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What's the scary folk lore from your culture? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by spez@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Every culture/region has stories and myths about the things existing there. What are the ones you find the most spooky and/or interesting?

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[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunyip

If you were worried about dingos and drop bears when coming to Australia then you don't want to know about the bunyip.

It'll fuck you up.

[–] espentan@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Looks can truly be deceiving He looks straight up friendly, wearing his suspenders and all:

[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

There's so many conflicting reports the obit consensus is "scary water thing".

[–] BigBootyBoy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

So dangerous nobody even knows what it looks like