#fear frog

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Voting ended onMay 28, 2024

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Looking for a Fear Frog!

I got a duplicate Terror Toad drop while I’m still in need of a Fear Frog. Does anyone want to trade? message me here or on FR, TuxedoFloracat #49003

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Voting ended onMar 3, 2024

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Fear Frogs

One of the more endearing beliefs in Cykloism are (literal translation) Fear-Eating Frogs. Personal bias, but I find them cute

The first time we ran into the words rana comemiedo (sometimes sapo comemiedo) were in Spanish documents from the Chichimeca War. There are accounts of a particular group in Zacatecas ceremoniously feeding their warriors frog legs before battle. To paraphrase, one observer said the purpose was because the frogs, blessed by a god, would sit in a person's stomach and could eat the "centipedes of fear".

Currently, we're sifting our way through works during the Spanish colonialism period and have found similar accounts of fear frogs during their time in the Philippines. We have a lot of theories involving the Philippines, but they require a whole section of their own.

The only myth mentioning fear frogs is in Volume Three. Here we meet a kerubin with no name in charge of a very deep pond full of frogs. These frogs are given to sleeping children to swallow once they are too old for childish fears. They act as a sort of guardian angel throughout a human's life by trying to eat all of Fear's centipedes. We are never given a description of fear frogs, but there are some frogs painted on the gilded pages of Volume One we believe are meant to represent them.

Admin's Notes: Personally, I think the kerubin Nebula meets might either be named Bravery or work for Bravery. A lot of Tragedy's children have benevolent counterparts, but Fear's opposite is never mentioned. This is one of my favourite myths and it's interesting how influential one minor creature in a myth can be on whole groups of people.