I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the water horse legens weren't exclusively related to nokken.
Anyway, here we go:
Dearg-Due is an Irish vampiress. Originally a woman of great kindness and beauty, she fell in love with a common peasant. Her father did not approve, and forced her instead to marry an older man, who locked her up and abused her horribly (his favourite pastime was watching her bleed), until she finally committed suicide. She rose from the dead shortly thereafter to feed on the blood of children and young men.
The Aswang is one of the most feared myths of the Philippines. A shapeshifting monster, it could supposedly disguise itself perfectly as a human and live among them by day, while transforming into something to hunt and consume their flesh by night-- most often an animal. Among their favourite tricks was to make their voices softer the closer they got to a victim, so their prey would think they were actually moving further away.
^their favourite meals were children and pregnant women.
the Grootslang is a south African legendary creature that, for all intents and purposes, is pretty much chalked up to a fuck up. Basically the Gods weren't entirely sure what they were doing yet, and set their Sim sliders too far. They were trying to create new creatures for the earth, but realized they'd made the Grootslang too smart and powerful. So they split them up, dividing the Grootslang into separate creatures: the first elephants and the first snakes. One escaped this fate, and went to live in a giant hole known as the bottomless pit, where he likes to horde gems
The Greek deity Pan was so relentless in his pursuit of a nymph that, in desperation, she transformed into a Reed to escape his lust. Pan responded by cutting her down and turning her into an instrument-- the infamous "Pan Flute."
Aristaeus was the god cheesemaking, beekeeping, and honeymead.
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Fun fact: Grootslang means “big snake” in Afrikaans
In Swedish mythology we have several water-monster myths. Näcken (or Nækken, because Nøkken iS NOT HOW IT'S SPELLED (It means Naked, by the way)), Bäcka-hästen (River-horse), Brunns-trollet (The Well-troll) and Jörmundur (Also known as Jørmundurgandr, the Sea Serpent). These myths were created to keep children away from wells, rivers and other waters, but were then not dissuaded in adulthood, so many people actually believed there to be flesh eating horses and naked men waiting to lure them into the water. Which was probably for the better, since most swedish people before the middle ages didn't know how to swim.
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The old Nykr has many names, Nøkken is the norwegian name for this mythical creature
Anyway, here we go:
Dearg-Due is an Irish vampiress. Originally a woman of great kindness and beauty, she fell in love with a common peasant. Her father did not approve, and forced her instead to marry an older man, who locked her up and abused her horribly (his favourite pastime was watching her bleed), until she finally committed suicide. She rose from the dead shortly thereafter to feed on the blood of children and young men.
The Aswang is one of the most feared myths of the Philippines. A shapeshifting monster, it could supposedly disguise itself perfectly as a human and live among them by day, while transforming into something to hunt and consume their flesh by night-- most often an animal. Among their favourite tricks was to make their voices softer the closer they got to a victim, so their prey would think they were actually moving further away.
the Grootslang is a south African legendary creature that, for all intents and purposes, is pretty much chalked up to a fuck up. Basically the Gods weren't entirely sure what they were doing yet, and set their Sim sliders too far. They were trying to create new creatures for the earth, but realized they'd made the Grootslang too smart and powerful. So they split them up, dividing the Grootslang into separate creatures: the first elephants and the first snakes. One escaped this fate, and went to live in a giant hole known as the bottomless pit, where he likes to horde gems
The Greek deity Pan was so relentless in his pursuit of a nymph that, in desperation, she transformed into a Reed to escape his lust. Pan responded by cutting her down and turning her into an instrument-- the infamous "Pan Flute."
Aristaeus was the god cheesemaking, beekeeping, and honeymead.
Can't type the app