb). The grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) and the Kodiak bear are North American subspecies of the brown bear.
A great Golden Bear was reported in the area of Turner, Kansas. According to John Gardiner in 1831, it was feared and admired by the local Indian population. The bear lived south of the river in the hills west of the Methodist Mission. According to legend, it was the largest bear that any of the natives had ever seen. It would raid the settlements of the area folks and feasted on the animals owned by the local population (the Shawnee tribe). Many of the Indians wanted to kill the bear for the pride of such a feat and the capture of its hide (the fur was most sought after). The Golden Bear was seen several times by the ferry crew on the Old Grinter Ferry during the 1830s and 1840s. Both the Shawnee and the Wyandot gathered a hunting party, but were unsuccessful in tracking the bear down.
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The area was settled by German immigrants beginning in the 1730s. Early accounts describe the community being terrorized by a monster called a Schneller Geist, meaning "quick spirit" in German. The earliest incarnations mixed the half-bird features of a siren with the nightmarish features of demons and ghouls. The Snallygaster was described as half-reptile, half-bird with a metallic beak lined with razor-sharp teeth, occasionally with octopus-like tentacles. It swoops silently from the sky to pick up and carry off its victims. The earliest stories claim that this monster sucked the blood of its victims. Seven-pointed stars, which reputedly kept the Snallygaster at bay, can still be seen painted on local barns.
It has been suggested the legend was resurrected in the 19th century to frighten freed slaves.
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>>17097498
best one
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Two-Toed Tom is a legendary alligator in the Southern United States who terrorized swamp residents along the Alabama-Florida border. His name came from the fact that all but two toes had been lost in a steel trap. Two-Toed Tom attacked people and animals, and despite the use of guns and dynamite, locals could never kill him. Tracks of a massive alligator with only two toes were seen as recently as the 1980s.
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A joint snake is a mythical creature of the Southern United States, the myth likely having spread elsewhere.
Supposedly, the snake can break itself (or be cut) into pieces and will reassemble itself. It is said that if a piece of the snake is taken and the pocket knife used to cut the snake is set down in the place of the snake's piece, the knife will join up with the whole of the snake. The myth is probably based on legless lizards that can regenerate their tails after they are broken off.[1] Such lizards are often called joint, or, more commonly, glass snakes. May also be a reference to the Hydra in Greek Mythology.
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>>17096917
Dionysus is surrounded by a lot of cool lore. Shame that they're all depicted as basically devil worshipers, I'm not sure that's a fair portrayal.
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>>17096819
I'm not making any actual claims, but I'd put forward that that time frame seems to fit with when the Russians would be able to utilize the genetic research they got from Nazi scientists.
Not to derail the thread, but consider this. The Roswell crash was intentional, done by the Russians in a remotely controlled craft inhabited with terribly grotesque beings (possibly just horribly misshapen children or chimps). They crash the ship and hope America loses their shit over an invasion from Mars. The dover demon is basically a "Roswell crash inhabitant" version 2.0.
I'm not making any absolute claims, but it's definitely interesting to think about and makes just as much sense to me as whatever else has been proposed.
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>>17096938
>The Axehandle Hound (sometimes spelled as axhandle hound, ax-handle hound, or similar), is an American fearsome critter of Minnesota and Wisconsin. Overall, it resembles a dog with a roughly axe-like shape. It has a head shaped like an axe blade hence the name, complemented by a handle-shaped body atop short stubby legs.
Okay, I'm listening...
>It subsists on a diet consisting entirely on the handles of axes which have been left unattended.
wat
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>>17097014
The first videos were pretty obviously just some idiot with too much time on his hands and a weird fucking suit. That one is pretty obviously a shoop. Look how they fucking move, it was much more fluent in the first videos. Also the pixelation doesn't match the creatures at all. Piss-poor vid probably made for some HS comp sci project or something.
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>>17097217
They always leave the most interesting bits out
>breathes blue fire
>shapeshifts
Most often he took the shape of a well-dressed man with a whacky face, but also is purported to take the shape of a purple gorilla or tiger. Several cases see him taking the appearing of a police officer in an attempt to gain entry, only to later breathe fire on them.
Probably just some old-timey fraternity prank or something, but I still think it's a fun story. At the very least it was in pretty fucking poor taste.
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>>17096844
Oh! that's fucking funny retard.
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>>17097295
There are at least 5 subjects with more than one thread. Moderation is practically non-existent on this board.
There are like 4 girl noory threads, and probably about the same amt of "zomg this homeless dude looks just like Kubrick" threads. I'd take two cryptid threads any day over the rest, personally.
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>>17096677
how about yes
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>>17096904
Wow, genuinely interesting. Haven't heard that before
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopod_(creature)
Monopods (also sciapods, skiapods, skiapodes) are mythological human creatures with a single, large foot extending from a leg centered in the middle of their bodies. The name Skiapodes is derived from σkιάποδες - "shadow feet" in Greek, monopod from 'one legged' in Greek.
Apparently these things attacked the Vikings that visited the island that I live on about 1,000 years ago.
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The mapinguari or mapinguary (Spanish pronunciation: [mapiŋɡwaˈɾi]), also known as the Isnashi [isˈnaʃi], is a legendary cryptid said to resemble an ape–like creature with red fur living in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil and Bolivia. The name is usually translated as “the roaring animal” or “the fetid beast”.
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>>17099186
You don’t have to be gay to like Monopod, you just have to be gay to be Monopod… or to be Monopod, you have to be gay. I guess what we’re saying here at Channel 5 is Monopod is gay, and so is that milkshake
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The Nain Rouge, French for "red dwarf", is a mythical creature that some believe originated in Normandy, France,as a type of lutin. Contrary viewpoints speculate that the alleged creature is more closely related to the Algonquin myths of "Glooscap" who, it is said, created protective nature spirits and dwarves in the Midwestern United States.Original legends tell of the creature being seen as a protector of Detroit, Michigan, but, due to modern interpretations, is now feared by its residents as "the harbinger of doom."
Detroit urban legend Edit
His appearance is said to presage terrible events for the city. The Nain Rouge appears as a small childlike creature with red or black fur boots. He is also said to have "blazing red eyes and rotten teeth." (Skinner 1896)
The creature is said to have attacked the first white settler of Detroit in 1701, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac who, soon after, lost his fortune. The creature is also said to have appeared on July 30, 1763 before the Battle of Bloody Run, where 58 British soldiers were killed by Native Americans from Chief Pontiac's tribe. The small tributary of the Detroit River which still flows through what is now Elmwood Cemetery turned red with blood for days after the battle. It is said he was seen dancing on the banks of the Detroit River.
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The Piasa (/ˈpaJ.əsɔː/ py-ə-saw) or Piasa Bird is a Native American dragon depicted in one of two murals painted by Native Americans on bluffs (cliffsides) above the Mississippi River. Its original location was at the end of a chain of limestone bluffs in Madison County, Illinois at present-day Alton, Illinois.
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The shunka warakin (also shunka warak'in) is an animal mentioned in American folklore that is said to resemble a wolf, a hyena, or both. According to cryptozoologist Loren Coleman, shunka warak'in is an Ioway term meaning "carries off dogs". Coleman suggested that the creature was some animal unknown to modern sources.
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The Tailypo is usually described as being the size of a dog, with yellow or red eyes, pointed ears and a long tail. In some versions of the folktale, it has tufted ears like a bobcat. It is covered in black or dark brown fur to camouflage its nocturnal activities. Its claws are its main weapon.
The Tailypo can speak like a man, and demands the return of its tail (the actual phrase varies between versions, but is always repeated, usually three times): "Taily-po, Taily-po...who has my Taily-po..."
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The Argopelter is a mythical fearsome critter said to inhabit hollow trees of the conifer woods from Maine to Oregon.From this vantage point, the creature would await an unwary person and hurl wooden splinters and branches at the intruder.Some have described the creature as being so quick that it has never been seen.One reference describes the creature as having a "slender, wirely body, the villainous face of an ape, and arms like muscular whiplashes, with which it can snap off dead branches and hurl them through the air like shells from a six inch gun."The argopelter subsists on woodpeckers, hoot owls,high-holes,and dozy (rotten) wood. Its pups are born on February 29 and always arrive in odd numbers.
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Demon Cat (or D.C.) is the name given to the ghost of a cat which is purported to haunt the government buildings of Washington, D.C.
The story of the Demon Cat dates back to the days when cats were brought into the basement tunnels of the Capitol buildings to kill rats. Legend states that the Demon Cat is one who never left. Its home is supposedly the basement crypt of the Capitol which was originally intended as a burial chamber for President George Washington.
According to legend, the cat is seen before presidential elections and tragedies in Washington, D.C.,allegedly being spotted by White House security guards the nights before the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln.The cat is described as fully black and the size of an average house cat;but witnesses report that the cat swells to "the size of a giant tiger", 10 feet by 10 feet, when alerted. The cat would then either explode or pounce at the witness, disappearing before it managed to catch its 'victim'.
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Nguma-monene is a cryptid supposedly living in the Republic of Congo, described as being like a large lizard with a serrated ridge on its back. It could be related to Mokele Mbembe as they both come from the same background and both resemble dinosaurs.
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The Vegetable lamb of Tartary (Latin: Agnus scythicus or Planta Tartarica Barometz[1]) is a legendary zoophyte of Central Asia, once believed to grow sheep as its fruit.[2] The sheep were connected to the plant by an umbilical cord and grazed the land around the plant. When all accessible foliage was gone, both the plant and sheep died.
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In Philippine mythology, Ekek (or Ek Ek) are creatures who are bird-like humans. They are winged-humans who search for victims at night. They hunger for flesh and blood. They are usually described s as flying creatures that look like the Manananggal but are unable to divide or split their body. Apart from the Manananggal, they are also associated to the Wak Wak because of some similar characteristics. The only difference between a Wak Wak and Ekek is that Ekek has a bill like birds whereas the Wak Wak has none.
The Ekek can transform into a huge bird/bat at night and prowls. Similar to the Manananggal, the Ekek looks for sleeping pregnant women. Then it extends a very long proboscis into the womb and kills the fetus by draining its blood. It is said that while this is taking place, a "ek-ek-ek" sound is often heard. The Ekek fools people into thinking it is far by producing a faint sound when it is actually near.
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An emere, in traditional Yoruba culture, is a child who can travel between the spiritual and physical world at will. A negative connotation is associated with the word, as it implies that a family's child may disappear and reappear at will. The impatient emere wants the best of heaven and Earth. An emere is a spirit in disguise, misrepresenting death as life, and is clever enough to disguise his objectives. Believed to be more powerful than witches, they most often die on a particular day of joy. On wedding days, when having their first baby, graduation from university etc. depending on the degree of happiness the event might cause. They are also believed to be extremely pretty, and have seductive powers.
The emere gives unconditional support to heaven while on earth, distorting the balance of power, betraying Earth and its followers, annoyed that Earth did not allow visitors from heaven.
An emere is usually considered a female.
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The char man is a horribly burnt man on fire. Originally he was with his father in the woods when suddenly a forest fire started. When the firemen came in they couldn't find the boy but they found the fathers skin strung up on a tree.
The legend states that if you were to stop your car where the incident occurred the charman will run towards you and try to peel of your skin to take as your own
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Headless mule - it a curse of a priest that become this creature to haunt people on the rural places and only stop to become his human form on the next day
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"The sea bishop or bishop-fish was a type of sea monster reported in the 16th century. According to legend, it was taken to the King of Poland, who wished to keep it. It was also shown to a group of Catholic bishops, to whom the bishop-fish gestured, appealing to be released. They granted its wish, at which point it made the sign of the cross and disappeared into the sea."
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Mairu (plural: mairuak), also called Maideak, Mairiak, Saindi Maidi (in Lower Navarre), Intxisu in the Bidasoa valley are creatures of Basque mythology. They were giants who built dolmens or harrespil. Like the dolmens, they are only found in mountains. They are often associated with lamia, though these are known in all the Basque Country.
Mairu means "moor" in Basque.[1] This term is used with the sense of 'non-Christian' to refer to former civilizations or megalithic monuments.
In parts of Spain, any ancient monument was popularly attributed to the age of Moorish domination. The origin of the Mairu is thought to be as old as the "mouros encantados" in Portuguese (Spanish: moros encantados), who are thought to be the remnant of old pre-Roman deities.
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I once saw some animu style r34 of blemmyae on infinitechong's /monster/.
God, I wish I could find those again.
"The Blemmyes (Latin Blemmyae) were a nomadic Nubian tribal kingdom that existed from at least 600 BC to the 8th century AD.[1] They were described in Roman histories of the later empire. From the late 3rd century on, along with another tribe, the Nobadae, they repeatedly fought the Romans. They were said to live in Africa, in Nubia, Kush, or Sudan.[2]
They also became fictionalized as a legendary race of acephalous (headless) monsters who had eyes and mouths on their chest."
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Llamhigyn Y Dwr, also known as Water Leaper is a malicious creature from Welsh mythology and folklore that lived in swamps, ponds, rivers, and lakes. It was said to be a giant, limbless frog or toad with a bat's membranous wings (sometimes even a bird's feathery wings) and a long, reptilian tail with a large stinger at the tip. It leapt across the water using its wings, hence its name. Its favorite prey were fish, poor sheep who wandered too close to the water's edge, or even fishermen! It was said that its appearance alone was to strike one dead, never mind its venomous stinger or blood-curdling screech. Llamhigyn Y Dwr was said to shriek, which stunned its prey, leap up from the water and snap the fishing line of fishermen, dragging the poor soul into the water's abyss, only to be speedily engulfed by a malignant, and quite insatiable, maw. There have not been any modern sightings, so if it existed, it might be endangered or extinct, possibly due to hunting.
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>>17096890
Holy shit that's a rare fucking pepe.
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>>17099999
Checoed
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>>17097498
probably a joke created by the ayys
fucking kek
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>>17099186
how that thing even moves?
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>>17100201
yeah i made thread about this, also demiurge
check infinitybooru
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>>17100960
Thank you, kind anon.
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>>17098983
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>>17096890
Can't stop imagining that little guy talking like Yoda now. Read once that Lucas based how Yoda talked after the Japanese language. After learning some in college it does make sense.
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>>17098934
It's part of a lore called "Fearsome Critters" created and spread mainly by lumberjacks. I literally created the Wikipedia articles about them and the creatures involved as part of a high school project, it's neat to see that it's still around although it has now been completely rewritten. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fearsome_critters
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>>17097509
This thing looks metal as fuck.
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The Devil Monkey is a cryptozoological giant monkey reported on June 26, 1997 in Dunkinsville, Ohio. It was reportedly around 5 ft (~1.5 m) tall and had long, pointed ears. It appeared to be grey, had large, dark eyes, long arms, a short tail, and had hair all over its body about 1.5 in (~4 cm) long, and is reportedly aggressive. On January 12, 2006, a similar creature was reported in Chicago, Illinois, about the size and shape of a dog; another such creature was reported in Roanoke, Virginia in the 1990s. It apparently walked on its legs while using its knuckles one at a time; they have also been reported to sometimes move by jumping, have flat, rounded feet, and are sometimes reportedly mistaken for kangaroos or wallabies, and often reported to resemble werewolves or baboons. They have been reported from as far as Louisiana, New Brunswick, and Alaska, and have been included in Choctaw folklore. They have also been reported in the American Midwest.
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>>17096677
Bump
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>>17101097
I bet it's some kind of mandrill or something like that. People think an exotic pet is a good idea until they realize "oh fuck this is a wild animal". It's kinda how constrictors exist in the us now. Or big cats in the uk.
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>>17097332
i have some friends from the kingsport area, and some friends from the pikeville and phelps area of kentucky, that have family lore about those things.
the kingsport Tennessee buddy, has a book that has been in the family since the 1830's with a story about a father and a son that were some of the first white settlers of that area, who were hunting and got attacked by one of those things when it decided that their deer was going to be its dinner and FUCK YOU.
they had both shot it, making center of mass hits that bled, which only pissed it off more. the thing killed the father and threw the son a good ways, breaking his leg, and started eating the guys dad. kid ran off with a god-damned broken leg and made it to where there was a house, told his story and passed out from shock and blood loss. big search hunting party of whites and even the Indians from the area went after it after the indians said "this fucker aint no joke, you gotta kill it or else it will rape and kill everything with a hole".
the guys from kentucky said the ones from up in their area was a fucking asshole, who would rip cows apart to steal livers and organ meat, take big ass bites out of it, then shit on the carcass. then destroy peoples homes, and be a giant fucking retarded jerkoff, till someone would put a bunch of lead in its ass. then it would go hide out from people till it decided to be a dick again. there was supposedly one killed by one of the McCoys in the prewar era.
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>>17096677
Ogopogo.
Bigfoot.
Only two crypstuds I know of.
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>>17101212
thank you so much for posting. middle tennessee here but i have spent some time in KPT. lots of spooky spots there. my friend was at his family's home in manchester and he saw something which freaked him out, sounded something like what you described.
he did mention it had a white stripe down the back like a skunk sorta. but it was huge
tennessee is scary at night
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>>17101410
all of Appalachia is terrifying at night. there are plenty of weird things that happen in the middle of nowhere out there. the least of them being that missing 411 shit.
there are stories right out of myths and legends that people dumb enough to go out by themselves into the deep woods tell if they are lucky to make it back in one piece.
I've heard of silver people, who look like either the T-1000, weird robots, or shiny glowing men and women. bigfoot things that dont look like harry and the Henderson bigfoot, but more like WoW Orcs, just covered in hair. green people with glowing yellow eyes who live in caves, and steal children. and shit that straight up sounds like yokai, and baba yaga running wild.
I've heard of the white striped one from the Tennessee guy. motherfucker was a true redneck hard ass when we were teenagers, went to iraq and got medals for being fucking crazy as shit, isnt afraid of a single man that walks this earth, but he will not go out into the woods without at least his Glock 20, 3 extra mags, and 2 knives.
i saw him on the way to my cousins wedding a few years back, and he told me about this "thing" he saw jump on a deer and snap that fuckers neck and back like matchsticks. not a little fawn either, this was a big 12 point buck. he has had game cameras ripped off the trees and crushed like beer cans. not knocked down or stolen because a shiner would steal it for themselves. he had it bolted to a tree with big ass lag screws and then those big hose clamps for shits and giggles.
he wants to get some of his buddies from the marines to go out there with him on patrol, because he said that he has heard these things talking to each other, and it sounds like some weird mongolian/injun/klingon hybrid sounding stuff. he has some theories that sound crazy like they get a few at the top of a game trail, spook the deer down, and then the rest ambush the deer, making the kill.
he doesnt want these things near his wife or kids.
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>>17096933
They're called night crawlers fool
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The Wendigo (also known as the Windigo, Windago, Witiko, Wee-tee-go, Wihtikow, Waindigo and several other variants) is a cannibalistic spirit resembling a zombie. In some forms, the Wendigo is the size of a human, while in others, it can be fifteen-feet-tall. The earliest description of the Wendigo was that of similar appearance to a corpse, with a skeleton-like, thin body with gray skin, sunken eyes, bloody lips, yellow fangs and a long, slimy tongue. Later myths say that the Wendigo is a lipless ape with giant fangs that devours human flesh. It can turn a person into a Wendigo, which was one of the worst curses to the Algonquian-speaking Native Americans of Canada.
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>>17101581
haven't lived in appalachia per se but i 100% believe you that it is indeed terrifying. i have a few stories from a friend of mine who grew up there . . . really fucked up pagan hippie family, but tldr he had some experiences with fairies in the mountains
interesting and creepy about the skunk creature. my friend said it was bulky and had a snout like a bear, but it was very tall, kinda moved like an ape. put its arms down and swung its body under its arms to move. traversed a huge field in a no time at all
i used to explore the woods when i was young, honestly so shocked and thankful to still be alive at times haha
haven't heard about the silver people, that is really fucking creepy. doesn't surprise me in a way. seriously uncharted territory out there
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>>17099186
You're a thousand years old?
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They are described as having red, swollen eyes and bulging veins, being active in late hours of night. Pishacha aren't exactly demons, since the ancient Vedas place them lower than rakshasas, or demons, describing them as far more malignant as the vilest of malevolent beings. The Pishacha are believed to be born of Krodha (क्रोध), literally meaning "anger" or "wrath" in Sanskrit.
Thriving in darkness, Pishacha feed on the energy of humans, such as insanity or the corruption of innocence.
Piśācas have the power to assume different forms at will, and may also become invisible. They feed on human energies, possessing human beings and altering their thoughts, causing mental abnormalities, insanity and even suicide.
These possessions are still believed to occur today. Anyone who sees a pishacha is doomed to die within nine months, according to some myths.
Haunting channel grounds and cross-roads, Indians in fear of the creatures offer rice at a cross-road in a ceremony that is repeated for days.
Mantras and protective chants are also used as protection from the spirits. The term Pishacha is occasionally used in regards to almost all evil spirits in India.
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>>17101638
I have always really like the davis/mignolia impression of the wendigo.
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>>17096938
truly horrifying
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>>17099999
Checked that quints get
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Something I've had experience with is a huge black wolf covered in scars with a ground shaking howl
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>>17099186
Wait, island visited by Vikings...you're either in Iceland, Greenland, or Newfoundland. I'm from the latter, heard about those a few times, though IIRC the Greeks (or Romans?) said they lived in Ethiopia.
>>17100025
As amusing as it is, that's actually a real fish. Specifically, a fanciful, upside-down depiction of a monkfish.
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>>17101125
Not the one that posted it, but those have been seen up and down Appalachia for hundreds of years. I do believe there's some Native legends about them. None are described as having the bright coloring of the mandrill.
They've been discussed in Bigfoot, Dogman, and Out of Place animal books I've read. Bigfoot because of the possibility of another OOP primate in the US, Dogman because sometimes they're reported as upright walking dogs/baby dogmen (baboons do look doglike in some respects) but further details point to a baboon-like animal.
And interesting enough, they're sometimes mistaken as wallabies or kangaroos. Then they start actually moving.
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>>17102185
There's decent evidence to support up to three unidentified primate species in North America, with a possible fourth or subspecies.
>traditional Bigfoot: western-central NA, 7-9 feet tall, powerful build, very humanoid
>devil monkey: baboon-like, most commonly reported in the Mississippi basin and Midwestern US, moves by leaping like certain other primates
>skunk ape: southern US, most notably Florida, chimp-like, walks on knuckles
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>>17102298
>decent evidence for cryptids
nigga wat u think dat wrd men>
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>>17097287
I stand by my belief that this was a crashed missile.
The "screams" would be the noise, the flailing arms would be broken fuel lines giving up the last of their supply, the fiery head is the plume of fire used for thrust, just look at the body, it looks like the back end of a missile.
If it was a missile that malfunctioned, that would explain why the airforce cordoned off the area so quickly, they would have been tracking it and gone to collect their top secret equipment immediately.
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>>17102298
Skunk apes don't walk on their knuckles
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The Swamp Stalke
Possible appearance of Fouke Monster
r of Boggy Creek, also known as the Fouke Monster or Southern Sasquatch, is a large brown humanoid that lives near Fouke, Arkansas. It has made major news and tracks have indeed been found. It is very vicious and attacks humans. Many people have been terrified by the creature. Local legends of an apelike creature date back to 1946, when it was called the Jonesville Monster (based on the town where it was initially sighted), sighted again in the mid-1960's, the creature didn't make local headlines until 1971 when it was said to have attacked the home of Bobby and Elizabeth Ford. The Fouke Monster was the inspiration for the 1972 documentary film "The Legend of Boggy Creek", directed by the late Charles B. Pierce, which in turn inspired additional sightings up through the late 1990's.
The Southern Sasquatch is described as a giant, human-like ape creature with long arms, long, dark hair, three toes on each foot and bright red eyes the size of silver dollars. It's said to walk with a shuffling gait and run in a hunched or slouched posture while swinging its arms, like a primate. Original reports from the 1970's describe the creature as 7 feet tall, up to 300 pounds and a chest about 3 feet wide. The creature's alleged footprints are said to measure 17 inches long and 7 inches wide.
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>>17097509
Doesn't it also have a massive dong
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Pagan has nothing to do with bugs.
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The Si-Teh-Cas, sometimes Saiduka or Sai'i, are a fabled race of belligerent red-haired giants from Pauite Indian legends. They were said to be the mortal enemies of the Indians in the area, and the Indians had joined forces to drive the giants out of their territory.
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Antmen were army ants that were human sized. They appeared in Greek mythology. They could carry and use four weapons at a time and use their large red eyes to see from all directions at once.They could easily crush a human soldier’s skull with their huge, powerful jaws. Just as ants, they were extremely organized and had no fear of death. Given the order, they would rush and eagerly enter any battle. Also, unlike real ants, they never took any prisoners. They, like ants, were extremely strong.
The story goes that after a devastating plague killed off the entire population of the island of Aegina, the governing king begged his father (Zeus) to repopulate his Kingdom with its ants. This created an army of fierce and eager warriors that took direction from and remained loyal to this king. The king’s son, Peleus, took a group of these human-sized insects to the Greek city of Thessaly. The son of Peleus, Achilles even led this group of fierce warriors to battle in the legendary Trojan War.
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Lufferlang is a Fearsome critter from North American folklore. It is described as a large spider-like creature with triple jointed legs, a bushy tail, and blue stripes. It is also reported to have a horse or tiger's head. It is said its legs could make this creature run fast in any direction to catch those who gaze upon them (sometime without provocation), then kill it with a single deadly bite withs its powerful venom. In case of an attack, the victim could use a large mirror to confuse them. The Lufferlang will gaze upon itself, then rush off with fear of its own horrific appearance.
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Sam Harris, also known as “The Pig Man” is the legend of a boy age 17 that went missing in the hills Of Northfield Vermont in 1951. The night before Halloween October 30, 1951 Sam set out with eggs in hand for what he called Picket night, a night of mischief. The next morning when his parents awoke and found him missing, this set off a huge search party that lasted weeks and involved hundreds of locals over hundreds of square miles. Although never found it is said there has been sighting of Sam who some say became possessed by the devil himself that fateful night. Sam Harris is known to slaughter pigs and eat their entrails and hallow out the pig’s head and wear over his all awhile terrorizing the small New England town locals. Sam still today haunts the hills surrounding Devil’s Washbowl where they say he lies with the pigs and is also known for bestiality spawning half man half pig offspring.
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Old Spider Legs is a mysterious creature sighted in America during the 19th century by a lumberjack. As he was traveling through the forest he heard a quick and numerous galloping noise, he then got a clear sight of a horse that had eight legs positioned like a spider’s legs. He got on his horse and chased after the beast but he could not keep up and lost sight of it. Many have heard it since, but none have seen it again. It might have possibly been a regular wild horse that had a twin that did not develop fully, got its extra appendages, which, in this case, were positioned like a spiders, and it learned to use these to its advantage of running faster.
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Squidgicum-Squee is a fearsome critter from the tales of lumberjacks of North America in the late 19th century and early 20th century. This creature is very shy, not wanting to ever be seen. When it hears or sees someone or something approaching, it takes a deep breath and swallows itself.
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>>17104208
D: what a good name! kinda cute that it's shy
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Funeral Mountain Terrashot (Funericorpus displosissimum) is bizarre creature from lumberjack folklore of North America in 19th and early 20th centuries. It has casket shaped shell and 6–8ft in length, it also has long and wobbly legs, causing the terrashot to sway uncertainly from side to side and forward and backward as it travels along.
The strange beast was first reported by some Mormon emigrants, who observed a peculiar procession entering the desert from a certain mountain range, afterward named the Funeral Mountains. It said that the creature live in little meadows and parks in the higher portions of the range, where it gradually increases in numbers, until by a strange impulse it is seized by a desire to emigrate. Then they go on a disastrous journey across the desert walking in single line. None will ever survive the journey as they cannot take the heat of the sun. Eventually they fall over and explode due to the intense heat and leaving deep, grave-shaped holes in the sand.
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Hugag
The Hugag is a huge animal of the Lake States. Its range includes western Wisconsin, northern Minnesota, and a territory extending indefinitely northward in the Canadian wilds toward Hudson Bay. In size the hugag may be compared to the moose, and in form it somewhat resembles that animal. Very noticeable, however, are its jointless legs, which compel the animal to remain on its feet, and its long upper lip, which prevents it from grazing. If it tried that method of feeding it would simply tramp its upper lip into the dirt. Its head and neck are leathery and hairless. Its strangely corrugated ears flop downward, its four-toed feet, long bushy tail, shaggy coat and general make-up give the beast an unmistakably prehistoric appearance. The hugag has a perfect mania for traveling, and few hunters who have taken up its trail ever came up with the beast or back to camp.
It is reported to keep going all day long, browsing on twigs, flopping its lip around trees, and stripping bark as occasion offers, and at night, since it cannot lie down, it leans against a tree, bracing its hind legs and marking time with its front ones. The most successful hugag hunters have adopted the practice of notching trees so that they are almost ready to fall, and when the hugag leans up against one both the tree and the animal come down. In its helpless condition it is then easily dispatched. The last one killed, so far as known, was on Turtle River, in northern Minnesota, where a young one, weighing 1,800 pounds, was found stuck in the mud. It was knocked in the head by Mike Flynn, of Cass Lake.
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The Piasa Bird, also called the Bird of the Evil Spirit or The Bird that Devours Men is a fire-breathing winged creature (or dragon) featured in legends of the Illini tribe. It was depicted in one of two murals painted by Native Americans along the Mississippi River near present-day Alton, Illinois. The original was lost and was replaced with a new bluff just a few yards upstream from the original place where it was found.
Behavior
The creature was said to have snatched members of the tribe living near the river, it had a shuddering scream that was said to shake the earth below. Even though it's not likely that anyone would miss it, it's very sneaky and mischievous; when you hear the scream of the beast, you're dead. Even though it had one weakness it was very hard to take this beast down, it took years and blood spilled just to find out what it's weakness was.
Description
The Natives and Jacques had very different descriptions; Natives thought this was what it looked like: Its body was much the size and shape of a horse; long, white fangs stabbed upward from the protruding lower jaw and flames leaped from its nostrils; two white, deer-like horns angled wickedly from its head. Its huge wings pounded the air with such force the trees bent; its stubby legs held dagger-like talons and its spiked tail wound around the grotesque body three times.
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>>17096904
dang I already almost forgot about that one.
I actually have a book featuring these, I gotta search for it. has some interesting stuff in it
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Lindworm (cognate with Old Norse linnormr 'constrictor snake', Norwegian linnorm 'dragon', Swedish, lindorm, Danish, lindorm 'serpent', German Lindwurm 'dragon') in British heraldry, is a technical term for a wingless bipedal dragon often with a venomous bite. In Norwegian heraldry a lindorm is the same as the wyvern in British heraldry. The most famous lindworm is Jörmungandr.
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The bwca (or pwca) is the Welsh version of the brownie. It is a helpful creature who, in exchange for a bowl of cream, is willing to perform small labors such as the churning of butter. If he is treated badly, the bwca will pound the walls, throw small objects, pinch people in their sleep, destroy clothes and reveal secrets. He despises teetotalers and people with long noses.
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The Nightcrawler, also called the Fresno Alien, is a cryptid that has so far made two appearances, one in Fresno, California and the other in Yosemite National Park. On both sightings, it was only seen in video footage. It appears to be a relatively short creature (approx. 4 feet in height). It is an extremely thin, white humanoid with no discernible arms. It also appears to be wearing a white gown or cloak of some sort. It is thought to be like a grey.
The Nightcrawler is most known for being one of the two featured video cases on the second episode of Syfy's Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files.
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Tales abound of babies stolen from their cradles and replaced by fairies, of women shocked to find a hideous creature lying where their newborn once slept. These fairy impostors seem to be most common in stories from Ireland and Scotland, as well as Northern Europe; known as Changelings, they were something to be feared for a great many new mothers. For anyone living in today’s knowledge-rich society, it’s difficult to imagine how people could truly believe that a baby could be stolen by fairies, but several hundred years ago illness and death – especially that of children – was a very real part of life, and supernatural explanations for such events probably brought a degree of comfort to people who had no knowledge of modern science or medicine.
I am a part of europe where stories about changelings are really common. You got these told as a child while sitting around a campfire or hikes especially.
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>>17097114
Looks suspiciously similar to ouroboros
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>>17098809
Oh my god, SHUT THE FUCK UP.
That makes absolutely zero fucking sense.
The Nazis couldn't have done any genetic experiments when the structure of DNA wasn't discovered until 1953.
How would tension over an attack from fucking Mars help the Soviets at all?
Where did the technology for a remotely controlled craft capable of a) making it to American soil (to New Mexico and Massachusetts, of all places) and b) slipping past American air defenses come from?
Why put the bodies in there? What purpose do they serve aside from dead weight?
Answer those and your theory has some weight. Until then I'll assume you're fucking retarded.
6/10, got me mad.
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>>17102025
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The Riverside Monster, also known as the Riverside Bridge Monster and the Brain Tickler of Riverside, is a bizarre lanky cryptid that was first encountered by Charles Wetzel on November 8, 1958. The creature was described as tall and lanky, with a "protuberant mouth" and glowing green eyes.
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The Beast of Bevendean is a panther-like creature which has been spotted around the Brighton and Hove area of England since 2008.It has been reported attacking and frightening dogs in the area. It has been investigated by the British Big Cats Society, who claimed "It could be a panther.".Warnings were issued to local residents in 2008, and in June 2008 a local man reported an attack by the beast upon his dog.
In 2010 it was sighted by a teacher.In 2011 a local filmmaker began making Nightmare Hunters, an "action-adventure" movie about two young boys who set out to trap the Beast.
In a response to claims that the animal could be part of a breeding population, a spokesman from Sussex Big Cat Watch said that "We don’t know how many are out there. There could be two or three or there could be dozens."
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Billy Blind, Billy Blin, Billy Blynde, Billie Blin, or Belly Blin is an English and Lowland Scottish household spirit, much like a brownie. He appears, however, only in ballads, where it frequently advises the characters.It is probable that the character of Billy Blind is a folk memory of the god Woden or Odin from Germanic mythology, in his "more playful aspect"and the character seems to have been the same character as that of Blind Harie, the "blind man of the game" in Scotland.
In Child Ballad no 5c, Gil Brenton, it is Billy Blind that advises the hero that his bride is not the woman beside him, who is a virgin, but she is hiding in her bower and already pregnant.
In Child Ballad no 6, Willie's Lady, Willie's wife has been in labour and can not deliver because Willie's mother, a rank witch, is preventing her. Billy Blind advises Willie to make a wax figure of a baby and invite his mother to the christening. In her rage, the mother demands to know how all her magic was undone, listing all the things she's done, and Willie is able to undo them.
In Child Ballad no 53C, Young Bekie, he advises Burd Isobel that Young Bekie is about to marry another bride, and gives her assistance in the magical journey to reach him in time.
In Child Ballad no 110, The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter, he appears in many of the variants to reveal the true births of the marrying couple: much higher than was apparent.
In modern fantasy, the Billy Blind appears in Peter S. Beagle's Tamsin, where his main characteristic is constantly to give advice.
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Any anons know of folklore from Southern California?
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>>17104714
That's Spanish.
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A bluecap is a mythical fairy or ghost in English folklore that inhabits mines and appears as a small blue flame. If miners treat them with respect, the bluecaps lead them to rich deposits of minerals.Like knockers or kobolds, bluecaps can also forewarn miners of cave-ins. They are mostly associated with the Anglo-Scottish borders.They were hard workers and expected to be paid a working man's wages, equal to those of an average putter (a mine worker who pushes the wagons). Their payment was left in a solitary corner of the mine, and they would not accept any more or less than they were owed. The miners would sometimes see the flickering bluecap settle on a full tub of coal, transporting it as though "impelled by the sturdiest sinews".Another being of the same type (though less helpful in nature) was called Cutty Soames or Old Cutty Soames who was known to cut the rope-traces or soams by which the assistant putter was yoked to the tub.
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Stories of pig-faced women originated roughly simultaneously in Holland, England and France in the late 1630s. The stories told of a wealthy woman whose body was of normal human appearance, but whose face was that of a pig.
In the earliest forms of the story, the woman's pig-like appearance was the result of witchcraft. Following her wedding day, the pig-faced woman's new husband was granted the choice of having her appear beautiful to him but pig-like to others, or pig-like to him and beautiful to others. When her husband told her that the choice was hers, the enchantment was broken and her pig-like appearance vanished. These stories became particularly popular in England, and later in Ireland.
The magical elements gradually vanished from the story, and the existence of pig-faced women began to be treated as fact. The story became particularly widespread in Dublin in the early 19th century, where it became widely believed that reclusive 18th-century philanthropist Griselda Steevens had kept herself hidden from view because she had the face of a pig. In late 1814 and early 1815, rumour swept London that a pig-faced woman was living in Marylebone. Her existence was widely reported as fact, and numerous alleged portraits of her were published. With belief in pig-faced women commonplace, unscrupulous showmen exhibited living "pig-faced women" at fairs. These were not genuine women, but shaven bears dressed in women's clothing.
Belief in pig-faced women declined, and the last significant work to treat their existence as genuine was published in 1924. Today, the legend is almost forgotten
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The wild man (also wildman, or "wildman of the woods", archaically woodwose or wodewose) is a mythical figure that appears in the artwork and literature of medieval Europe, comparable to the satyr or faun type in classical mythology and to Silvanus, the Roman god of the woodlands.
The defining characteristic of the figure is its "wildness"; from the 12th century they were consistently depicted as being covered with hair. Images of wild men appear in the carved and painted roof bosses where intersecting ogee vaults meet in the Canterbury Cathedral, in positions where one is also likely to encounter the vegetal Green Man. The image of the wild man survived to appear as supporter for heraldic coats-of-arms, especially in Germany, well into the 16th century. Renaissance engravers in Germany and Italy were particularly fond of wild men, wild women, and wild families, with examples from Martin Schongauer (died 1491) and Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) among others.
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Jack o' Kent or Jack-a-Kent is an English folkloric character based in the Welsh Marches. He is alternately referred to as either a cleric or wizard who regularly beats the Devil in bets and games. He is most well known around Herefordshire and Monmouthshire, and his legends are used to tell the origin of many of the geological formations around the region.
Jack often outsmarted the Devil by entering into bargains and then fulfilling the letter of the bargain but not the spirit. In one instance he made a deal with the Devil so that his crops would prosper - Jack would plant the crops, and the devil would make sure that the sun and rain came in proper amounts. Jack asked the Devil which part of the crops he wanted, the "tops" or the "butts" (bottoms), and the Devil picked "tops" thinking that come harvest he would receive a lot of wheat, but Jack planted turnips and left the Devil with the useless leaves. The next year the Devil thought he'd get the better of Jack and picked "butts", so Jack planted wheat, and once again the Devil was cheated.
In another story, Jack asks the Devil to help him build a bridge, promising him the first soul that crosses it. They build the bridge and then Jack tosses a bone over the bridge and a hungry dog runs across
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The Fairy Queen or Queen of the Fairies was a figure from folklore who was believed to rule the fairies. Based on Shakespeare's influence, in English-speaking cultures she is often named Titania or Mab.
In Irish folklore, the last High Queen of the Daoine Sidhe - and wife of the High King Finvarra - was named Oona (or Oonagh, or Una, or Uonaidh etc.). In the ballad tradition of Northern England and Lowland Scotland, she was called the Queen of Elphame.
The character is also associated with the name Morgan (as with the Arthurian character of Morgan Le Fey, or Morgan of the Fairies), Meave, and L'annawnshee (literally, Underworld Fairy). In the Child Ballads Tam Lin (Child 39) and Thomas the Rhymer (Child 37), she is represented as both beautiful and seductive, and also as terrible and deadly. The Fairy Queen is said to pay a tithe to Hell every seven years, and her mortal lovers often provide this sacrifice. In Tam Lin, the title character tells his mortal lover:
At the end of seven years
She pays a tithe to Hell
I so fair and full of flesh
I fear it be myself
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>>17096904
This is very likely originally a warning from peasant parents to peasant children to avoid English troops as much as possible, in the form of a spooky monster story.
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A grindylow or grundylow is a folkloric creature that originated from folktales in the English counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire.[1] The name is thought to be connected to Grendel, a name or term used in Beowulf and in many Old English charters where it is seen in connection with meres, bogs and lakes.
Grindylows are said to grab little children with their long sinewy arms and drown them if they come too close to the water's edge.Grindylows have been seen as a bogeyman used as a ploy to frighten children away from pools, marshes or ponds where they could drown.
Peg Powler and Jenny Greenteeth are similar water spirits
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The Church Grim, Kirk Grim, Kyrkogrim (Swedish) or Kirkonväki (Finnish) is a figure from English and Scandinavian folklore, said to be an attendant spirit, overseeing the welfare of its particular church. English Church Grims are said to enjoy loudly ringing the bells. They may appear as black dogs (even as other animals, such as rams, horses, roosters or ravens) or as small, misshapen, dark-skinned people.[1]
The Swedish Kyrkogrim are said to be the spirits of animals sacrificed by early Christians at the building of a new church.[2] In parts of Europe, including Britain and Scandinavia, it was believed that the first man buried in a new churchyard had to guard it against the Devil. To save a human soul from the duty, a completely black dog would be buried alive on the north side of the churchyard, creating a guardian spirit, the church grim, to protect the church.[3]
The Scandinavian and Nordic Kyrkogrim or Kirkonväki can also occasionally appear as pale-skinned 'ghosts', said to be the spirits of the folk who lived in the proximity of the church that they now 'guard'. William Henderson in his 1878 Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties[4] attributes it to a foundation sacrifice and points out that the Kirkogrim of Sweden appears in the form of a lamb, which in the early days in Christianity in Sweden was buried under the altar. The Kirkegrim of Denmark took the form of a 'grave-sow'.[5]
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>>17106639
This is compelling. I think I encountered a sort of "grim" in a 250+ year old cemetery. It was short, maybe a meter tall and pure white with glowing golden eyes. It formed from a mist out of the ground and would hide behind a big headstone. It instilled fear and it makes sense: it was making sure I respected the graves. Now I know it has a name.
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>>17096677
OP's dad
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>>17097247
>big scary bug creature
>comes around only to warn you that bad stuff is gonna happen
further evidence that moths are just nice people who wanna help out
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>>17096917
the first furfag this is where the faggotry came from
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>>17097114
and chases leprechauns apparently
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Boggart is one of numerous related terms used in English folklore for either a household spirit or a malevolent genius loci inhabiting fields, marshes or other topographical features. Other names of this group include bug, bugbear, bogey, bogeyman, bogle, etc., presumably all derived from (or related to) Old English pūcel, Irish púca and Welsh bwg with the same meaning (itself a probable loan from the English bug).[1]
The household form causes mischief and things to disappear, milk to sour, and dogs to go lame. The boggarts inhabiting marshes or holes in the ground are often attributed more serious evil doing, such as the abduction of children.
Always malevolent, the household boggart will follow its family wherever they flee. It is said that the boggart crawls into people's beds at night and puts a clammy hand on their faces. Sometimes he strips the bedsheets off them.[2] Sometimes a boggart will also pull on a person's ears. Hanging a horseshoe on the door of a house and leaving a pile of salt outside your bedroom are said to keep a boggart away.
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>>17105182
>pig-faced women
>England and France
most women there are butt ugly so that's self explanatory
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Most of the many anecdotal tales describe the spiders digging a shallow tunnel under tree roots and camouflaging it with a large bed of leaves. Then they create an almost invisible web between their burrow and a nearby tree, booby-trapping the whole thing with a network of trip lines. Some hapless creature—soon to end up on the menu—will trip the line alerting the spider. The victim will be chased into the web. This predatory entrapment is similar to some species of trap-door spider.
Presumably, the J'ba FoFi eggs are a pale yellow-white and shaped like peanuts. Native claim the hatchlings are bright yellow with a purple abdomen. Their coloration becomes darker and brown as they mature. Some of the natives indigenous to the regions in the Congo where the J'ba FoFi has been seen assert that the spider was once quite common, but has become very rare.
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>>17099763
My elementary school had a book about the tailypo. It was one of those read-along books with a cassette tape. Don't know who it was that read it, but they did a great job. Scared the hell out of me at age six.
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>>17105182
>shaven bears in women's clothing
The 19th century was a fucking wild ride.
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The Beast of Exmoor is a cryptozoological felid (see phantom cat) that is reported to roam the fields of Exmoor in Devon and Somerset in the United Kingdom.
Eyewitness testimony has produced a number of different descriptions. Most accounts report the animal as being a large cat either resembling a puma or a panther.[8] It is recorded as being somewhere between four and eight feet from nose to tail, standing very low to the ground, and as having the ability to leap over 6-foot-tall fences with ease. Descriptions of its coloration range from black to tan or dark grey.
No such cat is native to England, and the variations in description have led some cryptozoologists to believe that there might be more than one creature.
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>>17109296
>>17105182
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>>17101011
>okay I'm DEFINITELY listening now
What did this project entail? Genuinely curious.
I thought the axe-handle eating was absurd but was that purposeful as a joke, or were you... testing the waters, so to speak? Maybe I misunderstood you... did you write the lore, or just the wiki? If you only wrote the wiki, was there anything else you possibly left out? It's such a strange lore... I honestly didn't know what to think about the "unattended axe handle" thing, it legit seems like one of those strange but true things.
I know this board is currently overrun by children on winter break, but I'm very genuine and would like a similarly genuine response, which would be much appreciated.
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>>17104360
Idk why you got so mad. They might not have been fully aware of DNA, but genetic manipulation has been in practice for like 10,000 fucking years, widely fucking accepted (in actual science) go look it up before denying it.
>How would tension over an attack from fucking Mars help the Soviets at all?
Americans are fucking dumb and susceptible to popular media suggestion, we've proved it over the years. I can't attest for the Russian views.
As far as the Roswell being the target? Probably wasn't. For all we know, they hit the "hit the US" button and just ran with it.
>Why put the bodies in there? What purpose do they serve aside from dead weight?
Crash a empty craft and all you're doing is giving the enemy tech to study. I'm of the mind that they were so desperate to fuck us up that they were willing to give us some tech, but also put deformed shit in there (who knows what) to screw with us.
>Where did the technology for a remotely controlled craft capable of a) making it to American soil (to New Mexico and Massachusetts, of all places) and b) slipping past American air defenses come from?
I'm not supporting this, just putting the idea forward, but if it WAS the Russians we have no idea what they were using for propulsion (anti-grav/magnetics or WHATEVER). Coulda fucked with radar (which was a joke back then anyways, ex. fucking Pearl Harbor).
I'm not saying it's true, but it's got just as much justification as any other theory and warrants discussion.
>Oh my god, SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Really? My posts have always been pretty fucking sound, as far as /x/ goes. I actually consider universally agreed history and science, and never do things like
>m-muh conspiratoral coverup
Or anything like Nazi coverup or anything. I try really fucking hard, even on /x/, to keep my posts legit. I'm pretty saddened that you pick my post out of the entire fucking board to tell to "SHUT THE FUCK UP."
Rather discuss Tarot/tulpa/divination/ouija/succubus/shall I continue?
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>>17096904
I would just kick the little shit if it ran at me.
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The Cat Sìth (Scottish Gaelic: [kʰaht̪ ˈʃiː]) or Cat Sidhe (Irish: [kat̪ˠ ˈʃiː], Cat Sí in new orthography) is a fairy creature from Celtic mythology, said to resemble a large black cat with a white spot on its chest. Legend has it that the spectral cat haunts the Scottish Highlands. The legends surrounding this creature are more common in Scottish folklore, but a few occur in Irish. Some common folklore suggested that the Cat Sìth was not a fairy, but a witch that could transform into a cat nine times.[1]
As proposed by British cryptozoologist, Karl Shuker, in his book Mystery Cats of the World (1989), it is possible that the legends of the Cat Sìth were inspired by Kellas cats, which are probably a distinctive hybrid between Scottish wildcats and domestic cats only found in Scotland (the Scottish wildcat is a subspecies of the European wildcat, which is absent from elsewhere in the British Isles).[2] Typical Kellas cats resemble large black wildcats, but with some peculiar features closer to domestic cats, and have probably been present in Scotland for centuries, maybe even some two millennia or more. Others believe that the Cat Sìth was inspired by the Scottish wildcat itself.[3]
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>>17098809
you american retards should keep your moronic paranoia to yourself. Get off the back of Russians for once, you are the terrorists here, not russians. They didn't create al-quaida and isis
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>>17108310
It was probably one of the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books. There's a Tailypo story in those.
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>>17111766
I read those Scary Story books as well. They're awesome--especially the drawings--but this is the tailypo book I was thinking of. Found the book on Amazon, but there's no cassette with it. Thanks for the hint though, it jogged my memory.
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>>17099752
I live right around there and river fronts and everything are all spoopy
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>>17099569
Yeah they where pretty much common law married.
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According to English legend Dando's Dogs also known as the Devil's Dandy Dogs are hounds which take part in the Wild Hunt. They are associated with Black Dogs, as a generic term for canine apparitions.
The legend involves a sinful priest named Dando, who was also a capable huntsman. After a Sunday hunt, he called for a drink, exclaiming that if the drink he wanted cannot be found on Earth, they should go to Hell to get it. A strange huntsman comes forward and offers him a drink, and takes some of Dando's game from the hunt. Dando claims them as his, and tries to stop the huntsman. In his drunken fury, the priest shouts, "I'll go to Hell after them, but I'll get them from thee." The strange huntsman whisks Dando away to Hell, while his dogs give chase. It is said that on early Sunday mornings, "Dando's Dogs" have often been heard in pursuit of game.[1] [2]
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>>17096890
its a giant salamander
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Bies /ˈbjɛs/ or bes (Russian: бec [ˈbʲɛs]) is an evil spirit or demon in Slavic mythology. The word is synonymous with chort.
After the acceptance of Christianity the bies became identified with the devil, corresponding to the being referred to in Ancient Greek, as either daimon (δαίμων), daimónion or pneuma (πνεῦμα). For example, biesy (Russian plural of bies) is used in the standard Russian translation of Mark 5:12, where we have the devils entering the swine in KJV.[1] [2] Compare to the Ukrainian bisy (used always in plural) or bisytysia (to go mad).
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In Slavic mythology, the word “zmey” (Bulgarian and Russian: змeй, Macedonian: змej) and its cognates zmiy (Polish: żmij, Ukrainian: змiй) and zmaj (Serbian: змaј, Croatian, Slovene: zmaj), are used to describe a dragon. These words are masculine forms of the Slavic word for "snake", which are normally feminine (like Russian zmeya).
In Romania, there is a similar figure, derived from the Slavic dragon and named zmeu. In Polish and Belarusian folklore, as well as in the other Slavic folklore, a dragon is also called smok (cмoк, цмoк, smok).
In South Slavic folklore, the female variation is also called lamya (derived from lamia). Although quite similar to other European dragons, Slavic dragons have their peculiarities.
In Russia and Ukraine, a particular dragon-like creature, Zmey Gorynych (Russian: “змeй Гopыныч” or Ukrainian: “змiй Гopинич”), has three heads, is green, walks on two back paws, has small front paws, and spits fire. According to one bylina, Zmey Gorynych was the dragon killed by Dobrynya Nikitich.
Other Russian dragons (such as Tugarin Zmeyevich) have Turkic names, probably symbolizing the Mongols and other steppe peoples. Accordingly, St George (symbolizing Christianity) killing the Dragon (symbolizing Satan) is represented on the coat of arms of Moscow. Some prehistoric structures, notably the Serpent's Wall near Kiev, have been associated with dragons as symbols of foreign peoples.
Russian dragons usually have heads in multiples of three. Some have heads that grow back if every single head isn't cut off or the headless neck isn't covered immediately in ash or burnt.
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>>17111213
Dude
#1: Any American that is worth listening to knows we did dumb shit like seeding shitty groups, over and over... and over again.
#2. I never stated ANYTHING as fact, I literally started the post with the equivalent of "meh, let's entertain this idea"
#3. I'm in no way, shape or form a die-hard American. You're preaching to the choir you fucking putz. Go watch some more RT and deny how shitty the last Olympics were. You literally could have kept your trap shut and been more beneficial to your cause.
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>>17113785
Just curious what everyone's take on these stories is? I mean, I'm not trying to provoke an argument but either an exchange of ideas based on area, or a discussion.
Personally, dragons sound so fucking strange without a world culture. If you plug in a world wide culture, it makes sense just as a lore of maybe "zomg my craaaazy uncle zack saw a 20ft lizard with wings that breathed fire once." Without that, maybe some sort of convergent lore where we all were universally scared of reptiles? I've heard that the reason we're so scared of spiders is because our eyes have trouble tracking 8 legs (is this true?), and if that's true I could see a majority of us scared by reptiles. IMO, if convergent evolution exists, so would convergent fears/lore/[insert here]
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>>17114913
I suspect dinosaur fossils had a hand in dragon legends.
Imagine being an uneducated dirt farmer in the middle ages and one day you dig up a dinosaur skull, you would shit yourself and cry for a dragon hunter.
I once saw a documentary many years ago where an archaeologist was excavating a site filled with fossilised ancient squid and they ended up looking like giant teeth in that state, which the presenter attributed dragon legends to.
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>>17100992
English is a Subject-Verb-Object language.
>He took the sandwich
Japanese is Subject-Object-Verb
>He sandwich took
Yoda speaks in Object-Subject-Verb, which only like .5% of languages use.
>Sandwich he took
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>>17111213
Go easy on the vodka, Ivan. You're getting angry.
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Sirin is a mythological creature of Russian legends, with the head and chest of a beautiful woman and the body of a bird (usually an owl). According to myth, the Sirins lived "in Indian lands" near Eden or around the Euphrates River.[1][2]
These half-women half-birds are directly based on the Greek myths and later folklore about sirens.[2][3][4] They were usually portrayed wearing a crown or with a nimbus.[5] Sirins sang beautiful songs to the saints, foretelling future joys. For mortals, however, the birds were dangerous. Men who heard them would forget everything on earth, follow them, and ultimately die. People would attempt to save themselves from Sirins by shooting cannons, ringing bells and making other loud noises to scare the bird off.[3] Later (17-18th century), the image of Sirins changed and they started to symbolize world harmony (as they live near paradise). People in those times believed only really happy people could hear a Sirin, while only very few could see one because she is as fast and difficult to catch as human happiness. She symbolizes eternal joy and heavenly happiness.[6]
The legend of Sirin might have been introduced to Kievan Rus by Persian merchants in the 8th-9th century. In the cities of Chersonesos and Kiev they are often found on pottery, golden pendants, even on the borders of Gospel books of tenth-twelfth centuries.[5] Pomors often depicted Sirins on the illustrations in the Book of Genesis as birds sitting in paradise trees.[1]
Sometimes Sirins are seen as a metaphor for God's word going into the soul of a man. Sometimes they are seen as a metaphor of heretics tempting the weak. Sometimes Sirins were considered equivalent to the Polish Wila. In Russian folklore, Sirin was mixed with the revered religious writer Saint Ephrem the Syrian. Thus, peasant lyrists such as Nikolay Klyuev often used Sirins as a synonym for poet.[1]
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>>17097114
>The Hoop Snake
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Psoglav (Serbian: Пcoглaви, literally doghead) is a demonic mythical creature in Serbian mythology; belief about it existed in parts of Bosnia and Montenegro.[1] Psoglav was described as having a human body with horse legs, and dog's head with iron teeth and a single eye on the forehead.[1]
Psoglavs were described to live in caves or in a dark land which has plenty of gemstones, but no sun.[1] They practice anthropophagy, by eating people, or even digging out corpses from graves to eat them.[1] In the Croatian language, the term is Psoglavac. There are numerous legends about them, particularly on the Istrian peninsula in Croatia.
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>>17096844
Wtf are those, they look like some sort of humanoid , I bet they have really eggy farts every time there's a gas expulsion from their anus
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Gamayun is a prophetic bird of Russian folklore. It is a symbol of wisdom and knowledge and lives on an island in the east, close to paradise. Like the Sirin and the Alkonost, the Gamayun is normally depicted as a large bird with a woman's head.
In his esoteric Christian-Buddhist cosmography Roza Mira, Daniil Andreev maintains that Sirins, Alkonosts, and Gamayuns are transformed into Archangels in Paradise.
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Kikimora (Russian: кики́мopa; IPA: [kʲJˈkʲimərə]) is a legendary creature, a female house spirit in Slavic (especially Eastern) mythology. Her role in the house is usually juxtaposed with that of the domovoy, whereas one of them is considered a "bad" spirit, and the other, a "good" one. When the kikimora inhabits a house, she lives behind the stove or in the cellar, and usually produces noises similar to those made by the mice in order to obtain food. Kikimory (in plural) were the first traditional explanation for sleep paralysis in Russian folklore.
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>>17115763
>>17115927
>>17115964
Continue, Slavic folklore is quite interesting.
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A domovoi or domovoy (Russian: дoмoвóй; IPA: [dəmɐˈvoj]; literally, "[he] from the house") is a protective house spirit in Slavic folklore. The plural form in Russian can be transliterated domoviye or domovye (with accent on the vowel after the v). In some accounts, the domovoi is described as having a wife (domovikha or kikimora) who lives in the cellar or henhouse.[2] The Slavs and Balts of former times kept idols of the domovoi.[3]
Domovye are masculine, typically small, bearded, and sometimes covered in hair all over.[4][5] According to some traditions, domovye take on the appearance of current or former owners of the house and have a grey beard, sometimes with tails or little horns.[6] This belief is commonly held to be a remnant of the pre-Christian cult of ancestors[7][8] which is also reflected in some of the titles of the domovoi (e.g., dedko, dedushka "grandfather"). There are tales of neighbors seeing the master of the house out in the yard while in fact the real master was asleep in bed.[9][10] It has also been said that domovye can take on the appearance of cats or dogs.[9][10][11] The domovoi is more often heard than seen and his voice is said to be hollow and harsh.[12]
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In Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga is a supernatural being (or one of a trio of sisters of the same name) who appears as a deformed and/or ferocious-looking woman. Baba Yaga flies around in a mortar, wields a pestle, and dwells deep in the forest in a hut usually described as standing on chicken legs (or sometimes a single chicken leg).[1] Baba Yaga may help or hinder those that encounter or seek her out. She sometimes plays a maternal role, and also has associations with forest wildlife. According to Vladimir Propp's folktale morphology, Baba Yaga commonly appears as either a donor or villain, or may be altogether ambiguous.
Andreas Johns identifies Baba Yaga as "one of the most memorable and distinctive figures in Slavic European folklore," and observes that she is "enigmatic" and often exhibits "striking ambiguity."[2] Johns summarizes Baba Yaga as "a many-faceted figure, capable of inspiring researchers to see her as a Cloud, Moon, Death, Winter, Snake, Bird, Pelican or Earth Goddess, totemic matriarchal ancestress, female initiator, phallic mother, or archetypal image".[3]
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>>17115964
Its appearance definitely reminds me of wave of "bruja" sightings in Mexico in the late 2000s/early 2010s.
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Maybe something that is less known for people on /x/, and even in Belgium itself.
The demon Kludde is said to prowl in the, though less prevalent in this day and age, desolate countryside roads of Flanders. When a lone traveller walks by, the demon jumps in his neck until the traveller reaches his destination or day breaks. He makes himself known by rattling the chain he is forced to wear on his left ankle. He is not necessarily a malicious being, but in some stories he is said to have killed the people he ambushed.
He is also a known shapeshifter who can take on the appearance of a dog, a cat, a frog and a wolf, but all have the glowing blue eyes which determine it is in fact Kludde. It is also rumoured he is a werewolf, or a shapeshifting human, because he was once repelled by a woman who choked him with a cloth, which made him flee. The next day a local farmer's journeyman was discovered with pieces of the cloth between his teeth.
Will post more if people are interested.
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>>17116949
More pls
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>>17111766
Nah, no tailypo story in those books. There is a story of a ghost looking for its big toe.
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Bannik is the bathhouse (banya) spirit in Slavic mythology.[1] Slavic bathhouses resemble saunas, with an inner steaming room and an outer changing room. A place where women gave birth and practiced divinations, the bathhouse was strongly endowed with vital forces. The third firing (or fourth, depending on tradition) was reserved for the Bannik, and, given his inclination to invite demons and forest spirits to share his bath, no Christian images were allowed lest they offend the occupants. If disturbed by an intruder while washing, the Bannik might pour boiling water over him, or even strangle him.[1]
The Bannik had the ability to predict the future. One consulted him by standing with one's back exposed in the half-open door of the bath. The Bannik would gently stroke one's back if all boded well; but if trouble lay ahead, he would strike with his claws.[1]
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>>17111195
Darth Panthera
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>>17117807
He looks like spurdo :DDDD:D:D
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In Slavic mythology, Dola (pronounced doh-luh) are the protective spirits which embody human fate. They can appear in the guises of a god, a cat, a man, a mouse, or a woman. They have their own preferences and provinces; and they would hound you if you made choices that were not planned by Fate.
Dola means The Slavic spirit of mortal fate.
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>>17096677
>It smells like updog in here
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>>17117062
An almost unknown creature of the Low Countries is a waterdemon called the waternikker. It resides in ponds and streams and when someone gets too close to the water it tries to pull the trespasser into the water.
It's name sounds like the English word nigger, and has the same original meaning, black, but it has nothing to do with race.
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>>17098809
Really, that makes as much sense to you as a crashed weather balloon does? Honestly?
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>>17096677
Damn op your mom is sexy.
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>>17102025
I'm in Newfoundland.
You are correct, they were in Ethiopia for the most part.. apparently they are/were here as well.
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>>17096677
The catholic church even had some saints with dog heads, st. christopher, for example. They later changed that though.
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>>17097620
That's a widespread description of several mythological figures, like the Nightmare or the souther German Drud.
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>>17098934
We have Hammer Dwarves in our area. They steal the handles of hammers. However, they protect the workshop by letting themselves be seen when an accident is going to happen soon.
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>>17120301
I doubt that the name Nikker comes from black. It's very similar to other European water spirits, like the Scandinavian Nökken or the German Nöck or Nickel
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>>17110477
He didn't invent the creatures, if that's what you're asking
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Bagiennik was the name of water demons in the Slavic mythology. They were akin to the bathhouse spirit Bannik. They were subject to Wąda, lady of the lakes and the shallow streams, also known as the Queen of the Underwater Lawns.
The Bagienniks lived in the depths of lakes and rivers. They were capable of emitting an oily substance from the nostrils, which were located between the eyes or on the forehead. This substance was so hot that it burned the victims it hit, but it was also provided with notable healing abilities for rheumas, deep wounds, indigestion, heart illness and even infertility.
The presence of bagienniks could be detected by the bubbles on the water's surface, or by its darker and muddy colour.
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shadow creatures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MjCB1DkoqI&index=9&list=PL8igFQhvi9YOs83DOPj60ckOzOt1TCf-f
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>>17098948
>The first videos were pretty obviously just some idiot with too much time on his hands and a weird fucking suit....
Isn't that most YouTube videos??
Or....
Isn't that most people???
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>>17097247
Stellar grammar, homie.
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>>17097307
Again, stellar grammar.
Also, you are whe one who is the faggot.
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>>17121049
You really burnt me with your wisdom on grammar buddy
Now it's time fuck off FaggMcgee
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>>17099855
This just strikes me as a visual metaphor for the food chain.
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Blud, one of the Slavic fairies in Slavic mythology, is an evil-deity that causes disorientation and leads a person aimlessly around and round. The term also refers to illicit fornication, the desire for which Slavic clerics claimed to come from the Devil.
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Likhoradka (Russian Лихopaдкa) or tryasavitsa is a female spirit in Slavic mythology. Likhoradka was purported to be able to possess a person's body and cause sickness. In some tales, she is considered a creation of the dark deity Chernobog. Later Russian legends describe 12 Likhoradkas, with individual names associated with special illnesses. In modern Russian, the word likhoradka has obtained the meaning "fever". As a mythological figure, Likhoradka was related to the figure of Chuma, which in modern Russian is the term for plague. Likhoradka was sometimes portrayed as a tall woman with dishevelled hair, a pale face and a white dress, who brought sickness to people she tried to touch or to kiss.
The word likhoradka comes from ancient Russian likho (harm or bad luck) and radet which means to endeavor.
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The Alkonost is, according to Russian mythos and folklore, a creature with the body of a bird but the head of a beautiful woman. It makes sounds that are amazingly beautiful, and those who hear these sounds forget everything they know and want nothing more ever again.[1] She lives in the underworld with her counterpart the sirin.[2] The alkonost lays her eggs on a beach and then rolls them into the sea. When the alkonost's eggs hatch, a thunderstorm sets in and the sea becomes so rough that it is untravelable. The name of the alkonost came from a Greek demigoddess whose name was Alcyone. In Greek mythology, Alcyone was transformed by the gods into a kingfisher.
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>>17102025
Or the UK.
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>>17111195
Do they ride on giant moogle dolls too?
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>>17122991
Or Ireland. We have tons of settlements that date back to Viking times, some of them are even still standing today though in complete disrepair. Such a shame our government doesn't bother upkeeping these sights because their very cool to be around. The castle in my hometown has a fort structure thats still standing today that dates back to the early 1100's I think though don't quote me on that number but they were marvels of Viking masonry. The castle is all but destroyed but the fort they would have used to survey the area is in amazing condition.
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he Nawie or Nawki in Polish, the Mavka (Navka, Nyavka, Zalozhni mertsi) in Ukrainian, or simply Nav' in other Slavic languages are ghosts or the souls of persons that had met a tragic or premature death, particularly unchristened babies. In Slavic mythology, Nawie exist in the underworld called Nawia.
In Ukrainian mythology, Mavka is a type of mermaids with long flaxen hair. The name Mavka derives from Nav’ (Navka), which means "the embodiment of death." Mavky (plural) do not have a full body, have no reflection in water, do not cast shadows, and have no back, and so their insides can be seen.
The traditional view is that Mavky live in the woods of Galicia (Ukraine) and the Carpathians. Mavky symbolize the souls of children who were born dead or died unbaptized. They often appear in the form of beautiful young girls dancing and singing to lure young men into the woods where they would tickle them to death and chop their heads off.
To save a baby's soul, one had to throw up a kerchief during Trinity holidays, say a name and add "I baptize you". A rescued soul would then go to heaven. If a soul lived up to seven years and did not go to heaven, a baby would turn into a mermaid or a Mavka and would haunt people.
The term descends from PIE *navus ("corpse"), being cognate to Gothic naus ("dead"), Old Prussian nowis ("corpse"), and Tocharian naut ("to perish")
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>>17097014
they're puppets.
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>>17102298
skunk ape is one of the orangutans that got loose from the cartel boys private menageries back in the 1980's. theres a breeding population of chimpanzees and orangutans down there in the everglades. i knew some of the old timer drug smuggler types when i lived down there that are mostly retired, who have stories about animals from the zoo running feral out in the middle of nowhere areas, they would cut landing strips in to these fields or even those abandoned never built housing developments roads. there is a russian that even the other sour faced russians say is a humorless fuck, who has a story about seeing an elephant with full tusks down there.
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>>17120343
the catholic church had shitloads of weird stuff as canon up till the Vatican II deal.
there was at least 3 satyr convert saints, a reptile woman from asia minor saint, god knows how many dog, cat, and other headed saints, along with the one guy that was from antioch during the crusades with 4 arms that was 9 feet tall.
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The Hobo Draug. From Asian folklore, also called Quin Kek Bandol in Urdu Indonesian, which means (angry ass hobo). In old Latin, it is known as just Hobo Extremicus Maximus.
Legends say that he thrives in watery urban areas and occasionally steals food, or anything he can get his hands on. At night time he is supposedly appearing in the streets like a regular hairy person, either shouting
incomprehensible jibberish or tries to show you his birthmark on his left butt cheek.
If you feel threatened by the creature, you must spray him with soap water or just hit it really hard with a rolled up newspaper.
It is also considered good luck to see the Hobo Draug passed out on the streets, this is because it means that the creature is sleeping and unable to do anything else.
Some say that he is actually part monkey and part man with magical powers.
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>>17120343
>>17125083
Maybe they had those to convert Egyptians and Hindus?
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>>17125120
they werent really that close to those areas.
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>>17123005
Sith is actually a Scottish version of the Irish sidhe. Don't mock the Good Neighbors, buddy. It won't go well for you.
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>>17096938
what? my ax handles aren't safe?!
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>>17106894
Merry Christmas you mothy bastard
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>>17096938
The Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M has a long history of hazing freshmen cadets with axehandle beatings.
Carrying around axehandles was actually a privilege of upperclassmen for years until it was banned a couple years ago.
I'm sure that myth would've worked well at the University.
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German (Bulgaria and Serbian: Гepмaн, pronounced [ˈɡerman]) is a South Slavic mythological being,[citation needed] recorded in the folklore of eastern Serbia and northern Bulgaria. He is a male spirit associated with bringing rain and hail. His influence on these precipitations can be positive, resulting with the amount of rain beneficial for agriculture, or negative, with a drought, downpours, or hail. Rituals connected with German included making a doll intended to represent this personage. This effigy of German, made of rags, fired clay, or dried fruits, was rather large, usually with a distinct representation of the male genitals. It was produced and used in rituals exclusively by girls or young women
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Stuhać is a demonic mythical creature in Serbian mythology, recorded in Herzegovina.[1] Though its name is similar with zduhać, there is no actual similarity.
Stuhać lives in high mountains and barren areas; how it looks is not described, however it is known that it wears clutters made of human ligaments on its legs, so that it would not slip on mountain precipices.[1] If its clutter broke, he would pull ligaments from someone's legs to make new one
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>>17097247
Mothman is not "part man, part moth." Mothman was described by witnesses as a large, headless bird with two red reflective eyes in its chest.
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>>17101410
my skype is honeybea.r
i'm also middle tn
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>>17101410
well, shit. i live around there
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In Slavic mythology, Perun (Cyrillic: Пepyн) is the highest god of the pantheon and the god of thunder and lightning. His other attributes were fire, mountains, wind, the oak, iris, eagle, firmament (in Indo-European languages, this was joined with the notion of the sky of stone[2]), horses and carts, weapons (the hammer, axe (Axe of Perun), and arrow), and war. He was first associated with weapons made of stone and later with those of metal. Perun is the mythical smith so he is often associated with mining and metallurgy and his name seems also to be related to the ending of modern name of copper.
Perun is described as a rugged man with a copper beard.He rides in a chariot pulled by a goat buck and carries a mighty axe, or sometimes a hammer. The axe is hurled at evil people and spirits and will always return to his hand
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>>17101410
Not in Tennessee but I have a friend who saw what basically was a white werewolf if anyone's interested.
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>>17125109
Stop making up shit. It's unfunny.
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>>17120304
Have you seen what a weather balloon looked like back then? It was like 300ft of fucking wires n shit.
#1: They never presented any physical evidence to support/deny the weather balloon story either fucking way which if it were something as fucking trivial as a balloon they surely would have. I mean, honestly? "IT'S A WEATHER BALLOON BUT WE CAN'T SHOW YOU BECAUSE OF REASONS." At the very least, it WASN'T a weather balloon or was a super ultra sophisticated weather balloon that some other super power sent over here to study our weather, for use in future small talk, and they wanted to keep private.
#2: A weather balloon, at least back then, was much more than just a mini hot-air balloon with a small package in tow. They were a whole lot more than that, and all we see is some fucking aluminum foil or some shit in the released photos. Again, why no physical evidence if it's so trivial?
I'd gladly take the weather balloon theory any day, but I have yet to have anyone convince me. Give me a half-to-a-quarter-maybe-even-a-fifth of a good reason why they wouldn't submit legitimate physical evidence if it were such a silly fucking thing. Shit, they coulda just had one shipped in if they were really dedicated. Definitely don't, personally, think it was aliens, but come the fuck on.
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>>17115252
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I once saw a documentary many years ago where an archaeologist was excavating a site filled with fossilised ancient squid and they ended up looking like giant teeth in that state, which the presenter attributed dragon legends to.
Never seen this, great find anon. I'd heard tons of times about skulls being attributed to horrible creatures (ever seen a hippo skull? fucking terrifying), but the idea of a fossilized squid being attributed as Cthulhu's baby front tooth is hilarious (albeit interesting).
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>>17119808
Whaddup dog?
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>>17115252
>I suspect dinosaur fossils had a hand in dragon legends.
>Imagine being an uneducated dirt farmer in the middle ages and one day you dig up a dinosaur skull, you would shit yourself and cry for a dragon hunter.
This is pretty commonly accepted, but the question is how practically every single distant culture with a dragon myth specifies winged or otherwise flying lizards. It's not hard to get the idea of a giant reptile from a dinosaur skull, but unless pterosaurs were common worldwide this wouldn't be the case.
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>>17096890
Looks like a turtle to me
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Sirin is a mythological creature of Russian legends, with the head and chest of a beautiful woman and the body of a bird (usually an owl). According to myth, the Sirins lived "in Indian lands" near Eden or around the Euphrates River.[1][2]
These half-women half-birds are directly based on the Greek myths and later folklore about sirens.[2][3][4] They were usually portrayed wearing a crown or with a nimbus.[5] Sirins sang beautiful songs to the saints, foretelling future joys. For mortals, however, the birds were dangerous. Men who heard them would forget everything on earth, follow them, and ultimately die. People would attempt to save themselves from Sirins by shooting cannons, ringing bells and making other loud noises to scare the bird off.[3] Later (17-18th century), the image of Sirins changed and they started to symbolize world harmony (as they live near paradise). People in those times believed only really happy people could hear a Sirin, while only very few could see one because she is as fast and difficult to catch as human happiness. She symbolizes eternal joy and heavenly happiness.[6]
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>>17131031
Ok.
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>>17101212
Nice, kingsport area represent.
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Semargl or Simargl (Old Church Slavonic: Ceмapьглъ, Cимapьглъ) is a deity or mythical creature in East Slavic mythology, depicted as a winged lion or dog. An idol of Semargl was present in the pantheon of Great Prince Vladimir I of Kiev. It may be the equivalent of Simurgh in Persian mythology which is also represented as a griffin with a dog body. But according to Vyacheslav Ivanov and Vladimir Toporov, the name comes from the Slavonic Sedmor(o)-golvъ (with seven heads).
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Cikavac (Serbian pronunciation: [tsikaʋats]) is a mythical creature in Serbian mythology, imagined as a winged animal (a bird) with long beak and a pelican-like sack.[1]
A cikavac could be acquired by taking an egg from a black hen, which would then be carried by a woman under her armpit for 40 days, during which time one would not confess, cut nails, wash face or pray.[1] The cikavac would then suck honey from others' beehives and milk of others' cattle, and bring it to the owner; it would fulfill any owner's wish, and also enable its owner to understand the animal language.[1]
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