Yeah, about redcaps. You should maybe look up the actual lore, it’s similar to the ladies’.
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Submitted 4 days ago by Godric@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Godric@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Did you just assume they’re a bloodthirsty serial killer bathing their hats in blood based on appearance?
That’s faecism! You’re worse than my grandpa!
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Redcaps’ cap is bent, Nisses’ isn’t, no?
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yeah got to get your facts right
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Is that how they used to explain toddlers back the?
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 4 days ago
more likely autism.
its the age when they might start showing symptoms. it was easier for them to accept their child was replaced by a monster and the only way to bring them back is by torture and abandoned in the forest, than accepting that their child is not neurotypical
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
And regular drowning. Now we make up stuff like the smiley face killer or the missing 411 theory that there is someone going around shoving drunk dudes into the river.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Opposite for bichura/archura.
The male mimics human sounds to lure people into woods where they tickle the person to death.
Meanwhile the female just feeds chickens if happy, or breaks your plates if mad. Oh also they come out at night to spin. (Omg that’s so me :3)
Godric@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Doesn’t do it for me; I grew up camping in the deep woods, told tales of wendigos and skinwalkers. I need the creepy-er!
mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
türkiye’de bayçura. Not to be confused with bayça which is more like the “alb”/“alp” spirit.
TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 4 days ago
And steal their underwear for profit!
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 4 days ago
Steal the nymph water for profit. Extra fucky.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That is so unfair
squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
While I recently dug into some Alemannic folklore, I discovered a different spin on the “fairies/spirits drowning people” tale, the Dolden. Essentially these malevolent spirits/ghosts resemble children caught in trees above stretches of water. At night they will call out for help, pretending to be trapped children, but they only wish for the helpful people to approach the tree they sit in and then fall into the water below where they drown. According to the myth, the Dolden were once mortal children who left to drown in a flood and now punish humans.
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 4 days ago
Did none of them stop to think that killing the people that try to help trapped children might be contributing to the epidemic of people being unwilling to help trapped children?
No good deed, amirite?
squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Good point. I will mention it to them next time when I drown under one of their trees.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 days ago
They come from a time before people realized that revenge was an endless cycle. Like the old testament was full of that, where good and evil were mostly framed in terms of “good people are us, evil people are our enemies, and it is good to cause suffering to the evil people. Also, sometimes circumstances make one of us evil, until we stone them or something”.
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Dolden are so short sighted
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Specificaly punish the humans that would have helped them, leaving the bad ones alone.
Idiots.
Godric@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I have a buddy gearing up to run a Vaesen campaign, the Dolden sound like the exact vibe he’s going for. Ah, this campaign is going to be fucked up :)
GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Well I guess we got revenge with all dumping heavy metals and chemical filth into the waterways lol