Thank you so much for having me! It's wonderful to get a chance to share a bit of my culture!

@lofilitart

2 жыл бұрын

Your stories were kind of creepy. And I loved it!

@KiX-K4T13

2 жыл бұрын

It was AWESOME! 💛

@barrydysert2974

2 жыл бұрын

There is so much more to this world than what we see. Thank you for sharing your experiences and cultural richness!:-) 🙏 Lovely art work too! 💜

@diegos7337

2 жыл бұрын

So interesting, in My country there is a similar myth as the Victra, they call them Elfs or Gnomes... It is very similar, so interesting.

@DemonicEngineer

2 жыл бұрын

But what about the giants who threw 2 boulders against church bells, but missed entirely, thus creating the lakes Vänern and Vättern as well as the islands Öland and Gotland.

When looking at the timestamps, I thought 'HelloFresh' counted as a strange and terrifying Swedish creature

@chillax319

2 жыл бұрын

Truly terrifying. It will make your stomach full and taste buds happy.

@Friendship1nmillion

2 жыл бұрын

You're mistaking Hello Fresh for anything in my dreams after I've eaten blue cheese. 😆

@tommiefunk2099

2 жыл бұрын

The Casual Criminalist is also sponsored by Hello Fresh and the ad is great. "I can't get Hello Fresh in Prague, but my editor says they're great!"

@arthurhenriqueguimaraes4969

2 жыл бұрын

it isn't?

@LFnova9

2 жыл бұрын

If you have never been stalked by a HelloFresh before its because you don't stink.

I am swedish and I just want to mention about Skogsrået thata she can also give hunters success in hunting if you carry breadcrumbs in your pocket to make peace with her. She is my favorite in our lore ❤

@bigdanger8246

Жыл бұрын

Did she have big 'Thatas'😁

@Donathon-xt2nl

Жыл бұрын

Lussie.... my Dad was Swedish American... but was so corrupted by christian believe...I'm 60...I want so much to learn my birthright....if I offend you I'm sorry.....is there anything I can read??????.

@futanaritentaclefucker

Жыл бұрын

@@Donathon-xt2nl corrupted my ass dude just wants his soul saved

@Bald_Zeus

11 ай бұрын

Never heard of skogsrået, is it just another name for Näcken or are they different entities? Nvm he covered näcken in the video

@Wellch

11 ай бұрын

I got some Reese’s Pieces , would that be okay?

I’ve was once told a similar legend to the Nøkken by my Swedish great grandmother. The story was about a creature called the Fossegrim. This is a water faerie that is known for its great music and great hunger. It’s said if you give a fossegrim one piece of food, it will teach how to play a single note. The more you give the more you will learn. One man once gave a fossegrim an entire feast, and the Fossegrim taught the man so hard, by the end his finger tips will bleeding.

@ScrumptiousRump

2 жыл бұрын

So… where can I meet this Fossegrim?

@nickel7065

2 жыл бұрын

Fossegrim is just another name for Näcken that means "the ugly one in the rapids" or "the evil one in the rapids" . Traditionally you gave evil creatures other names when talking about them to avoid getting noticed by them. As a few more examples the Skogsrå was also named "Skogsfrun" or "Skövsnuan", Satan was named "Hornper" and so on.

@deviantoutcast

2 жыл бұрын

As has already been said: Näcken as he's known in Swedish (Nøkken being Nynorsk, Bokmål or Danish - or all three - just not Swedish), is known all over Scandinavia under several different names and with variations to it's attributes and general nature. Differences occur not just between the modern counties of Sweden, Norway and Denmark, but also within each of the nations - perhaps most so in Norway and Sweden as they are both countries that, especially prior to the modern age (i.e. post second industrial revolution at the end of the 19th century), varied - and still varies - greatly from north to south. Geographically they both featured vast areas with deep forestation, large lakes and water paths, and in the north and along the border: mountainranges. All of this created nations where a lot of the population lived in smaller communities that weren't necessarily connected to any of the cities that provided higher learning, contemporary state of the art health care etc. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was still common to find people who never in their whole life even met someone from another village than their own ("a village" in this context equals a handfull or two of farms located close enough that they frequented the same church). Therefore, to this day, you still see a quite large variation - due to dialects and local customs - of the same basic myths and mythological creatures depending on where you are in the country.

@deviantoutcast

2 жыл бұрын

Asch! I forgot, so here's a minor addendum to the last: "Fossegrim" is - as Nicke L said, another name for Näcken. And just by looking at the name, without knowing, I can tell,with a reasonable high degree of certainty, that we're probably dealing with the province of Värmland, or at least one of the provinces that borders on Norway, but not in the most northern parts. So, Dalsland, Värmland, Dalarna, Härjedalen, Jämtland. I.e. Western parts of Svealand and south western parts of Norrland.

@theetruetolkienpatriot7701

2 жыл бұрын

very good

I am majoring in anthropology and archaeology here in the states. One thing that so often I find is these small stories about the supernatural from oral accounts. I just love the idea that in the past these stories might not have been just a story, but interwoven in reality. The last part of the video was fascinating, to have 3 generations experience something otherworldly.

@AllyCakes12

2 жыл бұрын

Omg yes!! I believe these stories were true at one point. It's like telephone. after decades of passing down the stories, it gets exaggerated and becomes "folklore".

@EvilSanta482

2 жыл бұрын

Well many of these stories had some kind of real world start. Take the Banshee for example, this was most likely just a story to scare the children into obedience like the boogeyman as well as keep them glued to their beds when the father was railing the mother. Last thing they wanted was the kids to walk in during the deed. Much like today its a total mood killer. So the tales of a wailing woman in the night would illicit fear and keep them glued to their beds instead of getting curious.

@al145

2 жыл бұрын

Good luck to you, i did that a decade ago, but it didn't work out for me.

@emilybarclay8831

2 жыл бұрын

I have an anthropology degree here in the U.K. and I love how you can clearly see how every tale is either a warning or explanation. We have similar tales here in the U.K., kelpies warn you not to go near water, changelings explain conditions like autism and Down’s syndrome, etc

@ostrowulf

2 жыл бұрын

Where I grew up it is mostly sniniq folks talk about. I remember as a teen working on the rivers at my summer job, one of the Nuxalk guys I worked with pointed out past the estuary and across the inlet to the forest and told me "that is sniniq territory. Do I beleive in them? No. Would I go camping there, deffinately not."

Ireland would be good. There's more than just leprechauns. Cool series. Something from Africa would also be cool.

@jon79jw61

2 жыл бұрын

Go back through the videos ..they have what you're looking for lol

@timd4524

2 жыл бұрын

@@jon79jw61 Oh did they do Ireland? Guess I'll stroll through the playlist.

@timd4524

2 жыл бұрын

@@jon79jw61 Lol. They missed a bunch.

@CLEFT3000

2 жыл бұрын

They really do believe in the small folk

@cillianennis9921

2 жыл бұрын

I was just about to suggest that I always love hearing myths about my homeland and find it hard to find them most of the time

Skogsået is not as evil as many non scandinavian/swedish sources describes them as. They could be very kind creatures, even helping lost cattle, pets and children find their way back home and could be loving partners if married (as long as you didn't expect them to be subserviant or misstreated them). However they were unpredictable and could be dangerous from time to time, like the forest they ruled over

@raquellofstedt9713

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that´s what I hear, and they can be very kind to people who are polite to them when they are out and mingling with humans at fairs, etc. calling their attention in a discrete manner to the fact that their tail is showing below their skirts, being generous, etc.

@brucejedilee5290

2 жыл бұрын

@@raquellofstedt9713 Yes but they have at time pulled mean pranks on people, making them walk around for hours in the forest and always end up at the same spot. Other times they have attacked people out of nowhere seemingly for fun. They are very chaotic creatures (or creature depending on interpretation)

@beardedgeek973

2 жыл бұрын

Also she seems to have two distinct forms. In about half of the country she is described as in the video, in the other she is without a hole, but instead her back is covered in rough tree bark. The reason for both, of course, is that she is so close to the forest. The hole is not a hole into a fleshy chest, it is like the inside of a hollow tree.

@cyborgzloth

2 жыл бұрын

Shit that info bcaout helping kids would've been realy valuable info for me as a kid.. I was scared shitless whenever I walked in the woods of skogsrået

@brucejedilee5290

2 жыл бұрын

@@cyborgzloth Really?

I'm so proud to be a native Swede! Our stories, fables and folkore are truly a sight to behold!

@wolfganggugelweith8760

Жыл бұрын

Look on KZread for „Discovering the Swedish Bigfoot 1-3“. Extremely interesting. Greetings from Linz-Austria 🇦🇹😎👍🐺!

@jakomioftherose2434

9 ай бұрын

Ja, vi har bra mytologi och folktro.

I'm a native swede and my great grandmother live isolated in a forest and when I was younger I used to stay the summer and Christmases at her house and she would say: gå inte ut i skogen för då kanske vättar och troll ta dig) wich in English means: dont go into the forest because vättar and troll might take you) and she would tell stories that you should always take care of the animal's around you because otherwise the forest elves might hurt you or your family the same way you hurt the animal's, that alone made me feed the wild animal's with different foods that my grandmother made just for them, she did some kibble kinda thing and salads for the animal's and put them in a feeding thing on the edge of her property, she also said that if you hunted animal's for food you need to put some of the meat back to the nature so that the forest elves can revive the animal from the piece of meat and make it live again, idk but she told a lot of different stories about the creatures and their connection to the nature, she also said that if I don't have silver on me when I go to the store that I might get taken by the ghosts of people that died there long ago and haven't gotten their vengeance, so whenever I walked/biked the 17km distance from her house to the store I always had a silver watch that my great grandfather used but it broke long ago, I was terrified of the forest as a kid because of these stories but when I got a bit older my great grandfather would take me out into the forest and he would say that as long as I respect the spirits of the land I would always find my way back to their house and funny enough I once got trusted by my mom at age 11 to go on my own from my moms place to my great grandmother/grandfather I couldn't walk the road there I had to go through the forest so I just took the watch and put it in my pocket and went on my journey, I got lost once and stayed besides a tree and hugged it saying: jag vill till mormor o morfar du vet att de är bra människor så hjälp mig komma dit) then when I looked up from the tree I saw something red and I walked towards it and when I got the full view I saw that it was my great grandmother's outhouse and I was so happy because I didn't know I was so close. I don't really believe in all the things that my grandmother said but it does really feel like the forests have something supernatural to them but I don't know what it is

The huldras are my favorite creature from Scandinavian folklore. They can be good or evil depending on which version of them you read.

@Lenosallose

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@KC______

2 жыл бұрын

@@Lenosallose "Casper"?

@huldaolafsdottir4898

2 жыл бұрын

They are called Huldufólk in Iceland.

Another feature of the draugr? Each and every one of them carries at least a couple of coins on them.

@thetwelfth9987

2 жыл бұрын

So if you slay a bunch you can make money to buy items from the shop

@fluffygengar3533

2 жыл бұрын

In Skyrim, many of the draugr standing in the alcoves have a few coins at thier feet sometimes.

@BingleBangleBungle

2 жыл бұрын

And they almost always have a smallish bowl of bone meal.

@victorcastaneda5767

2 жыл бұрын

If you are knowledgeable in the arcane arts after you slay it you can reanimate it to serve you then watch it turn to dust

In Norway we also get a sea-version of the draugr, simply known as draug or "draugen" (the draug). It's the spirt of someone who died at sea, and now haunts the coast. It's typically described as what you would expect a dead guy from the sea to look like, except his head is composed entirely of seaweed, and he is sometimes said to be sailing in half a boat.

@thatsicklypup

2 жыл бұрын

Sweden have an equivalent of a sea-based draug as well, known as "strandvaskare" (beach-washer/panner); drowned sailors or fishermen who would haunt the shores not far from the body of water in which they perished.

@jomar_sl

Жыл бұрын

it is said that if you see a blue light at sea, seek to land immediately. it is a foresight of draugen

This is a perfect addition to my mythology studies. If I had to pick a country to look into, I'd like to see you cover Mongolia.

@Msmargret1

2 жыл бұрын

Mongolia would be very cool. Thanks for this!

Now this is absolutely incredible, as a Swede I’m both proud and terrified great job!

@alexanderludvigsen1893

2 жыл бұрын

our mythology in scandinavia is just fucking terrifying to be honest

@wolfganggugelweith8760

Жыл бұрын

Look on KZread for „Discovering the Swedish Bigfoot 1-3“. Greetings from Linz Austria 🇦🇹😎👍🐺

- Creatures of Sweden Höhö, that's us! I could finally threw this to my friends and be like " _SEE! I AM NOT CRAZY! I KEEP TELLING YOU THAT NYMPHS ARE CRAZY MURDEROUS PSYCHOS!_ " x3 I learned a lot of these as a kid. Wish I had kept up with the knowledge more as I grew up. I really should get back into reading mythology. Ah, so much to read ~

@jackielinde7568

2 жыл бұрын

Most folklore have nymphs as crazy and murderous (and horny) psychos. Sadly, pop culture has twisted around what we think of most things from folklore. I blame Tolkien for this.

@sebswede9005

2 жыл бұрын

@@jackielinde7568 and George RR Martin

@jackielinde7568

2 жыл бұрын

@@sebswede9005 No. George RR Martin has had little impact on shaping mythology in the modern era. What we think of elves, dwarves, nymphs, orcs, ogres, etc. can all be traced back to Middle Earth and Tolkien's other works.

Folklore from the Philippines. After watching the Trese series they seem to have some interesting creatures

Nice video series! Loved the idea! edit: In Brazil we've got some different/strange folk creatures: Saci (one footed trickster), Boitatá (a fire snake), Curupira (forest guardian), Mula Sem Cabeça, Cuca, Boto Rosa, Caipora, etc etc etc

Thanks for sharing these stories! I lived in Norway for many years and the folklore there is super interesting and definitely my favourite. Once I could read Norwegian books, I discovered so many more mythical creatures and legends than what is available in English!

@comesect

2 жыл бұрын

I noticed this researching what I could, wish more could be translated.

@AnnaBridgland

2 жыл бұрын

@@comesect Yes there's definitely a big information gap there unfortunately!

@Melle06aa

2 жыл бұрын

What has Norway got to do with this bruh

I would like to learn about the cryptids of Central America

So cool! I’d love to hear more about the “more obscure” ones like these so dealer’s choice haha Idk if I’ve commented this before but the Vittra is very reminiscent of the “duwende” and the “nuno” in Philippine folklore. They’re said to live in random/abandoned places and we’re taught to say “tabi, tabi po” or excuse me when passing through so we don’t accidentally stomp on them or their property. Personal experience: supposedly, when I was a kid, I was favored by a “white/nice duwende” that lived in our yard. I don’t remember “making friends with them” but I do remember being confused why people kept asking me to give them lucky numbers to bet on. Allegedly, my “duwende friend” would tell me winning numbers but stopped when a neighbor found me “talking to an invisible friend”, put two and two together and got jealous of my “supernatural favor/luck”. I’m also told I was sent to a “manghihilot” (kinda like a masseuse + witch doctor) to sever my ties with the supernatural. Sorry for the long comment but hopefully it’ll help with research? Haha As always, rock on, Myth and Mando ❤️

@albinyxell6053

2 жыл бұрын

Really interesting story! But just a quick note: Her name is probably Manda. A pretty common girls name in sweden :) kinda hard to hear it with myths accent tho

@viktormuerte

2 жыл бұрын

Notice that the myling is similar to a tianak? Also a manghihilot seems closer to a chiropractor than a masseuse, imo. Cheers and stay safe kabayan.

I'd love to learn about the Taino Mythology and their creation story

@bethany4986

2 жыл бұрын

Yesssssss same here!

@sploojey4473

2 жыл бұрын

This

@fluffygengar3533

2 жыл бұрын

Your nose isn't very red.

@rednose3375

2 жыл бұрын

@@fluffygengar3533 😂😂

I currently live in Brasil and the myths and legends and folkore here are terrifying and wonderful, magical and mysterious! It would be great to see you explore the world of the Cuca (a crocodile witch), the Curupira (with feet facing backwards and his hair on fire, he attacks those who harm the forest) the Saci Perere (a mischievious one legged pipe smoking fellow), and so many more! Hope you consider it! This was fascinating! Thanks to both of you!

@garlicx4828

Жыл бұрын

Oi linda, quer trocar uma ideia com o thor aqui rs? ;)

If you don't feel like moving from northern Europe, you could always go east and cover Finnish/Finnic mythology. It's not the same as Scandinavian or Slavic.

@legogonkdroid3792

2 жыл бұрын

kalevala

@Melle06aa

2 жыл бұрын

Finnish mythology is actually kinda similar to Norse/slavic tho

@ashlykuhn2220

2 жыл бұрын

You eastlanders need to calm down we beat u before

I love how some of these appear in games, like Draugrs in Skyrim or Mylings in The Witcher 3

As a swede, I am so happy for this video!

Having someone from that culture talk about their experiences with their local folklore is so amazing! I love that personal touch!

I love the story about the Vittra, when I was in the Philippines they shared a story very similar to that but they called it "nu-no sa punso" loosely translated as 'earthly creature that lives on a mound', it's essentially the same theme/story as the Vittra and you gotta say "tabi-tabi po, Nuno sa punso" which is loosely translated to "move aside, spirit on the mound." This is something you usually do if you see a mound that looks like an ant hill, or if you're walking around a bush-land area with lots of undergrowth.

Very very cool I've always been fascinated with the swedes and their culture there's more to them than just the Vikings❤️

”Mara” is used in both swedish and english word for night-Mare/Mar-dröm :)

@ShermanistDruid

2 жыл бұрын

And Danish, mare-ridt/mare-ride

@Mara-Vladu

11 ай бұрын

(Sigh) So, Mara means nightmare...

I tried to purchase the family plan 5 meals for two weekly, but they don't accept prepaid cards. I am a traveling nurse, so most of my pay cards are prepaid debit where I get same day pay. Rarely do I use a credit or debit card. Anyway I tried for you because I love your content and I am a long time fan.

Nice to see Sweden represented. I do love our folklore and mythology. I must admit, i warn before peeing outdoors too. 🇸🇪

The unbaptized child reminds me of a quest in witcher 3. Suddenly missed playing that game.

@rossmelldavid800

2 жыл бұрын

@@offlinegamer6756 yesss! That one! I already forgot the name since the game is huuuuge! 😅

I would love to see Irish next. Or maybe Polish, Chech etc? And to let go of European folklore, Chile or Japan would be nice. :) Enough to keep you going for a while? :D

@Friendship1nmillion

2 жыл бұрын

#Irish folklore is why I liked your comment. 📖🍀🍄⚒

@kananstark9839

2 жыл бұрын

Chinese

@benjaminprietop

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, I'm from Chile and I love our mythology

Id love to see Ireland next! My ancestry is from there and I have looked into some of the creatures from there but not many. Also you could look into Maya or Aztec mythology as they often get overlooked!!

I have heard lots of Swedish folk tales through my childhood, like stories of Giants and Trolls who hate church bells, Gnomes who take care of the farm but punish you if you forget to give them porridge, and the aforementioned Näcken. But while I keep finding videos about it on KZread, I've never heard anyone in Sweden talk about Draugr. No one I know in Sweden has heard of them outside of Skyrim.

@bmore3319

2 жыл бұрын

Skyrim probably got the draugr from the book Njal's saga or some other Icelandic literature from the viking times. Since Iceland was colonized by the Norwegians it might never have been part of the Swedish mythology, or at least not originate from there. But who knows, for some reason the Icelanders were mostly the only vikings that actually wrote things down (besides on rocks).

I absolutely loved this video! A video on Romanian/Dacian (or Balkan) mythology would be really cool as well!

I would LOVE to see this series continue! It really doesn't matter to me what culture's cryptids you cover, as I'm fascinated by all cultures and am thrilled to learn, relearn, or review anything I can. Thank you very much!

Yay Scandinavian lore. Love it.

Great video! Can recommend a great podcast about swedish folklore called När man talar om trollen. It is currently only in Swedish though. 👍🏻

@nanna4946

2 жыл бұрын

Tack för tipset! 🙏🏻🙌🏻☀️

I’d love to hear more about Native American and Inuit mythology and folklore! I feel like I never hear or read about much of it without it being over shadowed by colonial beliefs.

@dibti0

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Sedna is a favorite of mine.

@andresparra114

2 жыл бұрын

I would love that too, But where do you begin there is so much! Bigfoot, Hoodag, Jersey Devil, Champ and so many more.

@jeremyfrost2636

2 жыл бұрын

@@andresparra114 Dig deeper than the stuff that white people know. Tizheruk, maybe?

@andresparra114

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeremyfrost2636 ? What was that about?

@jeremyfrost2636

2 жыл бұрын

@@andresparra114 It's a 7 foot long eel-like creature from Inuit mythology. It's nice and scary looking, bigtime carnivore, perfect thing for this channel to cover.

A great video dropping as soon as the rain started 👌🏾

I would absolutely LOVE to see more of this series! It's fun to learn about another culture's folklore! I don't know which one I would like to see next, so surprise me. 😄💖

Swede here, excited to watch this!!!

I really love this new series you are starting.

Japan has so much lore to explore. (Unintentional Rhyming)

@mr.smithsgovermentclass4556

2 жыл бұрын

But retroactively accepted 🙃

As a distant American girl, who has 40% Scandinavian blood, this mythology and lore greatly interests me! 😅 What a fantastic video! Thanks to this channel and guest Mando!

Another fascinating video! I love hearing folklore & mythologies from all the places.

This sounds amazing for a series. Thank you

Can you create a playlist for Scandinavian folklore/mythology?

@codyj.braunva5406

2 жыл бұрын

@@nickfrost9771 sthu with your spam

@SophiaAstatine

2 жыл бұрын

@@nickfrost9771 It's the worst part of Scandinavia.

Enjoyed the video very much. So much diversity out there I don’t think you can go wrong no matter what country or culture you pick. Excited for the next one.

Really lovely artwork Mando - Alltid ha respekt för dom som inte visar sig.

My family is from Sweden and when I go and visit them my friends out there I've never thought to ask them about this topic. Now I know what to bring up next time I'm out that way. Thanks for the upload!

So that baby creature imediatly reminded me of the Witcher. How many overlaps are between Scandinavian and I guess, Western/East Slavic mithology? I ask cuz, as a Romanian, wich would be closer mostly to South Slavic influence, I felt the Witcher as somewhat familiar but not quite. Also, I have a friend in north Poland who always looked more viking then anything else.

@gryzipiorek5520

2 жыл бұрын

Vikings used to travel through Baltic and attack other countries, so there's a big chance that some of their leftovers had an impact on local cultures. Also from what I read, one of polish princesses was married to norsemen

@johnoneil9188

2 жыл бұрын

I also immediately had to think of that story with the Botchling.

@mkfonacier4441

2 жыл бұрын

The baby creature kinda reminded me of the Malaysian Toyol. They’re featured in several horror movies and series like HBO’s Folkore. So cool learning about connections/similarities like these 😋

@bleachedout805

2 жыл бұрын

The Witcher game developers merely based the environment on Poland to give it a unique setting but the vast majority of it's fantastic elements come from Celtic and Scandinavian legends. I don't doubt Slavs have barrowed elements from the Vikings but it's a bit of a pet peeve that so many people are under the impression the lore in those games is from Slavic mythology.

@gigi8219

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking about those unbabtized babies from Dante's Inferno

I would like to see more of this series :) I take interest in many mythologies...

thanks for the info on Vittra, and I will most likely start doing giving warning when I pour something out, great video

I love the fact you had an actual person to talk personally about the folklore. And the narrative voice was quite soothing! I believe all of the creation myths are of one. A snake and a tree. Can you do an episode on the bahamas and the toungue of the ocean? If you look at a satellite map view, yo might see why. I been researching and I have a very big theory on a lot of our world folklore

The Skogsraet's way of stealing one's soul sounds eerily familiar to one of Shedinja's pokedex entries.

Since you're asking for requests, I'd love to hear about cultures that often get overlooked in discussions about mythology, like African countries or Native American tribes

@christinekeyes7098

2 жыл бұрын

Very cool, me too

Thank you so much for this wonderful video. You did an incredible job! Keep up the great work.

So fascinating! Thank you so much!

I can't wait for the next episode.

I really enjoyed this video. It was great to hear some folk tales from one of the Artists.

I love this video! Absolutely the thing I subbed for

That was wonderful, thank you so much for sharing with all the viewers. I think personal family stories like that are so special. I barely remember hearing stories about underground trolls and goblins from my great grandma. I think those stories should be treasured and respected and passed down through the generations.

not a paranormal but a story that haunts me to the very day. Me I and my family went to a place called Tomteland and We got a Tomte Nisse as a guide. The guide shared stories about the land and everyone had a great time asking questions and laughing until a Skogsrå approached from the forest. I still remember to this very day the empty and emotionless mask/face and how she beckoned and even ended up pulling our guide into the forest and then they disappeared... and the guide never appeared again after that, leaving us kids pretty damn shook. The annoying part was that not a single parent even tried to explain what just happened or comfort us. I couldn't even close my eyes for weeks, cause all I could see was that empty face and hear a faint whisper beckoning me to join her in the forest just like the way she did to the guide.

@shadysaar

Жыл бұрын

Were they tryna make a joke ? For a froup of little children? Thats cruel 😢 sorry u had to go through that

I would love to hear about Portugal s mythology!

@vitorzdash

2 жыл бұрын

Yes me too

Love this format🤘🏻

The whole prompt of the video made me click it in less than 30 seconds after I saw it appear . Loved it. In Portugal we don't really have a huge history/story of creatures per se. We have the Dama dos Pés de Cabra ( Lady with Goat Feet). And I truly believe that any others were very much lost to utmost Christian devotion across the time. Priests and Church held immense power here for way too long so we lost a lot of Pagan beliefs along the way. Many were burnt thanks to the idea of witches and communion with the Devil in many forms.

I would be interested in Germanys mythology.

Germany would be awesome to hear about

I love it!! Ireland, France, and Japan please!

Awesome stories! Thank you

There's something that I always wondered in Fairytales how three is the magic number

@berndbernd3464

2 жыл бұрын

the amount of holes

@Cancoillotteman

2 жыл бұрын

I guess because it's a rule of story-telling, even for jokes. Three times allow you to introduce repetition and hence memorization and have an effect after third time, it is found in many cultures. Probably the way human brain works

@Msmargret1

2 жыл бұрын

My dog knows that 1-2-3 precedes the action.

You forgot the Thule. That's the European version of the Kitsune. Also pronounced. Thall, Tull, Thull" Tall, so many spellings and names for that creature. I probably misspelled most of them because I can barely pronounce them. Usually just better to look up the European version of Kitsune.

Please do a video on all types of ghosts! Love this channel!

I loved this one!! 😀 and I think it's awesome to see other channels coming together to help one another out 👍

i would love to know more about Irland and fairies

Thanks I'm doing some Viking inspired story writing and I could use a mythological creatures to draw some inspiration.

Awesome video. I haven't heard of them before.

Beautiful art and fascinating folklore.

Great video! Vidra sounds like the Nisse vi have here in Denmark. oh And i hope you do Denmark maybe not as the next country but soon. :)

I hope someone does a video on the censored/buried history of Orcs

Hey. Great video 😉 I just love all kind of stories about mythical beings. Can you please do One on Portugal's ?

Awh i really liked the guest you had on today. Her work is great and having a person who grew up in the region of the videos subject tell old stories and legends experienced by herself and family just really personalized the video making it to from great to phenomenal. That would be so cool to try including the same thing in other videos of folklore and legends whenever possible

Ah yes Swedish cat-girl, truly a vile beast

Southern or Eastern African Myths... especially their lake monsters!

Loved this. I would love to see Ireland, Scotland, Iceland, Japan....omg so many!

you make me happy! thank you! im glad i found your channel

These must be really really far back, never heard of any of them and I live in Sweden xD

@calus7958

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, These Creatures were well known in Sweden even into The 1900s, Remember "Emil i Lönneberga"? They always talk about Mylings, Ghosts, Maras etc

@rasmus6236

2 жыл бұрын

U dont know näcken? Really?

@struckken1

2 жыл бұрын

@@rasmus6236 den var med i alle vi børn i bullerby. Eller de troede de så en.

I would like to see Russia as the next country i know vary little of there mythology

Very enjoyable video. Cheers.

this channel is awesome I'm so fascinated by these stuff.

I am super stoked! This video makes me so happy! I hear so little and find so little information about Swedish mythological creatures. I have ancient-ish family that came from Sweden. And I wish to return to Sweden one day.

You’d love Native American mythology my dude.

@sapphirII

2 жыл бұрын

As a canadian, I'd love to know more about creatures from where I live. The only one I know is the wendigo.

@arkinyte13

2 жыл бұрын

@@sapphirII The First Nations of Canada have a lot.

@Never_heart

2 жыл бұрын

@@sapphirII and honestly the large majority of midern wendigo depictions are barely related to the real myths and folklore around them

@sapphirII

2 жыл бұрын

@@Never_heart Dr. Emily Zarka did an episode on the wendigo on Monstrum/Storied, and I admit.

I love watching these videos they're so awesome. As soon as this stream on Spotify I'll listen to it.

That is so cool! Love this idea for a series

We never hear anything about the Steppe and if there's not enough then let's go Eastern Europe like Hungary and Romania

A baker's dozen episodes on Native American beliefs, both North and South please!:-) 🖖

Been to Sweden many times. A fantastic place and if you go there and get yourself a local guide to do a forest hike you will absolutely fall in love with Sweden. And don’t worry about getting lost or stuck! Most Swedes are trained from childhood to survive in nature.

Great video! Very insightful for sure! I'd love to learn about Italian Mythos, if that hasn't been explained already.