#scythemantis

[kombuchaclock]

A redesign of @bogleech's Buffume, based on a sketch he sent me, for the Mortasheen TTRPG!

[figdays]

Velvet Worm Pin // scythemantis

[siryl]

I Still Wish for Peace

I’ll delete the posts about your drama if you delete your relevant posts and put up an apology and correct information so your followers understand that Noah and his allies are innocent of the rumored misconduct.

[glyptolite]

Symbols for the thirteen types of Mortasheen.

[figdays]

“Mothman” Pin // scythemantis

[lethecreator]

Killing two birds with one stone here! This is both a Halloween picture as well as a birthday gift for the astoundingly brilliant @bogleech! Kinda weird that this is only my second piece of fanart I've done for him, considering I hold him in such high regard. This is hardly even a tenth of the cast for his currently ongoing interactive webcomic, Awful Hospital: Seriously the Worst Ever. If I had to sum up the general feel and atmosphere of the story, I guess you could say it's a bit like a slightly more mature Courage the Cowardly Dog. Spooky, zany, and emotional. Happy birthday Mr. Wojcik! And happy Halloween to all!

[siryl]

"Wendigo" and "Windigo" are the common Anglicized names for a group of malign creatures in the native folklore of northern North America.

To the Algonquins, the Wìdjigò was a manlike monster that fed on the flesh of travellers in the remote wilderness.  It might look like the walking frozen corpse of a starved man, or a hairy beast with fangs and claws.  It sometimes had owl-like eyes, and its name is similar to words for "owl" in the Algonquin language family.  A man became a Wìdjigò (either through abrupt transformation or gradual corruption) by committing the sin of cannibalism.

The Wintiko of Ojibwa oral tradition was a giant man-eater made of ice.  At its core was the human it used to be.  Rather than just preying on isolated travellers, there are stories of it attacking villages.  Children who ran away from their tribe ran the risk of becoming these monsters, and the myth was invoked to keep them under control.

The Cree living in southeastern Manitoba used a variant of the name, Wihtikow, to describe a very different man-eater.  This animal was said to have a scaly body and the legs of either a bear or an even-toed ungulate.  To this day, some people believe Berens Lake is home to a population of giant alligators.

There was reportedly a Wendigo variant in the far north that would frighten but not attack.  This Wendigo's key feature was that it was never seen.  It stalked lone travellers, always managing to move out of their view when they turned to look.  In this way it resembled the Hidebehind of American frontier lore.

These are probably just a tiny fraction of the permutations of this wide-ranging myth.

Illustration by Jonathan Wojcik for an article about underused Halloween costumes.

[furbearingbrick]

"GET YOUR FILTHY PAWS OFF ME YOU DAMN DIRTY GHOST WITH A SPINNING PUMPKIN FOR A HEAD"

-Scythemantis, in his Monster Party review