trap a king in a castle underground that can rise to the surface with a song so you can dance with him and turn everyone else in that castle into sheep and wolves
Opposite for bichura/archura from Turkic mythology.
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)
And steal their underwear for profit!
Steal the nymph water for profit. Extra fucky.
Yeah, about redcaps. You should maybe look up the actual lore, it’s similar to the ladies’.
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!
Yeah got to get your facts right
That is so unfair
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.
Specificaly punish the humans that would have helped them, leaving the bad ones alone.
Idiots.
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?
Good point. I will mention it to them next time when I drown under one of their trees.
Fuck they gonna do if you just…know how to swim?
Pout
Thank you, that is helpful
Dolden are so short sighted
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”.
Yea, I was mostly joking. It’s also a bunch of children who are not well known for understanding the intricacies of social systems. They are also fictional, so there’s that. I do appreciate you adding that context, but I figured I’d explicitly state I was joking in case someone assumed I was actually blaming fake children for their own misfortune. I just thought it was funny because they’re not even taking revenge on people who would have wronged them. It’d be one thing to trick people who decide to ignore them into drowning, but they’re tricking people who decide to help. It’s like the opposite of revenge. It’s more like “if I can’t be saved no one can be”, which is admittedly a very childlike attitude.
Lol yeah, I should have included that the emotional immaturity was such that they believed wanting revenge on a group for things they had nothing to do with or for reasons of jealousy/envy was normal. It was an attempt to continue your joke that the story creators were didn’t even have the logic to consider that angle.
Or they were smart enough to make up horrifying stories that would stick with people and prevent them from doing dumb shit like going to play in a swamp and just saying “don’t play in swamps” will make some people even more likely to play in swamps to prove they can.
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 :)
Is that how they used to explain toddlers back then?
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
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.
