Every culture/region has stories and myths about the things existing there. What are the ones you find the most spooky and/or interesting?
Every culture/region has stories and myths about the things existing there. What are the ones you find the most spooky and/or interesting?
This is really interesting, I hope more people comment.
I kind of have one. I can’t tell if it’s an actual lore or just something my bipolar priestess told me because she wanted to have an answer when I asked her if evil existed outside of human nature.
She told me of the stick men.
She said they were malicious spirits that dwelled in the nearby forest. When you look upon them, they look like sapling trees, dead and leafless even in the height of summer, but still rooted to the ground. At least while you’re looking. When your gaze is elsewhere they creep closer to you, surround you, until it is too late.
She discouraged me from wandering the deep wood and threatened to bury me to my neck in salt just for thinking about them, lest my interest summon them closer to town.
There’s no record of these creatures as folk lore anywhere that I can find, and their description is vague and tropey enough she probably just made it all up.
Probably.
I need more information about your culture, if you’re willing. Are you in a western country? Are you actually in danger of being buried in salt? Is salt burial common in your country? In your religion? Is it a legal practice? I have so many questions, and if you’re open to answering them, you’d make me very happy. Lol. But if not, I understand.
Bet you 5 bucks it’s some stupid wicca thing in the usa.
I’ll take that bet but choose to modify instead of money, a fresh loaf of baked bread from scratch.
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Or stole it from the weeping angels on Doctor Who
Or Macbeth.
I should actually read/watch that one of these days.
Sounds a bit like the topiary scene in The Shining. (Book version)
There is an abandoned spruce plantation right behind my house. The trees move, for real. Not their roots but the branches. One day you can walk right though easy, then the next the path is crossed with branches. This happens for real and I’ve not found a cause or explanation online. Maybe it’s moisture content changing in the branches.