What do the Stories Say?

A collection Of History, Mytholgy, Fairy tales & Folk-tales.....

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Laurel Long ~ Illustration from “The Lady & the Lion: A Brothers Grimm Tale”

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Monsters! - Nicola L Robinson Illustration Billy Goats Gruff, Troll Bridge

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Adventure Begins Again!

I am back again.. Sorry for not being active in this account... From today on wards you will find lots of stories on history, mythology fairy tales and folk tales right here..

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This time Real portraits of Japanese warriors before the 19th century demise . These portraits are thought to have been taken in the late 1860s....The Samurai had long been Japans highest social caste Shortly afterwards, the Samurai was abolished by Emperor Meishi... Enjoy!!!!

Though I am unable to get their identity and status in Samurai class...... But I am really glad to find these pictures...........

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The trouble with being an angel on Earth ---- that he was a man. He got hungry. He thirsted. And for this woman his body and soul ached. The trick was to will his mind, and ignore the Earthly sensations ----- as he'd done so many times with pain and trouble. Desire was no different, a call of the flesh. He could divide himself-acknowledge the lust and act on intellect. But see, the trouble with being an angel was ---- he was still a man.....

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Furaribi

This yokai is a bird-like creature. I kind of want one as a pet… except for the whole flames and vengeful curse thing…

Furaribi appears in a number of old yokai picture scrolls as well as in Toriyama Sekien’sGazu Hyakki Yagyō. It appears as a bird-like creature wreathed in flame, floating about aimlessly in the night sky. While it has the body of a bird, its face resembles a mix between a dog and the Hindu god Garuda. It is a type of hi-no-tama, or fireball yokai, and is said to be born from the remains of a soul which has not properly passed on to the next life, most likely due to not receiving the proper ceremonial services after dying. In Japan you don’t just get a funeral, you have a number of services commemorating your death and praying for your soul which repeat on certain days, months, and years after your death — missing even one of these could spell doom for your soul (so the priests tell us…).

One legend about Furaribi comes from Toyama city in Toyama prefecture. In the late 16th century, this area was ruled by a samurai named Sassa Narimasa. Narimasa had very beautiful concubine named Sayuri, who was not well liked by the other female servants in Narimasa’s innermost circle. One day, these women conspired against Sayuri and started a rumor that she had cheated on Narimasa with one of his men. Narimasa, in a fit of jealous rage, murdered Sayuri, then took her down to the Jinzū river, hung her corpse from a tree, then proceeded to carve it into pieces with his sword. On top of that, he captured Sayuri’s entire extended family, 18 people in all, and executed them in the same manner. Afterwards, their tortured souls aimlessly wandered the riverbanks every night as furaribi.

It is said if you go down to the riverside and call out “Sayuri, Sayuri!” late at night, the floating, severed head of a woman will appear, pulling and tearing at her hair in a vengeful fury. As for Sassa Narimasa, he was later defeated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Some have attributed his defeat by Hideyoshi to the vengeful curse of Sayuri’s ghost.

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Japanese Scary Woman#3 Kuchisake-onna

Kuchisake-onna is a great Halloween yokai! She’s yet another one of Japan’s cursed-woman-type of yokai, but she has also evolved from an ancient ghost tale to a modern urban legend.

The original story takes place during the Heian period, and says that a jealous samurai was married to a very, very beautiful but vain woman. He believed that she had been unfaithful to him, and attacked her, slitting her face from ear to ear, and saying, “Who will find you beautiful now!?”

Afterwards we move into the urban legend. A ghostly woman can be seen wandering the streets in the night mist. She wears a surgical mask (which isn’t uncommon at all in Japan), and approaches a stranger asking, “Am I beautiful?” If the stranger answers yes, she removes the mask, revealing her mutilated face and asks threateningly, “Even now?” If the stranger answers, “No,” she slits his face with scissors to resemble her own. If he answers, “Yes,” she follows him home and murders him at the doorstep to his house.

Some say that if you answer, “So-so,” she’ll be confused for a few moments — enough to run away.

There were a number of kuchisake-onna sightings in the 20th century. Apparently, in the 70’s, a woman who was chasing little children was hit by a car, and her face was ripped open from ear to ear. After that accident, a large panic of sightings happened. Other variations of the urban legend have to deal with a woman butchered by plastic surgery. In any case, it’s a pretty scary yokai, and another one of my favorites. Enjoy the picture!

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Japanese Scary Woman#2   Nure-onna(Wet Woman)

Literally “wet woman,” nure-onna is something you should hope never to run into. Normally she is a solitary yokai, but occasionally it is said she works together with one of the crab-like ushi-oni. She’s a clever shapeshifter and disguises herself as a beautiful woman in need to help — usually carrying a baby, waiting by a lake or a river or the sea, and sometimes baby-less and combing her hair by herself. When an unsuspecting human comes by and offers to help her, or disturbs her, she begins her attack! If she is carrying a baby, she will ask her would-be savior to carry it for her. Then, the baby will grow heavier and heavier until the human is unable to move under its weight. Examining the bundle will reveal it to be only a pile of rocks wrapped in clothes, but by the time her victim realizes this, it is too late. She will have revealed her true form: a huge, snake-like body up to 300 meters long, and a long serpentine tongue! The final blow comes from her tongue, which she uses to drain all the blood from her victim.

So let that be a warning to you: never to offer kindness to a lone Japanese woman in distress!

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Japanese Scary Woman#1          Hone-onna (Bone-Woman)

Anyone who has seen Japanese horror movies knows that Japan makes the best scary women of all. Hone-onna, which means “bone woman,” is a kind of Japanese succubus. Her favourite modus operandi is to take the form of a beautiful woman and lure a man to bed with her. Then she reveals her skeletal form and sucks his soul away. Pretty freaky, huh?

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Death Gods

SHINIGAMI ---- The “death god”  - an entity in Japanese folklore that is responsible for watching over people at their appointed time of death and then guiding their spirit to be judged in the underworld. In this respect, Shinigami are related to the Western concept of the Grim Reaper. Though the Grim Reaper is a single entity, but shinigami which are often imagined as multiple entities working together.

Kalma is the Finnish Goddess of Death and Decay. Her name means "The Stench of Corpses”

The jackal-headed god Anubis is closely aligned with mummification and the afterlife in Egyptian mythology ....

Mictecacihuatl ('Lady of the Dead') is the Aztec Goddess of the dead. She rules over Mictlan, the underworld, with her husband, Mictlantecuhtli. Mictlan is the lowest level of the underworld (there are nine levels), and is where those who died non-violent deaths go. Mictecacihuatl escorts those who have died to their families, and watches over their bodies. and is especially honored on November 2, El Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead.

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When My heart Admires the Marvels of Sunset & Beauty of the moon, my Soul rejoices in the Worship of the Creator

Lady-Of-The-Lake

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“If The Sky Could Dream, It Would Dream Of Dragons.......”

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In Irish mythology Nechtan is the God of water and keeper of the scared “Well Of Knowledge.

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Kelpie: The Dark Water Horse

In mythology, the Kelpie is described as A shape-shifting water spirit inhabiting the lochs and pools of Scotland. It has usually been described as appearing as a horse, but is able to adopt human form. . It’s skin is said to be like that of a seal, smooth but as cold as death. Kelpies are said to transform into beautiful women to lure men into their traps. They created illusions to keep themselves hidden, keeping only their eyes above water to scout the surface.

The fable of the Kelpie varies by region. Some versions of myth describe the Kelpie as "green as glass with a black mane and tail that curves over its back like a wheel" or even in human form, they are always dripping wet and/or have water weeds in their hair.

The water horse is a common form of the Kelpie, to lure humans, especially children, into the water and eat them. The water horse would encourage children to ride on its back, and once its victims fell into its trap, the water horse's skin would become adhesive and the horse would drag the children into the water and devouring them—except the heart or liver. 

“A common Scottish tale is the story of nine children lured onto a Kelpie's back, while a tenth kept his distance. The Kelpie chased the tenth child, but he escaped. Another more gruesome variation on this tale is that the tenth child simply stroked the Kelpie's nose but, when his hand stuck to it, he took a knife from his pocket and cut his own hand off, cauterizing it with wood from a nearby fire. The child saves himself but is unable to help his friends, as they are pulled underwater with the Kelpie.”

A folk tale from Barra tells a STORY OF A lonely Kelpie that transforms itself into a handsome young man to woo a pretty young girl it was determined to take for its wife. But the girl recognises the young man as a Kelpie and removes his silver necklace (his bridle) while he sleeps. The Kelpie immediately reverts to its equine form, and the girl takes it home to her father's farm, where it is put to work for a year. At the end of that time the girl rides the Kelpie to consult a wise man, who tells her to return the silver necklace. Once again transformed into the handsome young man she had first met the wise man asks the Kelpie whether if given the choice it would choose to be a Kelpie or a mortal. The Kelpie in turn asks the girl whether, if he were a man, she would agree to be his wife. She confirms that she would, after which the Kelpie chooses to become a mortal man, and the pair are married.

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“A Religion Without A Goddess Is Halfway To Atheism”

“The Norns” (Old Norse: norn, plural: nornir) in Norse mythology are female beings who rule the destiny of gods and men, and are comparable to the Moirai (also called "The Fates") in Greek mythology. The three most important norns were Urðr (Wyrd), Verðandi and Skuld. Also described as the three powerful maiden giantesses (Jotuns) whose arrival from Jötunheimr ended the golden age of the gods.

“Goddess Wohpe”, known as the “White Buffalo Woman” in Native American goddess mythology.

“Airmid” is the Goddess of Herb-lore and Herbal Healing in Irish mythology. She is the daughter of Dian Cecht, the Tuatha De Danaan's    ( a race of supernaturally-gifted people in Irish mythology ) head healer. She knows all the lore, uses, and properties of every herb. She also guarded the “Well of Slaine”.

“Goddess Mama Killa”, in Inca mythology was the third power and goddess of the moon. She was the goddess of marriage and menstrual cycle, also considered as the defender of women. Mama Killa was known as "Mother Moon", and was goddess of the moon.

“Yemaya”, Goddess of the Ocean, Moon in Yoruba mythology.......Holding a turtle in the air as if praying in the deep blue sea; dolphins swim and pelicans fly around her; her skin is warm, radiant & glowing with the full moon behind her; her head is adorned with an oblong crown and her hair, embellished with seashells; her tail, curled up, is sequin-like silvery blue....She is often regarded as “Mother of Water”.

High in the mountains among the craggy rocks are the caves where dwells “Mari”, supreme goddess of Basque mythology. She is depicted as a woman in a goat. She is sometimes shown as riding through the sky in a chariot pulled by horses or rams. Statues of her usually feature a full moon behind her head. Most often, she is seen as a beautiful woman seated at the mouth of one of her caves, combing her long, lustrous hair with a golden comb.

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Deities of China

Nü Kua is the Chinese divine fore mother of humans, Who repaired the sky and invented marriage. Some tales make Her the wife of Her older brother, Fu-hsi, one of the first sovereigns, whom She later succeeded. She was said to have created humans from yellow clay.

Ni Tou; is well-known in Chinese culture as the guard from the Hell. 

Er Lang is one of the heavenly beings with a third eye that can see very far. He has the ability to transform into 81 different objects. 

Kuan Yin - Goddess of love, compassion and healing .........

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Beautiful Kitsune Paintings.......................