A while back I talked a bit about how the Norse believed that the world would end. So this time let’s talk a bit about how they believed that the world got started.
Unsurprisingly, it involves murder.
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Well, I’m back, and this time I’m going to talk about the jorōgumo, a type of yōkai that shapeshifts and eats people. Which, now that I think about it.
Also, just as a warning, I’m going to be talking about spiders.
So, I think I may have found a Christmas-related folklore figure even creepier than Krampus, and since the holiday is later this week I figured I’d talk about her.
That figure, of course, is the Austrian Frau Perchta, also called Frau Berchta or Bertha.
Well, Christmas is almost upon us, so I’ve decided to take about the jolliest of topics: being eaten by a cat the size of a house.
Since we’re coming upon winter (in the northern hemisphere at least), I’m going to take a moment to discuss a decidedly winter-themed creature. That creature is the Japanese yuki onna.
Fun fact: yuki onna literally means “snow woman.” It also has a bunch of different names depending on where you are in Japan, but for simplicity’s sake I’m going with the above.
So, uh, that hiatus ended up being a lot longer than I thought that it would be. I’m back now, though, and today we’re going to be looking at the conception and birth of Helen of Troy.
Spoiler alert: it involves divine bestiality.
So, there are at least two gods in the Greek pantheon who were birthed by, of all people, Zeus, in kind of weird or esoteric ways. One of them was Dionysus, who got sown into Zeus’s thigh (or groin, depending on who you ask) as a fetus after Zeus accidentally vaporized his mom. The other one, and the one that most people probably know, is Athena.
The title probably gives away the outcome here, huh. Anyway, let’s talk about that for a bit.
Hello again! This time I’ve decided to head back to Japan, to talk about the mischievous (and sometimes deadly) kappa.
Welcome back! Today, we’re heading back to Ireland for a bit, to talk a little bit about one of Irish folklore’s more popular figures: the banshee.
Between this story and the story of Naricissus, it can probably be inferred tjat Ancient Greece had a bit of a think for turning cute boys into plants. So, le’s go ahead and dig into how the Greeks thought the hyacinth flower came about.
It’s delightfully tragic.
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