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Touhou style myths! The Ogbanje (pronounced like Owan-jeh) originate from the Igbo of Nigeria, said to be evil spirits who take the form of children to terrorize often specific families. Obanje itself means “children who come and go”, specifically referring to their main way of terror— being born and dying over and over. These deaths are seen as deliberate and meant to emotionally devastate their families. This children are born with powers as well, They’re bound to a buried talisman, called an iyi-uwa, which keep them linked and able to return to the world repeatedly. Strangely, upon this item’s destruction, they apparently become a normal child with a normal life. Bodies would also be cut apart to try and prevent the spirit from returning, but sometimes it just made it come back baring the scars— what some would call Birthmarks.

It’s thought this creatures tale originates from families who had repeated infant deaths, which could range from genetic conditions to natural factors, and were struggling with the grief. The belief in these deaths being linked to a physical agent and spiritual happening is used to relieve grief and find solace. Priest would often seek out these anchors of the spirit for the family and destroy it to give them hope of a healthy family.

This belief in children who die repeatedly is not limited to the Igbo and was wide spread in many Nigerian tribes in different forms, including the Yoruba’s Abiku, litteraly meaning born to die. However, the Abiku are described as simply selfish and apathetic to their families as compared to the Ogbanjes deliberate malice.

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Touhou style myths! The zombie actually originates from Hatian voodoo, Zombie meaning a person missing half of its being, either its soul or its body (so it covers what we would call a ghost too). It was thought they could only be made and serve a Baron (voodoo god) servant and was considered cruel and evil, since it’s splitting a person in half and enslaving them. In this state, they are completely empty and only exist to serve the one who resurrected them, but eventually they will die again. They could also be freed by feeding them salt.

The existence of such a state carried over from west Africa to slaves in the Caribbean and us, in which black owners/supervisors would weaponize it to prevent slaves from killing themselves, lest they be brought back a husk to slave forever.

The parts about them eating people, needing their head cut off, or biting and spreading their state are a contemporary thing stemming from George rameros 1968 movie night of the living dead, which is pretty much what every modern pop culture zombie is based around. It’s unfortunately another thing from the voodoo religion that has been completely reinvented in the modern.

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Another! The Pixiu is a Chinese chimera of luck. Physically resembling Komainu, they are magnets for wealth and endlessly eat jewels and precious metals. Lady Pixiu (who have 2 horns, compared to the male 1) also ward off bad luck. One of its creation tales is a god beat it so hard it can’t expel anything, thus retaining wealth. They’re really popular in Chinese shops and all sorts of businesses. You’ve probably seen them around if you’ve been to a Chinese establishment

This was specific inspired by a store near my house, who had so many trinkets and bracelets and silly things as well as statues of these creatures

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Still working on Touhou style myths as well! This one’s kinda a personal thing to get me back into it:

The butterfly people of Joplin are a very modern tale, originating from the 2011 f5 tornado that tore through the city. Multiple survivors, mostly children but some adults, reported “butterfly people” flying around during the tornado, protecting them with their bodies and even pulling them from debris and collapsed homes to safety. They appeared to those about to die, protecting them before taking other souls up to heaven. Some attributed this to Christian angels, while others claimed it was the physical bodies of people being thrown by the intense winds. Whatever case, the butterfly became a symbol of protection and safety for the Joplin community following, with murals and statues of them appearing through out the city, as well as its rebirth following, though the Joplin scar (the infamous path of the tornado through the city) still remains.

I say this is personal due to having a bunch of family in Joplin who were part of the rebuilding efforts. I remember going to visit my uncle a few months after the tornado and most of the city just being debris and houses barely standing. His own was still being repaired. I really don’t like people portraying it like some epic movie scene or analog horror because these things really did happen. You never know who’s seeing your phonk edit of the tornado and if they found a human leg following that tornado. Alas.

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