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    Scariest (or creepiest)

    The Black-Eyed Kids sounds like a punk group haha... but they're definitely not. If they do exist, god only knows what they are. Although I have a feeling the roots of the urban legend might be youths wearing those black-out style contact lenses.
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    Medieval bestiary and prestor john

    My appologies for getting back to this so late, I only have limited time sometimes to reply and wanted to write a decent response. I think you're spot on Alejandro, it seems that the idea of Dogheads did evolve from the earlier greco-roman myths. Ofcourse the interesting relationship between...
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    Norse cosmology

    Healthy debate is never a bad thing, as long as it remains respectful. I suppose it really depends where we come from in our own study. Comparitive folklore and mythology can only go so far until, to me, it crosses an inappropriate boundary. The most important and best way to understand a...
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    Norse cosmology

    I should have been more precise in my argument against what granpa was suggesting Alejandro, quite right for you to call me out on it. All three of your observations are correct and also what I find to be odd. I would say that adding these details to the story is inventing, not interpreting...
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    Norse cosmology

    No where in Gylfaginning does it say the above at all. You're now just inventing things.
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    Norse cosmology

    You seemed to right there, and by posting Snorri's conjecture about Troy and Asgard, you are agreeing with it. Remember, Snorri is a good source for some things, but you have got to see through his 13th century christian syncreticism. It's one thing to present authentic and reliable sources...
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    Norse cosmology

    I think you're playing into Snorri's re-envisioning a bit too much. Troy and Asgard were not the same place
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    Norse cosmology

    You've got to be joking... Syncreticism can only go so far until it frankly becomes insulting. This is not Norse cosmology.
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    Asuras: gods of chaos

    I'm sorry to ay but the original webpage you put up is fiction. Hindu and Buddhist myth is where the Asuras can be found and they don't appear anywhere else except in Indian based religions. The thing is, in trying to understand and familiarize yourself with the mythology you have to take it...
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    Medieval bestiary and prestor john

    No, they're not the ones I'm talking about. They may be earlier versions of what would turn into Dogheads. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynocephaly#Medieval_west http://bedejournal.blogspot.ca/2009/08/ratramnus-and-dog-heads.html
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    Favourite deity cast in a bad light

    With pleasure :). In the Ramayana (The Story of Rama), Rama is a King in northern Indian kingdom of Ayodhya. He's banished by trickery to the forest where he and his wife, Sita live in the wilds. Sita is abducted by a southern Indian Demon King named Ravana. Ravana rules a kingdom said to be...
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    Favourite deity cast in a bad light

    That's the thing with Hinduism though, the distinction between elements of good and bad all based on intention. Interestingly though, the Asuras must be devolved forms (some of them) of earlier tribal Gods, and so if history had been different perhaps Ravan would have been a deva and not a...
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    Local ghost stories

    Ahhh yes I've heard a few about Eldon House, I'm from Southern Ontario too! I know up in our area we have some stories about a Lake Huron monster, a giant serpent seen lurking in the depths. There's also one from Flesherton about a 'witch' who lived on a hill, when she died if you go to her...
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    Hello!

    I'm currently working on a book, not that that means anything haha... a kind of handbook to cosmology around the world. So, I've been trying to familiarize myself with the major myths of the major cultures, and then work my way down to more obscure ones. Classical is the benchmark, really...
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    Local ghost stories

    This is an area that I havn't really looked into too deeply, although I know a load from my own area back home and in Canada here. I'm curious if any of you have local ghost stories from your locale you'd like to share?
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    The rake

    There was a horror book I read called 'The Darkest Part of the Woods' set in a tiny English University town next to a wood inhabited by a demon made out of wood and who could turn himself into a thin twig, of whom all the local children kept seeing next to their sckool gate. Reminded me of...
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    Scariest (or creepiest)

    Hands down the rake... it's so creepy. The others are kind of fun, but to think of some stickman walking around is just, omg. There's also that legend about the kids with black eyes roaming about, knocking on doors trying to get into people's homes. That one is a bit freaky too.
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    Are celts in your own heritage?

    Most Brits have some sort of 'celt' in them somewhere, although there has never been identified a specific celtic genotype. Indeed, people all over Europe have some sort of celt in them. I'm originally from the Uk and although both my parents come from the lancashire/Yorkshire region, I have...
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    Norse cosmology

    The Hrimthursar and the Jotunar are two different races of Giants. Jotunar, who are as you say, the children of Bergelmir, dwell in Jotunheim: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jötunheimr Jotunheim was built by Odin and his brothers for the Jotuns to go and dwell there. I think perhaps we're working...
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    Norse cosmology

    No, I'm not missing the point...I disagree with the point. Atleast when it comes to Norse cosmology of what we have left over. Then again, in other cosmologies you're right this model is very important. Egyptian nun is very similar to what you're describing.
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