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Cryptid comparison (media.kbin.social)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Europe even have cryptic outside mythology? Nessie doesn't count.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Werewolves, vampires, baba yaga, fae, bean sidhe, vättar, tomtar, will o the wisp, trolls, Näcken, sylphs, undines, changelings, sirens, cyclops, gorgons, demon boars galore, and loads more local legends

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Italians

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Terrifying

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I heard once that they supposedly have to speak with their hands. Sounds horrific.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'VE SEEN ONE ONCE, IT WAS TERRIFYING! IT WAS ALL "bibedi bobedi" AND WANTED ME TO EAT PIZZA!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Just wear pineapple around your neck, you'll be fine.

Unless the specific cryptid is attractive. Which they are. Then you will be the one chasing them around begging then to make you pizza. Its a weird power they have.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Dragons, basilisks, unicorns, fire breathing salamanders were part of the average folk beliefs in the European middle ages and Renaissance. For example, in the gorgeous Lady and the Unicorn tapisseries from ~1500 you can see in Paris.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Where salamander

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Symbol of Francis I of France, visible in his castle in Blois.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Very cool.

I was searching the tapestry like where's waldo.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'd say that cryptids are a modern iteration of the same phenomenon which used to be mythologic creatures.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Now they call it angels, demons and the book of Revelations