#arabic folklore

[worrywyrms]

al-mi’raj

[inkingimpsart]

Djinn Series

Illustrations done with heavy inspiration of the djinn/jinn of Middle Eastern folklore and legend.

[lucypookz]

No matter what, just ignore the lights.

And also the hand because I know I anatomically fxcked it up.. bruh.

Abu Fanous is a character/demon from arabic folklore. He lures people who get lost in the desert to the lights so they feel like there's someone out there who can help them, but no, he misleads people with the moving lanterns just for the people to notice the lanterns disappeared and they will too. The entity himself doesn't kill people, he rather lures them to their doom. He doesn't show by himself, he doesn't show his true form. Abu Fanous can be translated as "father of the lantern" or "father of the light".

This is my Abu Fanous OC, called Abaraz

Abaraz is Abu Fanous from Saudi Arabia. He can conjure lanterns with a snap of fingers (more like claws). Abaraz is 7'2 (2,18 m) tall and has black claws, his body covered in bandages, hiding them with a thobe. His eyes are ruby red. Lantern, which is his head, actually isn't connected to a neck. It's just laying/levitating there on the top of the thobe. Also I have to mention that he can levitate with his whole body as well.

That one horror Roblox game literally helped me to find out about Abu Fanous' existence (or does he exist? Or is he a fiction?)

Yuh that's basically all I wanted to share 🔥💯

Also I am not from Arab countries, I'm European, I just find this really interesting and cool! ^^

[hecatesdelights]

Ghouls were a type of Arabic mythological creature that were hideous wraiths, haunting cemeteries at night, and stalking humans to consume their flesh.

[heynoninonimous]

Into The Fae - Episode 4 - Fachan and Nasnas

It’s a double episode this week! Join us as we discover the mystery that is the Fachan and their djinn counterpart, the Nasnas.

Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/into-the-fae/id1682777239

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4M8Hzb2P85YzitfGdlSmzt

Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/1065639

Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Into-The-Fae-Podcast/B0C12PLK3K?action_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp

Intothefaepodcast.com

[rfscaveart]

Almiraj sketch

The Almiraj is a mythical creature resembling a one-horned hare or rabbit, mentioned in medieval Arabic literature. The name appears in a version of the legend of Iskandar who after defeating the dragon of Dragon Island in the Indian Ocean, obtained the animal as gift from the inhabitants. The creature is also said to cause all animals that sets sight on it to flee. The creature also appears nameless, is given other variant names, or situated elsewhere, depending on the text or manuscript source.

[godgallery]

Abd al-Hasan Al-Isfahani, Kitab al-Bulhan (Book of Wonders) (14th century)

[laurasimonsdaughter]

Vampire Babies

Even though it makes no sense to have an undead creature be able to bear or conceive a child, modern vampire fiction is very fond of the idea. Considering most of them build from Western European lore, there really isn’t any folkloric basis to have this happen, but in other parts of the world there are definitely vampires that can have kids.

First of all, there are “living vampires” who presumably would be able to have children the normal way, like the Obayifo from Ashanti legend, the Ramanga from Madagascar, the Talamaur from Vanuatu, the Moroii from Romania, and the Danag from the Phillipines. But there are also legends that particularly involve vampires having children. They are basically split in two: vampires that can impregnate living women and female vampires that are able to live as humans:

Probably the most famous “child of a vampire” is the Dhampir, from Slavic folklore (sometimes also called a Vampijerovic). This was usually the child of a male vampire with a living woman. According to some legends because a vampire would visit his wife (well, widow) one more time before being driven into the night by bloodlust. When we see modern vampire stories where half-vampires can be conceived, they are usually based very loosely on this lore. Sometimes incorporating the Serbian belief that these half-vampires were the only ones able to see and therefore hunt a vampire.

In Romania the male Nosferatu is able to impregnate living women. The children will be born covered in hair and either become witches or living vampires, called Moroii. The Nosferatu has all kinds of powers typical vampires do not have, he can make men impotent and women infertile for instance. If they so much as looked as a pregnant woman, her baby would surely become a vampire, unless she took care to eat enough salt to ward off evil.

The Aswang is a female vampire from the Philippines who is a normal human during the day, but as soon as night falls she uses a special ointment to take on her vampire form. She can have and raise children, while drinking the blood of other people’s children at night.

The Algul (where English gets the word Ghoul from) is an Arabic creature (usually categorized as a jinn) that lurks in cemeteries, but hungers for human blood, luring people into the dark to feed on them. They can take on a human form and live normally during the day and are therefore able to bear children. They barely eat though, preferring to wait for nightfall when they can slink back to a grave to feed on flesh.

In Malaysia there is a very tragic vampiric pair: the Languir and the Pontianak. When a woman dies in childbirth she may turn into a Langsuir, beautiful, but undead vampire that can fly and drinks the blood of children. Her child also becomes a vampire (sometimes called a Pontianak or Mati-anak), equally thirsty for blood. The woman can be saved, by cutting her nails and stuffing the hole in her neck through which she drinks blood with her long hair. After that she can live like a human again and even get more children, but she may never dance or be joyful again, or she will instantly turn back and flee. A way to save the child I cannot even find, but both can be laid to rest with a ritual involving needles and glass marbles.

So there you go! Want vampire babies? Now you know what lore to look to~