Puff
Damn you C'thulhu, with your debunking laughter and preceeing question… You make me feel so silly! D:
“Hahaha, what?”, is my new line.
Puff
Damn you C'thulhu, with your debunking laughter and preceeing question… You make me feel so silly! D:
PuffNarwhal horns helped the myth, but they didn't start it. It's older than Medieval times anyway ;)
I heard the notion of unicorns was started in Medieval times (at least in Europe) by traders who sold Narwhale horns, claiming they came from magical horned horses called Unicorns.
Rutger
My nipples are an ocean of pain.
AQua_ng
When it comes to prostitution, the price is…um, Bob Barker.
Argent_Nightmarenow that´s a very good point but still … mah dad says that the hooded figures or whatever they are that I see in the night are just some stupid brats but that´s nearly impossible since we live in the more obscure regions of Iceland … that might be a bit of a problem to solve the issue … I really wanna know what´s going on in my home
Just a note… in English, it's called an “Alip” or “Allip”
If I remember the legend(s) correctly, an Alip is a spectre born of dark will that feeds on fear and anguish, and is not technically a ghost, but rather is a semi-intelligent pseudo-ghost… Are we thinking the same thing, or no?
Again, if I remember correctly, an Alip appears in a dark hooded cloak or coat… and, allegedly, occasionally something more akin to a hooded sweatshirt in modern times. I suppose that even evil spirits can't escape the emogoth plague?
GlargI heard that the Greeks used to find Mammoth skulls, and the large nostril cavity looked like a giant eye hole, and the Greeks thought they were the skulls of long-dead cyclopses. And damn you, C'thulhu, if you “Hahaha, what?” me I'll… I'll… Go cry in my pillow I suppose. D:
Cyclops-N/A
GlargYou silly. That was “for entertainment purposes only”
Dragons- Proven (someone found the ancient remains of a dead dragon)
Puff
And damn you, C'thulhu, if you “Hahaha, what?” me I'll… I'll… Go cry in my pillow I suppose. D:
BekefelDon't be lazy, search.
Glarg, you peaked my interest.
Links?
CthulhuGlargYou silly. That was “for entertainment purposes only”
Dragons- Proven (someone found the ancient remains of a dead dragon)
Glarg
Werewolves- N/A (I only believe you can be a were wolf if some beastiality incident
CthulhuDancingChaos
No.
Why does everyone keep stealing my line…
ozoneocean
Use of the word “myth” doesn't define something's reality or lack thereof, it's just a word used by people for various reasons. ;)
And as I've said, “unicorns”, “dragons” etc were real, in that this is how our ancestors defined unusual creatures that they didn't have much experience with. The whole “myth” idea and the fairy stories that surrounded them came later. Reality and history are more complicated than you'd think…
Do some reading on Dragons and unicorns, it's quite interesting to see how these ideas developed.
ozoneoceanActually, werewolves have an origin in greek mythology, when Zeus transformed king Lycos into a man-wolf for killing his son Arcas.
Werewolves as we know them now were never even mythical. Those come straight from 20thC Hollywood: the limits of the technology at the time meant that “wolf men” were the best they could do for the moves, so that's how those things came about. Werewolves in stores were humans who fully transformed, or wolves who fully became human. Other animals could do it as well, from rabbits to tigers…